Tag: reading
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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June 29, 2009 10:25 AM EDT --
Lazy days at the beach, work lunch-breaks, and warm nights before bed... What do they all have in common? The answer is a great summer read.
I realize it's not quite July yet, and maybe the selections . . .
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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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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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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 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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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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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 03, 2009 12:00 PM EDT --
Warning: This post isn’t about the book as much as it is about the reading...or perhaps, the reader.
Blue Highways is the kind of book that will change your life if you decide it should. . . .
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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July 25, 2006 04:33 PM EDT --
After a very long break from the genre of poetry I've recently found myself immersed in stanzas this summer. I've been devouring collections by Nicole Blackman, Greg Hewett and now Hart Crane. . . .
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April 07, 2008 04:48 PM EDT --
So I really thought is was spring - really, I was pretty darn sure - so I got out all my gardening books, started making plans for the garden, and then.... snow. And more snow. And snow mixed with rain. . . .
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