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Sep.05.2008
I have a terrible curiosity, much like a cat. I nose around and ask questions just for my own edification. Today just such a question has arisen and I am worrying with it.
Where do you buy your books? Who is your favorite bookseller, online or other?
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Aug.30.2008
I'll miss you, Michael Patterson, though you're only a pen and ink drawing on smudgy newsprint.
For as long as I can remember reading the paper, I've followed "For Better or for Worse," the comic strip drawn for 29 years by Lynn Johnston. I'm the same age as the oldest child of the...
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Aug.22.2008
“[1] I celebrate myself,
And what I assume you shall assume,
For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you”
There was a lake nearby where we took the canoe early that first morning about two hours after the passing of a storm in the night. The water was flat and clear as resin and we...
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Aug.22.2008
I have always liked Michael Moore. When I saw Roger and Me when I was seventeen, I was amazed by how smart, funny and sad it was. I loved his TV show TV Nation and when he came to Berkeley, I went to hear him read twice and I have two signed books by him. I agree with a lot he says.
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Aug.21.2008
Finally, I can stop holding my breath! Just Breathe has had a long and winding road to publication, and I’m grateful to readers everywhere for their patience. Now I’m proud to say the book is finally in stores (August 26). This is a story straight from the heart about one woman’s shattered dreams...
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Aug.19.2008
I'm reading a riveting memoir of mental illness and recovery called GET ME OUT OF HERE by Rachel Reiland. I came upon it when browsing in a bookstore, and the first few pages swept me away. Money being tight, I then checked it out of the library. I started reading in earnest today, and the book's...
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Aug.18.2008
I visited an old friend this weekend, probably for the last time. Now that might sound overblown to somebody who would consider Acres of Books in Long Beach to be just a used bookstore.
But I’m not alone.
Saturday afternoon the place was full of people like me. Readers and book lovers who have...
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Aug.04.2008
Why would an author ever give away a book? A whole book, that took months, maybe years, to write? It's a big question today, as publishers and authors both struggle to find readers in an online world that's increasingly made up of free content.
I've become one of those authors, by making...
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Aug.03.2008
It wasn't so long ago that my nightstand was literally tipping over from the stack of books piled upon it.
Most all of them I'd read before. So why were they there, threatening to push my bedside lamp right off the edge onto the floor?
I nearly always read at least a few pages before drifting off...
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Jul.31.2008
I clearly remember those days when myself and my classmates used to have a lot of fun, playing games during the free period, and enjoying ourselves. In class 6th, we were introduced to our school'd Library, through a special weekly Library hour. I hadn't seen so many books at a single place before...
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