<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post115952709026100243..comments</id><updated>2011-07-13T16:13:18.645-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Comments on Silliman&#39;s Blog: </title><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/feeds/comments/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115952709026100243/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/09/sony-reader-will-start-out-october-1st.html'/><link rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/"/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>21</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116013983181204353</id><published>2006-10-06T09:03:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-10-06T09:03:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Sorry Ron, but you&#39;re not blocked in China anymore...</title><summary type='text'>Sorry Ron, but you&#39;re not blocked in China anymore.  The PRC seems to think blogspot safe as milk.  They still block Jacket, though.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115952709026100243/comments/default/116013983181204353'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115952709026100243/comments/default/116013983181204353'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/09/sony-reader-will-start-out-october-1st.html?showComment=1160139780000#c116013983181204353' title=''/><author><name>David</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/11178475324815529819</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/09/sony-reader-will-start-out-october-1st.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115952709026100243' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/115952709026100243' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1663033531"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 06, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115973143710364967</id><published>2006-10-01T15:37:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-10-01T15:37:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Dude, you and your blog were mentioned in the Satu...</title><summary type='text'>Dude,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt; you and your blog were mentioned in the Saturday Vancouver Sun literary column! So weird!</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115952709026100243/comments/default/115973143710364967'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115952709026100243/comments/default/115973143710364967'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/09/sony-reader-will-start-out-october-1st.html?showComment=1159731420000#c115973143710364967' title=''/><author><name>Weldon Gardner Hunter</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/17678298251541018260</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/09/sony-reader-will-start-out-october-1st.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115952709026100243' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/115952709026100243' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-716702053"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 01, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115971333816130881</id><published>2006-10-01T10:35:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-10-01T10:35:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I so enjoy poets who talk about their Suess histor...</title><summary type='text'>I so enjoy poets who talk about their Suess history.  Happens all the time you know.  Stock answers for stock questions.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;The Kurdish question and the Anfal.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;What exactly was the Anfal?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Hmm.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I think the poet and her description is cleansed of many factors including the cooperation of Kurdish Chieftains within the governmental apparatus of Saddam which is a </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115952709026100243/comments/default/115971333816130881'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115952709026100243/comments/default/115971333816130881'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/09/sony-reader-will-start-out-october-1st.html?showComment=1159713300000#c115971333816130881' title=''/><author><name>Lady Jane</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04555982712708881025</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/09/sony-reader-will-start-out-october-1st.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115952709026100243' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/115952709026100243' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1542572767"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 01, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115963387860960957</id><published>2006-09-30T12:31:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-09-30T12:31:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>i just read philip pullman&#39;s *his dark materials* ...</title><summary type='text'>i just read philip pullman&#39;s *his dark materials* trilogy and liked that too. (but then, i certainly can&#39;t give that to the kids since it&#39;s gnostic, basically, and very antichurch.) ostensibly that&#39;s for young adults, but the only characteristics that qualify it (that i could pinpoint, anyway) would be the chasteness of the characters (tho there are 2 love stories) and a certain structural </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115952709026100243/comments/default/115963387860960957'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115952709026100243/comments/default/115963387860960957'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/09/sony-reader-will-start-out-october-1st.html?showComment=1159633860000#c115963387860960957' title=''/><author><name>shanna</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/17706867356078179503</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/09/sony-reader-will-start-out-october-1st.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115952709026100243' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/115952709026100243' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-927990281"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 30, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115962834825554162</id><published>2006-09-30T10:59:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-09-30T10:59:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>David, I think my parents got Catcher for me for m...</title><summary type='text'>David, I think my parents got Catcher for me for my 12th birthday.  I understood it, but my friends (whom I read parts to surreptitiously after school, causing laughter and consternation) probably didn&#39;t.  By this time I was reading Steinbeck&#39;s short novels, too--Cannery Row, The Moon Is Down, Burning Bright, In Dubious Battle, Of Mice and Men, The Long Valley, as well as Grapes.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115952709026100243/comments/default/115962834825554162'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115952709026100243/comments/default/115962834825554162'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/09/sony-reader-will-start-out-october-1st.html?showComment=1159628340000#c115962834825554162' title=''/><author><name>Curtis Faville</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/01813159652010352331</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/09/sony-reader-will-start-out-october-1st.