There is a wonderful group on Flickr for photos of Old Books, and their most interesting shots are available as a gallery on Flickriver. It’s a great help to imagine you are walking down the aisles of a used book store or an old library. The smell… you know. © Jan McClintock of We Need […]
This is a great challenge now hosted by Book Chick City, and we even get a free ARC for participating! Read all the details and sign up here. Already on my way to this, one of the few challenges I know I can survive (and thus, one of the few I accept). Most will be
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True happiness is to understand our duties toward God and man; to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future; not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears, but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is abundantly sufficient; for he that is so wants nothing. The great blessings of mankind are
My book list at Flashlight Worthy Book Recommendations has been published. “Era by Era, Firsts in Historical Mystery Series” includes 14 of my favorite series. It was a difficult decision; I began with a huge list and had to narrow it down to a reasonable length. But leaving someone out was akin to insulting an
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon – This fictional account of an autistic teen in England out to solve a mystery tries a little too hard, but is still very entertaining and at times, very funny. The Magical Life of Long Tack Sam by Ann Marie Fleming – My
Jennifer over at Crazy For Books has a great idea for sharing book blogs: a Book Blogger Hop. “Every day I seem to find another book blog that I start following. In the spirit of the Friday Follow, I thought it would be cool to do a Book Blog Hop to give us all bookies
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Peter, the fellow who runs Flashlight Worthy Book Recommendations, just got in touch out of the blue. He’s making a concerted effort to increase the number of book lists in his Book Club Books category. Interested in writing a book list? Think you know a number of books that would appeal to book clubs? Get
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A Supremely Bad Idea: Three Mad Birders and Their Quest to See It All by Luke Dempsey This is a entertaining memoir of an ex-pat Brit who lives in New York City and discovers birding as an adult. ‘Aww, you say, sounds like a nice story,’ and it is. All is not rosy and cozy,
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