Tag: authors
group name: mnreaders
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February 04, 2008 11:28 AM EST --
This is going to be a GREAT month for reading. I just know it. Why? Because later this month my 'significantly other' and I are going away for a four-day weekend, and all we plan to do is . . .
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July 02, 2008 05:54 PM EDT --
Happily, I'm about to embark on yet another reading retreat. This time it's a week in Door County, with nothing on the agenda except for biking, reading and napping. I've got a stack of books . . .
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January 02, 2008 03:42 PM EST --
Like Mother Hubbard I went to my reading cupboard and found that it was quite bare. This got me to thinking. We think globally and act locally right? We buy locally, why not read locally? In 2008 . . .
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November 12, 2008 09:03 AM EST --
And if you have a book, yourself (all Gather authors stand up and be counted), list your book here in this thread (and tell us a bit about it) ...
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March 05, 2009 01:58 PM EST --
My fiance and I were just in Oregon for a long weekend, and since we flew into Portland, couldn't help but pay a visit to the Mecca of all bookstores - Powell's. The place is enormous - covering . . .
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August 01, 2008 05:05 PM EDT --
It's the peak of summer - the garden is growing with the occasional help of a heavy dousing, things are slow at work, and it's just too dang hot out these days to do much of anything. . . .
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September 05, 2007 11:35 AM EDT --
Please join us today, September 6th, 3-4pm ET for a live chat with M.J. Rose, author of The Reincarnationist and an international bestselling author of nine novels. To attend the live chat, just visit . . .
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October 02, 2006 06:14 PM EDT --
What are you reading these days? Seems to be a lot of activity at Gather.com around the Book it to Bermuda Cruise, sponsored by PRBS and Gather, and for the book review contest that's part of it all. . . .
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February 17, 2009 04:45 PM EST --
I find myself stumbling between fiction and non these days. I just received four books in the mail - two on gardening, one cookbook, and one book on making cheese. But oddly in the winter months, . . .
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July 07, 2008 11:50 AM EDT --
Hello all,
So my book Practically Posh was just released and is already sweeping the nation, or at least my office, literally.
Yesterday, Marissa, a co-producer on the station, was . . .
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November 02, 2006 12:47 AM EST --
Election Day is soon upon us putting into even sharper view the small avalanche of political or world events books that are invariably released at this time. I can't quite manage a single one though . . .
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December 29, 2006 06:53 PM EST --
Matt Beam has taught in various capacities in Toronto, Vancouver, Guatemala, Fiji, Australia, and New Zealand and has written for newspapers that include the Toronto Star, the National Post, Toronto Life, . . .
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June 08, 2008 10:03 AM EDT --
There's a branch of literary criticism that studies the role that readers play in determining or completing the literary work. You can talk, for instance, about how Jane Austen's awareness the . . .
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August 28, 2007 12:56 PM EDT --
Below is the transcript of the interactive interview with Kendall King, Ph.D., and Alison Mackey, Ph.D., authors of The Bilingual Edge.
In The Bilingual Edge, Georgetown University professors . . .
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March 03, 2008 09:44 AM EST --
Recently, a convicted sex-offender won $10 Million in the Massachusetts Lottery. A few weeks before that, a deadbeat dad won another jackpot. It often seems that the people who win the lottery are the . . .
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June 02, 2008 10:27 AM EDT --
Why don't we know much about history?
For nearly twenty years, I have been working on that very troublesome question –and trying to solve the problem by writing and talking to people about . . .
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July 22, 2008 03:28 PM EDT --
Want to become a book reviewer? Bright Ideas by Bestselling Authors is offering free copies of upcoming books to members interested in writing book reviews!
Request a copy by sending a message . . .
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August 27, 2008 02:54 PM EDT --
Why do we see pigeons as lowly urban pests and how did they become such common city dwellers? In her new book, Superdove , Courtney Humphries traces the natural history of the pigeon, recounting how . . .
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July 07, 2008 12:31 PM EDT --
The point I am about to make is reiterated before me as the word "blogger" is underlined in red in my Microsoft Word document. Spell check has no idea what a blogger is, and, for a long time, . . .
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June 09, 2008 10:50 AM EDT --
In AMERICA'S HIDDEN HISTORY , I tell six separate stories, each of which reveals an "untold tale" that your schoolbooks left out.
These six stories cover a broad range of our history, . . .
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