It's more than four months old, but it's still worth reading...
Sunday, August 22, 2010
It's a...trailer
I'm frankly not sure if this is the way to promote this or not. Yesterday our terrific children's book buyer at Bookshop Santa Cruz pressed this new book by Lane Smith upon me and I immediately pressed it upon a couple more of my coworkers. So I thought I'd go on and recommend it here too, thinking I wouldn't have much more to show than the cover image. However, Macmillan has made this cartoon of it available which gives some sense of the substance. Perhaps it undermines the central point, though, which is that a book is a book and not something else. I have to admit that I heard different voices in my head when I read it to myself, and you might want to go that route too. However, I offer you the choice...
Grammar and Spelling
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A conversation erupted on Facebook a few weeks ago about the importance of
proper grammar and spelling. Opinions were all over the place. Some people
we...
Forgotten Book - He Arrived at Dusk
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It's ten years since a review by John Norris of a book by R.C. Ashby (who
was to become much better-known as Ruby Ferguson, a popular author of
'pony' b...
FFB-THE FILM THAT CHANGED MY LIFE, Robert K Elder
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Thirty directors choose the film that sent them on the course to movie
making in this collection. Some are expected influences and others
surprising. L...
One Man's Opinion: ALICE IN JEOPARDY by ED McBAIN
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* 'There is nothing like early retirement to make a person feel dead.'*
After 35 years of teaching, I finally stepped away from the profession at
the e...
Via Basel: A Manifesto
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*Wintering* by Marguerite Gignoux
*A Manifesto for the coming months and years*
I will stop
discussing,
convincing,
rationalizing,
arguing,
...
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"If Raymond Chandler had grown up in N Ireland the Sean Duffy series is what
he wd have written."
Times of London
"The Sean Duffy books are one of the grea...
Last Swim
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Because of the timing of my travels this summer, today was my last Early
Bird lap swim, peaceful, meditative, and smooth, with country music and
Carole K...
A sad farewell
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5 31 2023
Not really THAT sad. This blog has been a good thing for me for quite a few
years. I’ve been blogging here since January 2010 on my writing...
Foreign Service, a James Bond Story
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A few years ago the copyright on Ian Fleming's James Bond ran out in Canada
and a publisher here announced an anthology of short stories featuring
Bond. I ...
trying to find a way of getting down
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Why should I miss the dirty icicle in *La Femme de Gilles*, when I can
still see “long, black snow-covered hedges” and that “heap of stones” Elisa
sits o...
Breastfeeding & Nutrition Research Paper
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Chapter I THE PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND The arrival of an infant surely
brings incomparable joy in every family. But how they raise them will play
a signi...
I Am Part of the Resistance Inside BookBar
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Originally posted on bookbarblog:
I work for Nicole Sullivan but like-minded colleagues and I have vowed to
thwart parts of her agenda and her worst inclin...
APHASIA
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*Aphasia is the result of damage to the parts of the brain involved in
speaking, reading, writing and understanding others.*
Any damage to the language area...
The Mad Girls – free promotion!
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For three days, you have the opportunity to get acquainted with an
interesting new writer, published by Candied Crime, our family publishing
company. Rannv...
Gumshoe/ B-Girl Day
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Once upon a time I called it Hard-boiled Guy/B-Girl Day.
Since I put it together, I decided Gumshoe worked better.
Celebrate the cinematic release of the...
A Little Cloud, by James Joyce
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I know, I know, I'm late for Bloomsday, and at this point, I thought you'd
have forgotten. My friends, why haven't you forgotten? I mean, you surely
know t...
Grazie & Arrivederci!
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So that's the end of the Europa Challenge! Thanks to everyone for a great
five years of reading and reviewing! I'll leave the blog up so folks can
find you...
It Lives!
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It has been quite a while since I have updated this blog. Some things have
changed over the last year, I changed jobs last October, after thirteen
years ...
UNDER CONSTRUCTION ~ OVER DELIGHT
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UNDER CONSTRUCTION ~ OVER DELIGHT
* AT THE BIJOU * ?
Yes, that's right.
From our newly refurbished red velvet reader seats . . .
to showcasing AUTH...
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Miss Lemon's Mystery Roundup, 2011
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Aside from a fragrant cup of Earl Grey, there is almost nothing Miss Lemon
likes more than tucking in to a delicious mystery. The more British that
myster...
The Valleys of the Assassins: Freya Stark
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(published by the Modern Library, $15.00, or from Amazon)
When planning my trip to Qatar, it was hard to decide on reading material.
If I go abroad I alwa...
You go right to the dilemma. A book is a book. Sigh...
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