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June 02, 2009 12:13 PM EDT
(featured date: June 02, 2009)
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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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March 23, 2009 03:15 PM EDT
(featured date: March 24, 2009)
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The book starts with the classic cheesy line, "It was a dark and stormy night." Despite that, it won the 1963 Newbery Medal (considered the most prestigious award for children's . . .
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February 26, 2009 12:13 PM EST
(featured date: February 26, 2009)
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Minnesota author Bill Holm has died :
Holm, who was also am English professor at Southwest Minnesota State University, was 65. [...] Holm wrote at least 10 books of essays and poetry, including "Boxelder . . .
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February 17, 2009 04:45 PM EST
(featured date: February 23, 2009)
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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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February 15, 2009 10:02 AM EST
(featured date: February 17, 2009)
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I have never been really crazy about legal thrillers. The ones that I did read tended to be a little too boring for my taste and with so many suspense and thriller books on the market nowadays, . . .
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February 11, 2009 12:09 PM EST
(featured date: February 12, 2009)
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In her concise and entertaining book, For the Love of Letters: A 21st-Century Guide to the Art of Letter Writing, Samara O'Shea tells us there is no formula for love letters. She then generously . . .
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January 28, 2009 07:52 AM EST
(featured date: January 30, 2009)
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1) How do you feel about classic literature? Are you intimidated by it? Love it? Not sure because you never actually tried it? Don't get why anyone reads anything else? Which classics, if any, have . . .
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January 26, 2009 10:23 AM EST
(featured date: January 26, 2009)
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Nikki Giovanni writes poetry that dives into one's heart as if shot by an archer's bow. Self-described as a "wildcard," host Kerri Miller had all she could do . . .
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January 22, 2009 09:59 AM EST
(featured date: January 22, 2009)
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You would think that after months of exclusive study of Shakespeare's work in college and years of reading I would have a better idea of the Bard himself. As it turned out during reading The . . .
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January 21, 2009 03:28 PM EST
(featured date: January 21, 2009)
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John Steinbeck's 'The Pearl' is really a long short story. Written as a parable in 1947, Steinbeck stated, "perhaps everyone takes his own meaning from it and reads . . .
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January 21, 2009 11:33 AM EST
(featured date: January 21, 2009)
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We have a volunteer! Look for Susan's post here on Gather.
I'm looking for a volunteer to attend the event and recap it here on Gather.com. Description:
Host Kerri Miller talks with . . .
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January 13, 2009 07:42 AM EST
(featured date: January 14, 2009)
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What a delectable novel! It is about Vianne Roche and her daughter Anouk who move into a little town of Lasquenet in France. There, they decide to open a chocolaterie, right across the street from the . . .
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January 02, 2009 03:27 PM EST
(featured date: January 05, 2009)
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When it comes to reading, January is my favorite time of year. The holiday celebrations and work parties are over, my evenings are free from last-minute baking and gift-wrapping, and now, as we dig into . . .
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December 05, 2008 03:07 PM EST
(featured date: December 11, 2008)
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If one feature of postmodernism is the suspicion of "grand narratives," Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers:The Story of Success is an interesting example of postmodern research. A grand narrative . . .
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November 19, 2008 08:57 AM EST
(featured date: November 24, 2008)
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Here is a shocking blog that should be read by everybody who loves books (and Gather has quite a few of them).
If a publisher isn't a POD (Print On Demand) like mine (Stone Garden Publishing) then . . .
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November 14, 2008 05:36 PM EST
(featured date: November 18, 2008)
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For many years American infantrymen were issued a "shelter half," which was half of a pup tent. At the end of a day, each soldier had to join up with a buddy so that the two of them could attach . . .
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November 07, 2008 05:39 PM EST
(featured date: November 12, 2008)
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In fact, read something new and unusual. Why always read the same ole same ole? Read something different for a change. How many novels have you read about a . . .
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November 01, 2008 05:48 PM EDT
(featured date: November 03, 2008)
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Much more than a beautiful coffee table book, Living Homes: Sustainable Architecture and Design is a well-written introduction to a trend in homebuilding worth following, . . .
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October 28, 2008 09:48 AM EDT
(featured date: October 28, 2008)
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MPR's Midmorning discusses Dracula through the ages
A lawyer has turned his obsession with Victorian times and its most prominent characters into a new book that catalogues everything one . . .
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October 16, 2008 07:38 PM EDT
(featured date: October 26, 2008)
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Golfers who don't head south for the winter often spend long hours as the snow flies catching up on golf books, golf magazines, golf videos, and golf dreams. Now Duluth MN poet and self-described bogey . . .
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