Tag: literature
group name: mnreaders
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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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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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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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December 04, 2006 09:46 AM EST --
For three years in the 1920s, H.P. Lovecraft and a small group of literary friends formed what they called The Kalem Club. The group met in coffee houses, ice-cream parlors, and . . .
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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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June 15, 2006 08:35 AM EDT --
With any luck you're near one of Minnesota's 10,000 lakes, reading a book that you can't put down. If you're online and looking for other readers, your luck is even . . .
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August 02, 2006 02:53 PM EDT --
What are you reading? I think summer reading is the exact opposite of summer movies -which is blockbuster/mega over-the-top entertainment. Summer reading is remembering where you were when you read . . .
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July 11, 2008 10:39 AM EDT --
Most of After the Floods is set in the fictional town of Cold Beak Minnesota, desolate from a flood. In these pages, Pete moves to Cold Beak from the Iron Range after the death of his wife.
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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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July 16, 2008 01:35 PM EDT --
It seems as though each time you check his website, Ian McEwan has collected another award, and with the success of Atonement he has to be considered one of the great living novelists in English. Although . . .
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February 23, 2009 09:12 PM EST --
One of my fellow bloggers tagged me with this fun meme and I figured I would post it on Gather as well. I really enjoyed writing it all down.
Tell me about the book that's . . .
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November 08, 2009 01:00 PM EST --
You might think that an anthology that sets out to collect poems from each of Minnesota's 87 counties would at best be uneven. In fact County Lines , published in 2008 by the League of Minnesota Poets . . .
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October 11, 2007 09:07 AM EDT --
In what came as a surprise to many information markets the Swedish Academy has awarded the 2007 Nobel Prize for Literature to British author Doris Lessing. The Academy called Lessing "an epicist of . . .
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September 19, 2008 09:05 AM EDT --
Last night St. Scholastica College in Duluth MN hosted an event in memory of Carol Bly and in praise of her posthumous novel, Shelter Half. Carol, who died in December of 2007, was a native of Duluth . . .
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July 19, 2006 03:08 PM EDT --
It's summertime, and the reading is easy. I usually like to tackle non-fiction in the winter, when there's nothing else to do. But in the summer, like many, I'm a sucker for mysteries, thrillers . . .
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November 15, 2009 11:44 AM EST --
I was led to Lorrie Moore's new novel, A Gate at the Stars, by the NY Times Book Review, and I plan to go back to see just what the reviewer found to like. This is a padded, overly cute novel that . . .
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June 13, 2008 09:56 AM EDT --
Last night Northern Lights Books and Gifts of Duluth, MN threw a launch party for Anthony Bukoski's North of the Port, his fifth collection of short stories. With these books, lovingly depicting . . .
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August 10, 2006 10:20 AM EDT --
OK, this starts out like a silly question but the answer intrigues me. How do you read ? one at a time, more than one, do you finish everything you start, does it matter, can you let go of one book and . . .
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October 11, 2006 12:24 PM EDT --
Indian writer Kiran Desai, who at the age of 35 has become the youngest woman ever to win Britain's most prestigious literary award, the Man Booker Prize, Wednesday recalled her parent's efforts . . .
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September 04, 2007 01:31 PM EDT --
The State Fair is officially over, the kids are heading back to school, and in the past week there's been a little chill in the evening air that foreshadows the onset of fall. There's still work . . .
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