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bookshelfmonstrosity.blogspot.com - 3 hours ago
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Bookish Quote of the Day: Literature is news
that stays news. -Ezra Pound Today in Literary History......
On this day in 1882 Anthony Trollope died. The recent commemorative plaque placed in Poets' Corner is inscribed with the last sentence from Trollope's ...
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The Monstrosity Gazette: A weekly smattering of all ...
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austenprose.wordpress.com - 12 hours ago
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The economy might me in the tank, but
Jane Austen is as valuable as ever. Six first...
editions of her classic novels hit the auction block at Christies in New York yesterday realizing some handsome prices.
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Austen on the Auction Block: Six First Editions of Jane ...
bookshelfmonstrosity.blogspot.com - 18 hours ago
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As a preacher's kid, it's only appropriate that
I spend a lot of time questioning religion and...
faith and generally being a black sheep. It's part of my role as a PK to rebel :) I love reading about all religions, both fiction and nonfiction, so I'm really excited about this challenge in 2010 ...
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More Challenges - Yes, I know I have a problem...
bookshelfmonstrosity.blogspot.com - 27 hours ago
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Anne Frank: Her Life in Words and Pictures
from the archives of The Anne Frank House Roaring...
Brook, 2009 215 pages Genre: nonfiction/biography Source: Library Summary in a Sentence: A photographic introduction to the life and experiences of Anne Frank, who along with her family and ...
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Anne Frank: Her life in words and pictures
npr.org - 41 hours ago
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Tis the season — every year at this
time — for the various renderings of A Christmas...
Carol by Charles Dickens. This year, the current animated version in the cinema — starring a computer-generated Jim Carrey in multiple roles — has won some plaudits for sticking with the spirit of the Dickens ...
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From Dickens Himself, Notes On 'A Christmas Carol'
npr.org - 47 hours ago
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Sampling world culture is an essential and powerfully
enriching experience — as anyone who has consumed the...
twisted and beautiful novels and poetry of this year's Nobel Prize winner Herta Muller knows. The works of foreign fiction listed here are about romance, family duty, sex, travel, violence and
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A World Of Novels: Picks For Best Foreign Fiction
cnn.com - 2 days ago
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It is a truth universally acknowledged -- or
nearly so -- that Jane Austen, the author of...
"Pride and Prejudice," died of a rare illness called Addison's disease, which robs the body of the ability to make critical hormones. Katherine White doesn't believe it.
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What really killed Jane Austen?
bookshelfmonstrosity.blogspot.com - 2 days ago
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An Alphabetical Life by Wendy Werris Pub: Carroll
& Graf, 2006 ISBN: 9780786718177 292 pages Genre: autobiography/nonfiction...
Source: Personal Copy Summary in a Sentence: Publisher's sales representative Wendy Werris chronicles her thirty-five years in the bookselling business, her ...
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An Alphabetical Life by Wendy Werris
bookshelfmonstrosity.blogspot.com - 2 days ago
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S. Krishna is hosting this fabulous challenge. Click
here for the complete set of rules and suggested...
reading. What is the South Asian Author Challenge? This challenge is to encourage people to read books by South Asian Authors – South Asia being India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka ...
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2010 South Asian Author Challenge
bookpatrol.net - 2 days ago
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Stephen J. Gertz writes: “The pop-up or moveable
book has come a long way since the groundbreaking...
work of Lothar Meggendorfer (1847–1925). Much of the credit for the revival of the pop-up or movable book goes to book collector and entrepreneur Waldo Hunt, who died November 6 at age 88. In 1965, ...
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Waldo Hunt and Pop-Up Books: A Brief Overview
bpl.org - 2 days ago
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One of the best-kept secrets in Boston’s literary
history concerns one of the most influential writers ever...
born there: Edgar Allan Poe. The current year marks the bicentennial of Poe’s birth. To celebrate, Boston Public Library is hosting a Poe exhibition, “The Raven in the Frog Pond: Edgar ...
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The Raven Returns to Boston
bookshelfmonstrosity.blogspot.com - 3 days ago
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Latest additions to the Great Monstrosity that is
my wishlist.... The year is 1507, and a friar...
has arrived in Tierkinddorf, a remote German village nestled deeply in the woods. The village has been suffering a famine, and the villagers are desperately hungry. The friar’s arrival is a ...
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Wading Through My Wishlist
wired.com - 3 days ago
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In the spirit of speaking truth to diamond-skinned
power, enjoy this list of unfortunate lessons girls learn...
from Twilight. (The list operates under the principle that any grownup female who embraces Twilight’s junior-high dreck temporarily sacrifices her “woman card.”)
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Top 20 Unfortunate Lessons Girls Learn From Twilight
bookclubgirl.com - 3 days ago
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A few years ago, when deciding what to
buy my godson for his christening gift I struck...
upon the idea of giving him what I believed to be the essential books that every boy should grow up reading. His name is Jack, so I asked an artistic friend to paint a beanstalk on a bright red wooden crate ...
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Book Club Girl's Best Books for Boys
bookshelfmonstrosity.blogspot.com - 4 days ago
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Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly event hosted
by Breaking the Spine . This week's pre-publication "can't-wait-to-read"...
selection is: A beautifully imagined tale of the Bronte sisters and the writing of Jane Eyre . The year is 1846. In a cold parsonage on the gloomy Yorkshire ...
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