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I had thought about doing another top ten droppers link love post this weekend, but given that I only have one book I consider at all suitable– cool colors for modern living is another great color book that I unreservedly recommend to Aer
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It seems as though I have always been a fan of Lawrence Block’s mysteries, discovering in high school his series of "Burglar Who" books (such as The Burglar Who Liked To Quote Kipling) featuring Bernie Rhodenbarr, the
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And a Happy Wednesday to you! It’s time for another Easy Picture Book roundup and I have some great ones for you today. First off, is Betsy Everitt’s Mean Soup. A child is in a very bad mood
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Happy Tuesday! The first book up today, I’m sorry to say is definitely Not a winner. I only managed to read the introduction and part of the first chapter of Nancy DeVille’s Death By Supermarket and was more
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Happy Weekend! For those of you who are off from work, I thought I would pop in and post about the most interesting book that I came across at work yesterday. Bruce Bickel and Stan Jantz have written an un-apologetic rant agai
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Today’s architectural books are a far cry from my usual eye candy selections. Both The Concrete House by Pieter A VanderWerf and The Rammed Earth House by David Easton are detailed and practical manuals for those interested in pursuing ei
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When Ron was in the hospital having surgery, Staci and I did major cleaning and the huge stacks of books that used to live on my couch now have their own place on the bookshelf. The downside of this of course is that with the books
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I fear my techie friends will be disappointed to learn that this post has Absolutely Nothing Whatsoever to do with Digital Subscriber Lines or my (somewhat) High(er) Speed Internet connection. The parents of pre-schoolers amon
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Pass the egg rolls! Jennifer 8 Lee, a first generation Chinese American (her middle name, the numeral eight, connotes prosperity in Chinese) has written a rollicking fun book about everyone’s favorite cuisine. Starting w
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First off today, a sincerest Thank You to Cromley over at Cromley’s World who a few days ago bestowed on me my very own Arte Y Pico award, which as I understand it is intended to recognize bloggers who are an "inspiration
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Part of me feels guilty for posting about a second memoir by a second Los Angeles area librarian within less than three months, but Quiet Please Dispatches from a Public Librarian was just barely too good to pass up. Scott Douglas
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Sometimes, it seems to me, Rita Mae Brown is simply out to taunt me. It was if she had somehow heard (or perhaps read) my wish that she write again about the old Runnymeade gang, and give us a break from all those mysteries, which Brown has bee
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Chas Newkey-Burden’s Great Email Disasters is a UK trade paperback book about e-mails that have come embarrassingly to light, leaving their senders to look like real schmucks. While reading titillating e-mails is fun I suppose,
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