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Surf Fiction for Dog Days
There’s something about diving into a surf mystery that relieves the dog days of August. It just fits and I’ve finished a great surf mystery by Don Winslow, The Dawn Patrol. There are few things more...
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Edinburgh’s book sculptures go on tour
The mysterious and beautiful book sculptures that were anonymously left around Edinburgh are finally doing a tour together. Starting in Aberdeen then ending up back at the Scottish Poetry Library...
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The Power of One
Bryce Courtenay who wrote the popular novel The Power of One recently died. His New York Times obituary mentioned that when greeted on the street by someone he would write down their name and address...
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Heller at Home
Target Lancer by Max Allan Collins There’s a sense half way through “Target Lancer” that Max Allen Collins has maybe found a crime that looms too large in the American psyche to cleanly tackle. The...
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Hornby’s Folly
Housekeeping vs. The Dirt, by Nick Hornby. I ran across this at a library. It was on display and it basically jumped into my hands. Just like that. I didn’t even know I was looking for it. Thus is the...
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Horses from a Songbook
Songbook, by Nick Hornby, or, Why I Stopped Worrying and Loved the Song. “You could, if you were perverse, argue that you’ll never hear England by listening to English pop music. The Beatles and the...
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Retail Approach or Library Approach? Shaping Readers’ Advisory, by John Schoppert | Booklist Online. The landscape of reading is always shifting, and libraries and bookstores are sharing practices each...
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