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115952709026100243' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/115952709026100243' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 30, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115962455305159619</id><published>2006-09-30T09:55:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-09-30T09:55:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Hurray for Babar!Children&#39;s literature rules!</title><summary type='text'>Hurray for Babar!&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Children&#39;s literature rules!</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115952709026100243/comments/default/115962455305159619'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115952709026100243/comments/default/115962455305159619'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/09/sony-reader-will-start-out-october-1st.html?showComment=1159624500000#c115962455305159619' title=''/><author><name>Kirby Olson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05952289700191142943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/09/sony-reader-will-start-out-october-1st.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115952709026100243' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/115952709026100243' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 30, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115962162038565708</id><published>2006-09-30T09:07:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-09-30T09:07:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>aw, i&#39;m just teasing. i remember a million good bo...</title><summary type='text'>aw, i&#39;m just teasing. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;i remember a million good books from being a kid, but i am not v. current with poetry for children, though i am interested in it.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;kids do love ogden nash (as do i) and ted geissel (as was already mentioned) and don marquis (archy &amp; mehitabel), etc. but i don&#39;t know much about *current* children&#39;s writing.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;the last poem i read by john updike was a </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115952709026100243/comments/default/115962162038565708'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115952709026100243/comments/default/115962162038565708'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/09/sony-reader-will-start-out-october-1st.html?showComment=1159621620000#c115962162038565708' title=''/><author><name>shanna</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/17706867356078179503</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/09/sony-reader-will-start-out-october-1st.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115952709026100243' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/115952709026100243' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-927990281"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 30, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115958460814238822</id><published>2006-09-29T22:50:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-09-29T22:50:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Norton Juster&#39;s The Phantom Tollbooth (1961) -- re...</title><summary type='text'>Norton Juster&#39;s &lt;A HREF=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Phantom_Tollbooth&quot; REL=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Phantom Tollbooth&lt;/A&gt; (1961) -- read aloud to our class in school, circa age 8 I think -- had a big impact on me.  The following year, we heard Pearl Buck&#39;s &lt;I&gt;The Good Earth&lt;/I&gt;.  Prob. by the year after that I read Salinger&#39;s &lt;I&gt;Catcher in the Rye&lt;/I&gt; (but didn&#39;t understand some of it).&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115952709026100243/comments/default/115958460814238822'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115952709026100243/comments/default/115958460814238822'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/09/sony-reader-will-start-out-october-1st.html?showComment=1159584600000#c115958460814238822' title=''/><author><name>david raphael israel</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/07535589040322113419</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/09/sony-reader-will-start-out-october-1st.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115952709026100243' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/115952709026100243' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1441140986"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 29, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115958429531381157</id><published>2006-09-29T22:44:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-09-29T22:44:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Babar is King!</title><summary type='text'>Babar is King!</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115952709026100243/comments/default/115958429531381157'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115952709026100243/comments/default/115958429531381157'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/09/sony-reader-will-start-out-october-1st.html?showComment=1159584240000#c115958429531381157' title=''/><author><name>Curtis Faville</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/01813159652010352331</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/09/sony-reader-will-start-out-october-1st.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115952709026100243' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/115952709026100243' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 29, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115956747826517149</id><published>2006-09-29T18:04:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-09-29T18:04:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Lear is King!</title><summary type='text'>Lear is King!</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115952709026100243/comments/default/115956747826517149'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115952709026100243/comments/default/115956747826517149'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/09/sony-reader-will-start-out-october-1st.html?showComment=1159567440000#c115956747826517149' title=''/><author><name>Kirby Olson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05952289700191142943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/09/sony-reader-will-start-out-october-1st.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115952709026100243' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/115952709026100243' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 29, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115956722970245519</id><published>2006-09-29T18:00:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-09-29T18:00:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115952709026100243/comments/default/115956722970245519'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115952709026100243/comments/default/115956722970245519'/><author><name>phaneronoemikon</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/08430230355065457354</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/09/sony-reader-will-start-out-october-1st.