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Top Ten Tuesday: Books I’d like to Reread

September 28, 2011

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Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by The Broke and The Bookish. This is a meme I’ve been meaning to join for a while now but just haven’t. Today I finally decided to jump in…very late in the day on Tuesday. This week, we’re talking about books we’d like to reread. As…

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Review: Stiff by Mary Roach

September 26, 2011

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What happens to our remains after we die? What kinds of tests are done on bodies donated to science? I decided I wanted to be an organ donor a number of years ago. After all, I won’t have any use for my organs when I’m dead, if someone else can benefit from them, why…

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Notes from the Bibliospehre: Making Time to Read

September 25, 2011

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Those who care to look through the archives have may notice that the first post here was in June of this year. When I started the blog, I had notebooks full of handwritten book reviews. I figured I’d start by typing them up and sharing them here. Many of these reviews have appeared here,…

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Banned Books Week starts today!

Review: Winter’s Bone by Daniel Woodrell

September 23, 2011

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I’ll be honest: I hadn’t heard of Daniel Woodrell’s novel, Winter’s Bone, until the movie came out and Jennifer Lawrence got an Oscar nomination. I’m not sure I would have picked up this book if the movie hadn’t gotten so much buzz. What can I say? The movie made me curious about the book….

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Amazon and the Future of Public Libraries

September 22, 2011

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The Wall Street Journal recently reported that Amazon is hoping to create a Netflix like service for eBooks. Members would pay a flat fee and could read “borrowed” eBooks on their Kindles. I was originally going to discuss this news in my post about book piracy, but I figured that post was long enough…

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