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It’s time for Dewey’s April Read-a-Thon, and I’m pumped up for this one. I’m getting my list of books ready and planning my food and snacks ahead. After all, if I’m skipping everything else that day (including showers and cooking), I don’t want to starve. I might get a late start because of Friday plans, …
I felt I had to reply to a comment I saw on Amazon.com recently. The situation was this: a new, non-fiction book was being “reviewed” and one of the commenters gave it one star. It’s impossible to give anything lower on Amazon.com. The reasoning was that the price of the Kindle version of the book …
From the great post “Kurt Vonnegut’s 8 Tips on How to Write a Great Story” by Maria Popova on Brain Pickings, here is the list: Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted. Give the reader at least one character he …
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Cholla cactus blossoms in our yard, April 2011; after Photoshop Ink Outlines filter © Jan McClintock of We Need More Shelves
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 …
Alyce at At Home With Books is running a great giveway right now for two copies of this book that is already on my TBR stack. Publisher’s Weekly says “this clear and smoothly written look at the mind-boggling history of everything is both informative and provocative.You Are Here: A Portable History of the Universe by Christopher PotterPublisher: …