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115952709026100243' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/115952709026100243' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name='blogger.contentRemoved' value='true'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1411460047"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 29, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115956586369389505</id><published>2006-09-29T17:37:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-09-29T17:37:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Shanna, where does the sarcasm come from?Your post...</title><summary type='text'>Shanna, where does the sarcasm come from?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Your post implies that all children&#39;s literature is harmless.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;The problem is that most of it is sludge.  Neither dangerous nor affecting.   Nor memorable.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I think, given the plethora of it, we should deal from preference, rather than restriction.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;What do you remember from your childhood?</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115952709026100243/comments/default/115956586369389505'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115952709026100243/comments/default/115956586369389505'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/09/sony-reader-will-start-out-october-1st.html?showComment=1159565820000#c115956586369389505' title=''/><author><name>Curtis Faville</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/01813159652010352331</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/09/sony-reader-will-start-out-october-1st.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115952709026100243' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/115952709026100243' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 29, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115956154861980235</id><published>2006-09-29T16:25:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-09-29T16:25:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Please list some condescending children&#39;s writer t...</title><summary type='text'>Please list some condescending children&#39;s writer types. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I would like to be sure my nieces and nephews never get hold of their books, by burning them (the books) if necessary.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115952709026100243/comments/default/115956154861980235'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115952709026100243/comments/default/115956154861980235'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/09/sony-reader-will-start-out-october-1st.html?showComment=1159561500000#c115956154861980235' title=''/><author><name>shanna</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/17706867356078179503</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/09/sony-reader-will-start-out-october-1st.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115952709026100243' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/115952709026100243' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-927990281"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 29, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115955942495659868</id><published>2006-09-29T15:50:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-09-29T15:50:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Sorry, you&#39;re right, Steven, I forgot it&#39;s for a p...</title><summary type='text'>Sorry, you&#39;re right, Steven, I forgot it&#39;s for a poet and not a prose-writer.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Actually, any really good light verse practitioner is better than the condescending &quot;children&#39;s writer&quot; types.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Most any intelligent child of six should be able to understand Updike, McGinley, Nash, &amp;c.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Who needs Lear when we have Nash?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;In fact, most light verse really is more </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115952709026100243/comments/default/115955942495659868'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115952709026100243/comments/default/115955942495659868'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/09/sony-reader-will-start-out-october-1st.html?showComment=1159559400000#c115955942495659868' title=''/><author><name>Curtis Faville</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/01813159652010352331</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/09/sony-reader-will-start-out-october-1st.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115952709026100243' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/115952709026100243' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 29, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115955077956458640</id><published>2006-09-29T13:26:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-09-29T13:26:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Rowling is a novelist, not a poet, so popular or n...</title><summary type='text'>Rowling is a novelist, not a poet, so popular or not, she wouldn&#39;t really be in line for a poet laureate title. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;And the link to &quot;Beating film critics&quot; leads to a &quot;page not found.&quot;  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I love stories of long-lost but now found poems, a la the one about the Robert Frost poem.   The media seems to love them to, as there always seems to be one or two every year.   These stories  </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115952709026100243/comments/default/115955077956458640'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115952709026100243/comments/default/115955077956458640'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/09/sony-reader-will-start-out-october-1st.html?showComment=1159550760000#c115955077956458640' title=''/><author><name>Steven Fama</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04378273134042527425</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/09/sony-reader-will-start-out-october-1st.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115952709026100243' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/115952709026100243' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1945919831"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 29, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115954948121166962</id><published>2006-09-29T13:04:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-09-29T13:04:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>or, if we might nominate a woman (ahem) naomi shih...</title><summary type='text'>or, if we might nominate a woman (ahem) naomi shihab nye has written lots of &lt;A HREF=&quot;http://www.harpercollinschildrens.com/HarperChildrens/Kids/AuthorsAndIllustrators/ContributorDetail.aspx?CId=15255&quot; REL=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;children&#39;s poetry.&lt;/A&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;anyway, i think it&#39;s a good idea to have one. why not. (i live in brooklyn for 10 yrs and have never heard of this fellow, but i also don&#39;t have any </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115952709026100243/comments/default/115954948121166962'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115952709026100243/comments/default/115954948121166962'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/09/sony-reader-will-start-out-october-1st.html?showComment=1159549440000#c115954948121166962' title=''/><author><name>shanna</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/17706867356078179503</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/09/sony-reader-will-start-out-october-1st.