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Apr 20, 2009, 3:55 am
Coming towards the end of April, we’re a third of the way through the way through the year. What’s the favourite book you’ve read so far in 2009? What about your least favourite? (question courtesy of MizB)
I've had a really good run of reading so far this year!
Since I switch back and forth ... Comment - Like
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Apr 19, 2009, 1:59 pm
1. My uncle once :
On advice of council, I'm going to have to skip this question.
2. Never in my life :
Will I be a puppet to "the man".
3. When I was seventeen :
"I learned the truth..."
4. High School was :
A necessary evil.
5. I will never forget :
Well...I'm sure there must be something...
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Apr 16, 2009, 3:36 am
Yesterday, April 15th, was Tax Day here in the U.S., which means lots of lucky people will get refunds of over-paid taxes.
Whether you’re one of them or not, what would you spend an unexpected windfall on? Say … $50? How about $500?
(And, this is a reading meme, so by rights the answer should ... Comment - Like
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Apr 5, 2009, 4:00 pm
NoBSBookReviewshas moved to Today.com
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The Manual of Detection by Jedediah Berry
It was a simple life for Charles Unwin. He rode his bicycle everyday to the Agency where he worked as a clerk. For the last 20 years, Unwin had been assigned to transcribe and file the case no... Comment - Like
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Apr 4, 2009, 1:39 pm
This is PennyShe lived in an ancient used bookstore in downtown Long Beach, CA
This store was huge, dark and crowded with 10' tall, make-shift wooden shelves. Some made from planks, some made from crates, some made from, seemingly, whatever wood was found around. I couldn't even tell you what the wa... Comment - Like
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Apr 3, 2009, 12:27 pm
1. Angel or not, I will be-devil you!
2. Shake me, bake me, any way you want me.
3. As my mother used to say, you're full of beans. And she was right! I just finished a baked bean sandwich! I'm also, now full of gas, but that's passing...
4. __?___ after I'm done working out or doing something str... Comment - Like
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Mar 30, 2009, 10:46 pm
Do you keep track of what and/or how many books you read? How long have you been doing this? What's your favorite tracking method, and why?If you don't keep track, why not? (question courtesy of MizB)
When I was a kid I, pretty much, read only mass market paperbacks. I would tear out the page that l... Comment - Like
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Mar 26, 2009, 4:39 am
NoBSBookReviewshas moved to Today.com
read the latest review of: The Sun and the Moon by Matthew Goodman
As newspapers are closing down in 2009, author Matthew Goodman takes a look at the tenuous birth of the newspaper industry almost two hundred years ago...click here or on the picture for the rest... Comment - Like
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Mar 24, 2009, 8:34 pm
These were, then, rational beings; on the moon, that perennial object of earthly wonder, intelligent life had at last been discovered. For some moments the astronomers scarcely breathed, observing the startling scene, but eventually the import of what they had found began to sink in, and what Grant ... Comment - Like
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Mar 17, 2009, 2:19 am
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read the latest review of: by George by Wesley Stace
A tale of two Georges. George Fisher during WWII and George Fisher of the 1970’s. Two boys related by family but not by blood...
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Mar 7, 2009, 2:27 am
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read the latest review of:Alex & Me by Irene M. Pepperberg
After trying (and failing) to write this review without bias towards Dr. Pepperberg and her work, I’ve decided to add this disclaimer at the beginning and stop trying to work against myself...
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Feb 25, 2009, 1:20 am
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read the latest review of:Noir by Olivier Pauvert
An un-named protagonist wakes to find a woman mutilated and hanging from a tree. Before he can figure out why she looks vaguely familiar, the police arrive and arrest him for murder...
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Feb 14, 2009, 5:24 pm
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read the latest review of: Peaches & Daddy by Michael M. Greenburg
"...Edward Browning was 51 when he met Frances 'Peaches' Heenan at a sorority dance. She was 15. They were married on her 16th birthday. The marriage lasted less than a year during which... Comment - Like
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Feb 4, 2009, 9:03 pm
It was a dark and stormy night...Boston, Scollay Square, 1960. Flo is alone and pregnant and being followed by drunken sailors. All she wants is a safe, dry place to rest. Escaping her pursuers, she ducks into a darkened used bookstore. Finding it free of people, she searches out a warm corner near ... Comment - Like
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Jan 26, 2009, 1:45 am
"If Sesame Street is the most successful show on television, it is also the most analyzed, criticized, evaluated, debated, debunked, championed, viewed with alarm, pointed to with pride, interpreted, misinterpreted, and overinterpreted media event since William Randolph Hearst declared war on Spain:... Comment - Like
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Jan 15, 2009, 10:23 pm
Imagine the possibilities, if the intellectual Henry and William James of the east, were brothers to the villainous Frank and Jesse James of the west.This is the premise of Richard Liebmann-Smith's farcical book The James Boys.
Working from the premise that the two youngest brothers of the east ... Comment - Like
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Jan 5, 2009, 9:15 pm
"A bad man in Africa"
"A brain as well as a body"
"A possible victim of alien abduction"
"A Beatle"
These are among the lives chronicled in The Economist Book of Obituaries.
Unlike most newspapers, where the job of obituary writer is given to rookies or "burnt out" reporters, Keith Colquhoun and A... Comment - Like
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