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A WRITER'S WIT
We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.
​Phyllis Diller
Born July 17, 1917

P. Diller

My Book World

Each weekend I try to view selected portions of C-SPAN’s Book-TV, forty-eight straight hours of recorded author readings of nonfiction now hitting the shelves, and sometimes six-hour segments covering book festivals around the U.S. C-SPAN, by the way, is supported by most all cable and satellite TV providers, so check your listings. You can also view at any time any reading at Book-TV’s Web site. And if you do wish to tune in, you can view, download, and print a copy of the weekend’s schedule off the Web site. Below I list a presentation I recently found very compelling.

In a C-SPAN Book-TV presentation about his book, Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming, editor Paul Hawken talks about how the book’s contributors have outlined sometimes simple ways of working with the earth, instead of against its natural processes, to clean it up. The goal is to accomplish this task by 2050. By the date of this April 2017 presentation, the book had already gone into two printings. I plan to get my copy soon.

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