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Becky Haase I love the Kindle my husband got me. I didn't think I would like it and now I am addicted.
Kathleen Robinson I am reading Jennifer Weiner, "Good in Bed" - I think it is great. I looking for another book with just as much wit as this one.
BookBrowse Books '09 was a busy year - 1709 that is! Join me on a whistle-stop tour 300 years back in time to meet the Flying Priest, and the men who inspired "Robinson Crusoe" and "For He's A Jolly Good Fellow!"
Bettye McMillen I want to read all the time, but reading about books helps me to choose which books to read now, and which to wait until later.
BookBrowse Books News just out that Kirkus Reviews, one of the leading US prepub book review magazines founded in 1933, is to close. It's a great pity - their reviews, always written anonymously, tend to be insightful, sometimes with a wonderfully caustic sting in the tale.
BookBrowse Books Fisher Price bringing out Twoddler, so toddlers can tweet? Please, no!
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A tricked-out Fisher Price Activity Center with pictures of family members and friends attached and an Arduino board inside lets toddlers sent predefined messages to their own Twitter accounts. Read this blog post by Leslie Katz on Crave.
BookBrowse Books There was an interesting NY Times article yesterday noting that US Indie bookstores have been importing the third volume in the popular Stieg Larsson series from the UK and selling it to customers 6+ months ahead of the US publication date (to the point that the book is No.5 on the Indie bestseller list). The publishe...r says that importing in bulk violates their exclusive rights of distribution under the US Copyright Act, but indie bookstores say that it's not fair to not be able to offer the same books that people can get online (by shopping at overseas bookstores). What do you think?
www.nytimes.com
Booksellers are now importing British editions of “The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest,” the third volume in the best-selling series six months before its publication here.
BookBrowse Books Hello all, do you have any words of wisdom to help this book cluber ....? "The last several months there are more at each meeting who have not read the book than have, which doesn't make for much discussion. There are always lots of excuses .... It has turned into more of a social club - which I am not interested in. Any suggestions?"
BookBrowse Books "Jane Gardam's writing seems spilled as effortlessly onto the page as a watercolor wash, deceptively uncomplicated yet rich in detail, depth and drama." - so begins our review of "The Man in the Wooden Hat". Well known in the UK but not in the USA Jane Gardam is an author to discover if you enjoy books such as "On Che...sil Beach" and "The Elegance of the Hedgehog". Excerpt, review and backstory linked below:
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The Man in the Wooden Hat: Book review of The Man in the Wooden Hat by Jane Gardam, plus backstory and other interesting facts about the book.
BookBrowse Books I've just been listening to some wonderful stories from "Notwithstanding: Stories from an English Village" by Louis De Bernieres on BBC Radio 4. The collection was published in the UK in October (looks like it will be in Canada in summer 2010 but no date set for the USA as yet). Anyhow, a selection of short stories i...s available at the "Book at Bedtime" link below for the next few days (they're stored for 7 days then overriden by the next week's recordings. If you have just 15 minutes to spare I suggest "The Happy Death of the General". The "Saturday Play" about the Scopes Trial is also very good, but you'll have to visit today to catch that: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00nwz36
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Happy Thanksgiving to all American readers. Here are a few nuggets to mull over during this holiday season. Research indicates that: 1 in 6 Americans struggled to feed themselves and their children in 2008. The wealthiest 10% of Americans made 11 times more than those living on the poverty line (and the USA's 6 large...st banks set aside $112 billion, that's $112,000,000,000, to pay salaries and bonuses between Jan-Sep 2009). Meanwhile, contrary to "The American Dream" a research group recently found that social mobility is now less fluid in
the United States than in other affluent nations, that is to say, a poor child born in, for example,
Germany, France or Canada has a better
chance to join the middle class in adulthood than an American child
born into similar circumstances. Sourced from the article below
blogs.reuters.com
Call it a paradox of plenty. In the world’s wealthiest country, home to more obese people than anywhere else on earth, almost 50 million Americans struggled to feed themselves and their children in 2008. ...
BookBrowse Books The New Oxford American Dictionary has announced "unfriend" as its 2009 Word of the Year. Other candidates included sexting, paywall, intexticated (driving while texting), birther, green state, hashtag, and a whole host of variants on Twitter & Obama. Which newly minted word would you choose to win? More to the poin...t, if you could make a word, or concept, disappear from usage what would it be?
blog.oup.com
Birds are singing, the sun is shining and I am joyful first thing in the morning without caffeine. Why you ask? Because it is Word of the Year time (or WOTY as we refer to it around the office). Every ...
Cobb Saundy Always look forword to your reviews. Keep up the good work.
BookBrowse Books I just read an alarming article in yesterday's London Times about computers being used to mark exam essays (Britain puts much more emphasis on essays than the US with many national exams being 100% essay based). The computer failed Churchill's "Fight them on the beaches" speech, and also turned its nose up at Earnest ...Hemingway, William Golding and Anthony Burgess. What's most alarming is that The Times claims that computers are already being used to mark essay questions in the USA! Does anyone know if this is really the case?
www.timesonline.co.uk
They are some of the most memorable and stirring words of the 20th century, but Churchill’s speech exhorting the British to “fight on the beaches” would fail if submitted as a school essay and subjected to a proposed computerised marking system.
