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Tuesday, May 5, 2009 5:02:17 AM
Deborah Davis wrote a blog post titled West Bend, WI Library Board Members Dismissed for Doing Their Job:
Deborah said, "(I previously posted this piece on the AsIf! blog. As If! stands for Authors Supporting Intellectual Freedom. -DD)Publisher's Weekly reported recently that "four members of a library board in West Bend, Wis., were dismissed last week for refusing to..." more
Monday, September 8, 2008 2:11:32 AM
Deborah Davis wrote a blog post titled Does Sarah Palin believe in The First Amendment?:
Deborah said, "(Previously posted at http://asifnews.blogspot.com/) From The New York Times:"Shortly after becoming mayor, former city officials and Wasilla residents said, Ms. Palin approached the town librarian about the possibility of banning some books, though..." more
Wednesday, August 27, 2008 1:17:16 PM
Deborah Davis left a comment on the event page for The Orange County Book Festival:
Deborah said, "I want the space."
Wednesday, June 4, 2008 8:50:54 PM
Deborah Davis wrote a blog post titled The "P" Word:
Deborah said, "I have a new best friend—BF—a hefty, black, carbon and metal hinged brace with five Velcro straps. It enables me to walk more than half a mile without experiencing disabling pain and numbing sensations in my injured leg. I call it BF because it..." more
Monday, May 5, 2008 1:38:17 PM
Deborah Davis wrote a blog post titled Back from India:
Deborah said, "In January I spent ten days in a small town in rural South India, bracketed at each end by several days in the city of Chennai (formerly Madras). Chennai—with over four million residents—is everything one typically expects in a huge, Indian..." more
Monday, January 7, 2008 8:30:40 PM
Deborah Davis wrote a blog post titled Indian Sagas, Real and Imagined:
Deborah said, "My flight for India leaves in 16 hours. I'm almost packed for the trip, but not for the painters who will descend on our house in my absence. Every surface of my desk holds piles of papers, files, books about India, copies of my itinerary, my..." more
Monday, January 7, 2008 6:51:19 PM
Deborah Davis wrote a blog post titled NOT About Martin Luther King, Jr.:
Deborah said, "I leave for India tomorrow--in about 14 hours, to be exact. Here's an article written by my friend, Ann Manheimer, author of MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.: DREAMING OF EQUALITY (Lerner Publishing, 2004).DeborahNOT About Martin Luther King, Jr.by Ann..." more
Tuesday, December 4, 2007 3:51:57 AM
Deborah Davis wrote a blog post titled What's Booknapping? Take a Pop Quiz on Teens and Censorship, 2007:
Deborah said, "War, sex, homosexuality, anatomically correct terms for male and female genitalia, and profanity: Each of these topics or terms was cited in one or more challenges to books for teens in schools and libraries across the United States this past year...." more
Monday, December 3, 2007 9:45:09 PM
Deborah Davis wrote a blog post titled Writing and Serendipity:
Deborah said, "It has been six years since my husband Dwight, my then eight-year-old son Eli, and I lived in a small town in South India for four months while Dwight worked with an organization training social entrepreneurs. I've decided-perhaps foolishly, perhaps..." more
Monday, December 3, 2007 9:45:07 PM
Deborah Davis wrote a blog post titled Gifts that Count:
Deborah said, "If you're reading my blog, you must love books, and it's likely you know how important they are to young people. Please consider donating books to one of the organizations below or to another of your choice.If you are a teacher or work with groups..." more
Tuesday, November 6, 2007 4:22:11 AM
Deborah Davis wrote a blog post titled Losing a friend, and other riches:
Deborah said, "My work on LINA (the working title for my new novel-in-progress) came to a halt this month. I had a visit to Seattle planned to teach two writing workshops and visit old friends, but the week before I went there, I learned that a dear friend who'd..." more
Monday, November 5, 2007 9:29:43 PM
Deborah Davis wrote a blog post titled Why Teens in Prison Don't Have Books:
Deborah said, "Across the United States, in all of our juvenile halls--that is, in our prisons for people under the age of 18--there exist only six staffed libraries. Six. That's all. It's a shameful number. I learned this horrifying statistic last weekend while..." more
Thursday, October 4, 2007 1:16:18 AM
Deborah Davis wrote a blog post titled Researching NOT LIKE YOU:
Deborah said, "I'm often asked if I did much research in order to write NOT LIKE YOU. In a sense, yes, but I accomplished most of it long before I ever thought of writing that story. For instance, like Kayla, the main character of NOT LIKE YOU, I had an older..." more
Tuesday, October 2, 2007 2:40:23 AM
Deborah Davis wrote a blog post titled The agony and ecstasy of revision:
Deborah said, "My 360-page work-in-progress (WIP) came back to me from my Clarion editor a couple of weeks ago with a seven-page letter. Mostly, that letter consists of questions: Is Lina, my main character a "bleeding heart"? How does she change from the..." more
Wednesday, September 5, 2007 7:08:04 PM
Deborah Davis wrote a blog post titled First Monday postings:
Deborah said, "In an effort to post regularly here, I'm starting my "First Monday" postings. I know; it's Wednesday. Chalk it up to Labor Day and summer vacation mentality. Anyway, starting after this week I'll be posting every first Monday of the month. NOT LIKE..." more
Sunday, June 14, 2009 6:48:05 PM
Deborah Davis wrote a blog post titled Recommended book: The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga:
Deborah said, "The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga My review rating: 5 of 5 starsA fantastic book, worthy of the Booker Prize. Read it. View all my reviews."