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Horn Tooting: Library Journal/Newton and the Counterfeiter Edition
I’ve been waaay remiss in self aggrandizement/book hawking on this blog lately, so it is my pleasure to report that Library Journal put Newton and the Counterfeiter on its Best Books 2009 list. … more →
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Horn Tooting: Library Journal/Newton and the Counterfeiter Edition
Tom wrote 5 minutes ago: I’ve been waaay remiss in self aggrandizement/book hawking on this blog lately, so it is my pl … more →
Is life too short?
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nisababepraised wrote 21 hours ago: Booking Through Thursday is a neat site that gives a book-related prompt every Thursday for book blo … more →
Sexual terror kills people: a sort-of follow up to David Brooks' sexual queasiness.
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Tom wrote 1 day ago: A few days ago I wrote this screed of disdain about David Brooks data-less, thoughtless complaint ab … more →
#18 - Exclusive Review - Framed!
chris ds wrote 1 day ago: This book is one of my all time faves so you can imagine how happy I was when I heard it was going t … more →
2009 National Book Award Winners
The Longest Chapter wrote 1 day ago: Colum McCann’s Let the Great World Spin won the National Book Award for fiction. I’m jus … more →
The surprise of "American Salvage"
The Longest Chapter wrote 2 days ago: Bonnie Jo Campbell burst onto the literary scene with the nomination of American Salvage for a 2009 … more →
The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
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nisababepraised wrote 2 days ago: Aww, who’s been neglecting you, poor wittle blog? Mommy has! Yes, she has! Anyway, I have just … more →
Good Books - November 2009
Book Mavens wrote 3 days ago: Um…About that Cover I know, I know, you should never judge a book by its cover. This maxim ho … more →
"One Thousand White Women - The Journals of May Dodd" by Jim Fergus
jaynehanson wrote 3 days ago: This historical novel is set in the untamed plains of 1874 and begins with a woman being placed into … more →
Starclimber Review
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Ri wrote 4 days ago: Finally, two weeks after I finished the book, the promised Starclimber review Starclimber by Kenneth … more →
Lost in the coliseum
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The Longest Chapter wrote 5 days ago: On Friday, we went. My “booking” friends LS, AB and I go every year at this time to the Dayton Book … more →
Open Doors Online Store
spiritualcourage wrote 1 week ago: Have you ever wanted to learn more about persecuted Christians? Check out the Open Doors online stor … more →
The Well Witch
Dora wrote 1 week ago: So I’m having a show this month at Pangaea Cafe and Pub here in Quincy, CA, and I’ve bee … more →
Our Daily Bread
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spiritualcourage wrote 1 week ago: Do you ever read Our Daily Bread? Its a short, yet powerful devotional. On Sunday, they had a devoti … more →
All you need to know about the modern press, (The Push Cart War Edition)...
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Tom wrote 1 week ago: …you can find in my kid’s fourth grade reading assignment, that classic, Jean Merrill … more →
Newton and the Counterfeiter News: A whole hour of me talking about the book for your pleasure
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Tom wrote 2 weeks ago: Here, via MIT World, is the video of my talk in the MIT Writer’s Series to explain the who, wh … more →
Finding "Kaputt"
The Longest Chapter wrote 2 weeks ago: NYRB edition Yesterday morning, skimming the newest issue of The New York Review of Books (NYRB) whi … more →
Good Books - November 2009
Book Mavens wrote 2 weeks ago: New from Rick Riordan… Apparently, the next stop is…ancient Egypt! The first book in thi … more →
"The Humbling" is Roth at his best
The Longest Chapter wrote 2 weeks ago: I started reading Philip Roth with The Plot Against America (2004). After that, there was a new nove … more →
