A new site has found an interesting use for Google Maps. GoogleLitTrips.com offers downloadable presentations that explore Google Earth based on novels. Journey with your favorite characters in books like The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, The Aeneid, Macbeth, or Grapes of Wrath.
Be careful though - it can get addictive.

Reading is the keystone to self education.
This morning, I came across a quote that really demonstrates what a difference reading can make in a person’s life. Check it out:

All of the books that we will ever need to make us as rich, as healthy, as happy, as powerful, as sophisticated and as successful as […]