Tag: books
group name: mnreaders
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June 13, 2008 02:10 PM EDT --
Mention the name Judy Blume and a positive response, whether a squeal, gasp or smile, is never far behind. Such was the case when I told my 9 year-old daughter that I had scored two tickets to see Judy . . .
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October 05, 2007 01:13 PM EDT --
We met online at 11:00 am ET on Monday, October 8th for an interactive interview with Jim Lehrer, Executive Editor and Anchor of The NewsHour with Jim Lehrerand author. We discussed his recently released . . .
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December 06, 2007 06:10 PM EST --
(humming:) "The weather outside is frightful...."
It's the perfect time of year for curling up with a good book. Except of course for all the holiday festivities, family gatherings, . . .
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May 19, 2008 02:47 PM EDT --
Look for the reviews of Queen of the Oil Club , That Summer in Sicily , and a rare breed of love on mnreaders.gather.com and publicradio.gather.com
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October 07, 2009 10:41 AM EDT --
The other day we opened the fireplace grate and had the first fire of the season. A few feet away the big dogs stretched out in the warmth, and we crashed on the couch as I read aloud a few chapters from . . .
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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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June 02, 2009 12:13 PM EDT --
There's something delicious and vaguely decadent about reading in the warmer months, as if we're actually letting time spin away. This month's reads:
The family book lately is "Forever . . .
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November 08, 2008 09:14 PM EST --
My novels are not cookie cutter novels where I put the lesbian on page 16 and then think I've gotten the job done. Sometimes the story has A DRAG QUEEN !!! - or in the case of Bad Moves it's . . .
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December 31, 2007 04:17 PM EST --
Welcome to a whole new year!
I admit, I make some half-hearted new year's resolutions around this time... usually it centers around more exercise, less eating... more listening, less talking... . . .
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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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October 17, 2006 02:09 PM EDT --
Seems like the movie can never quite live up to the magic of the book. I was wondering if anyone out there can think of examples where the movie actually surpassed (or at least matched) the genius of the . . .
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October 04, 2007 12:03 PM EDT --
Change is in the air... colder nights, the leaves are turning, I'm making soups instead of salads, and I'm drinking more tea than ice water. Ahhh - I LOVE fall.
I'm also getting . . .
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April 04, 2007 12:29 PM EDT --
Minnesota Public Radio's Midmorning ran with the intriguing show, Writers rate the greats:
A book critic asked more than 100 of today's most well-known writers what they think are the top 10 . . .
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June 01, 2007 04:15 PM EDT --
Garden guides, garden guides, garden guides.....
Okay, so maybe I'm starting to do a little summer reading, too, when I'm not obsessing over the state of my backyard. A recent road trip from Arizona . . .
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September 24, 2007 11:32 AM EDT --
Why did I write The Secret Cardinal?
I wrote my first four novels for the pure enjoyment of crafting wildly entertaining thrillers, but my motives for the fifth Nolan Kilkenny adventure are a bit . . .
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May 01, 2008 04:33 PM EDT --
May Day! May Day!
I mean "Happy May Day!"
I'm finding the tug of spring pulling me away from my books... "you can't read! there's gardening to be done!" . . .
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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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June 18, 2007 10:05 AM EDT --
I noticed that Nancy Pearl would be a guest on MPR's Midmorning today [June 18, 2007]:
From the Hardy boys to Harry Potter
Summer reading lists and the latest Harry Potter may absorb younger readers, . . .
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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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