Tag: reading
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Autumn: some reflections , and some books
It’s once again autumn here in Johannesburg. It’s also mid-semester break, which can sometimes be the only time I get in the year to make work more or less uninterrupted. These seven odd days have proved to be golden in the past years; I’ve gotten most of my productive work done in them for the…
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I read banned books
First they will come for your books, then they will come for your art. An interesting Guardian article came into my inbox recently, ‘US public school ban 10 000 books in most recent academic year.’ [1], Apparently, US children and young adults are not allowed to learn to assess for themselves the difference between wrong and…