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Feb.17.2013
This weekend (it's 19 degrees this morning, snow on the ground) here in the Blue Ridge Mountains, trying to avoid cabin fever, I've been taking inventory of my books. I try to resist being a book version of King Midas (you'll remember he loved running his hands through his golden gains), but it's...
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Feb.08.2013
It ain't great literature, but ...
In a world with more readers than books, I'm happy to let the concept of good, better, best, great literature take a slide. I have an opinion (and I am - of course - correct) about the scale of "worth" as regards books. But, I am more happy that people ...
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Feb.02.2013
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Serendipity is not your traditional style newsletter. It is Angel Logan's unique way of reaching out to her readers and friends – to stay in touch, to give updates on her writing career, and to share a few of the personal and professional pearls of...
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Jan.31.2013
Millie looked at the screen in the front of her couch and it read, “When ready to return home, please press the red button.”
She asked, “Is everyone ready to go home?”
Tired little voices from the couches behind her agreed that they were ready to go home. Jasmine said, “I just wish that it wasn’t...
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Jan.17.2013
What an interesting idea. And just when you thought it was safe to read a book.
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BiblioTech Is Bexar County's Bookless Library
BiblioTech, opening this fall in San Antonio, will be the USA's first book-less library, according to reports.
ABC News says...
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Jan.11.2013
The door to the instant travel machine closed, a red light flashed once and then the door opened again, instantly…
As the door opened, a weird red light flooded the compartment from outside and a wispy red fog blew into the doorway and filled the little chamber. Everyone’s eyes were staring at the...
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Nov.18.2012
A man texting while driving his car is like a man putting on mascara while driving to play fullback at the Super Bowl. Ridiculous.
Not long ago telephones were either heavy black objects which sat on a desk or were attached to a wall. It was actually possible to hear the people...
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Nov.13.2012
First, don't you just love that title and the images conjured by "Book Mountain"? A mountain of books! Gizmag and BBC both had stories on The Book Mountain, a new Rotterdam public library in The Netherlands where 50,000 books are surrounded by a glass pyramid. Looks fascinating,...
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Oct.10.2012
How I love books. Let me count the ways. And let Elizabeth Barrett Browning excuse my cheap poetic pilfering.
I love the smell of a book—the sharp scent of fresh ink pressed against crisp pages. I love the feel of a book, its weight and clean, shiny cover. I love to...
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Aug.23.2012
photo: Picaresque but creepy photo of Madeline Yale Wynne's final little room (sorry), in the Berkshire Mountains, from Find A Grave's website. (I couldn't find a Wikipedia page or anything else less creepy.)
The latest in the series from The Library of America, this for Week #42, "...
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