A Changing Pattern
MANY of us have come to take the ZB Book Reviews for granted. Over a long period they have undoubtedly proved their value, and it would be hard to imagine Sunday evenings without them. Yet any pattern, however good, can become stale in time; a change is salutary, if only to make us realise how good the normal approach is. Recent developments in the ZB Book Reviews seem to me to have been for the better. Having only ‘one chairmdn for the month does give greater continuity and a kind of personality to each cluster; also we hear fewer trashy novels discussed than in earlier days. But the greatest advance, I feel, has been in the grouping together, to make up a single session, of books of the same or related kinds. A team of University teachers reviewing works of semi-academic interest, a set of experts dealing with some war books, a group of works on music and poetry, a haversack of travel books-these have made up programmes heard recently. The combination of such a system with the usual "mixed bag" brings the session closer to the atmosphere of a library and takes it further away from the bookseller’s remainder bin.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 669, 2 May 1952, Page 11
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204A Changing Pattern New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 669, 2 May 1952, Page 11
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