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115952709026100243' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/115952709026100243' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-927990281"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 29, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115954198952036068</id><published>2006-09-29T10:59:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-09-29T10:59:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Well, if popularity’s the measure, then surely J.K...</title><summary type='text'>Well, if popularity’s the measure, then surely J.K. Rowling is the candidate of choice.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Then, if we’re not restricting to living authors, how about Tolkien, or E.B.White, or Walt Disney (the Mouse)?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Surely they all have more weight than this guy from Brooklyn!</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115952709026100243/comments/default/115954198952036068'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115952709026100243/comments/default/115954198952036068'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/09/sony-reader-will-start-out-october-1st.html?showComment=1159541940000#c115954198952036068' title=''/><author><name>Curtis Faville</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/01813159652010352331</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/09/sony-reader-will-start-out-october-1st.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115952709026100243' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/115952709026100243' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 29, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115954143836631102</id><published>2006-09-29T10:50:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-09-29T10:50:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>oh no, lost gram parsons?! that&#39;s a shame. (dr. se...</title><summary type='text'>oh no, lost gram parsons?! that&#39;s a shame. (dr. seuss was the first poet i loved. i blame him for it all.)</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115952709026100243/comments/default/115954143836631102'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115952709026100243/comments/default/115954143836631102'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/09/sony-reader-will-start-out-october-1st.html?showComment=1159541400000#c115954143836631102' title=''/><author><name>shanna</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/17706867356078179503</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/09/sony-reader-will-start-out-october-1st.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115952709026100243' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/115952709026100243' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-927990281"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 29, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115954031499946434</id><published>2006-09-29T10:31:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-09-29T10:31:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Re Shel Silverstein, I was sticking with the livin...</title><summary type='text'>Re Shel Silverstein, I was sticking with the living, otherwise I&#39;d&#39;ve suggested Ted Geissel (Dr. Seuss).&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;I&gt;All Things Considered &lt;/I&gt; did a great piece on Silverstein the other day, on how his nephew (and executor) found four boxes of tapes that appeared to be labeled as very early recordings (never released &amp; &quot;lost&quot;) of Gram Parsons that Silverstein had. They turned out instead to have</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115952709026100243/comments/default/115954031499946434'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115952709026100243/comments/default/115954031499946434'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/09/sony-reader-will-start-out-october-1st.html?showComment=1159540260000#c115954031499946434' title=''/><author><name>Ron</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/09250950725876683923</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/09/sony-reader-will-start-out-october-1st.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115952709026100243' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/115952709026100243' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-660918411"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 29, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115953955897088495</id><published>2006-09-29T10:19:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-09-29T10:19:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>A poet laureate for children and this missed Senda...</title><summary type='text'>A poet laureate for children and this missed Sendak? Add Shel Silverstein to that list.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115952709026100243/comments/default/115953955897088495'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115952709026100243/comments/default/115953955897088495'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/09/sony-reader-will-start-out-october-1st.html?showComment=1159539540000#c115953955897088495' title=''/><author><name>Ted Burke</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/16610296721891201100</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://www.tedburke.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/images.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/09/sony-reader-will-start-out-october-1st.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115952709026100243' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/115952709026100243' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1368526798"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 29, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115953869216303860</id><published>2006-09-29T10:04:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-09-29T10:04:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Ron --about the Book Festival, if you read the blu...</title><summary type='text'>Ron --&lt;BR/&gt;about the Book Festival, if you read the blurb above the roster, the press release notes that Y.Y. is now a professor in Tulsa.&lt;BR/&gt;But what gets me about this press release text (besides saying Donald Hall will give his reading at &quot;12:00 a.m.&quot;) is the failure to give Dana Gioia&#39;s first name anywhere; he&#39;s always just &quot;Chairman Gioia.&quot;  The usage hat-tip to Chairman Mao [Mao is the </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115952709026100243/comments/default/115953869216303860'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115952709026100243/comments/default/115953869216303860'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/09/sony-reader-will-start-out-october-1st.html?showComment=1159538640000#c115953869216303860' title=''/><author><name>david raphael israel</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/07535589040322113419</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/09/sony-reader-will-start-out-october-1st.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115952709026100243' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/115952709026100243' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1441140986"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 29, 2006"/></entry></feed>