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my Hunger Games review
33 days ago
by monster cakes
I assume you all know about the Hunger Games series? If you do, in fact, live under a rock, then read about the books here and watch the upcoming movie trailer here. Many of you requested that I talk about my thoughts on the series, which I felt reluctant to do because there are already many fabulou ...
monster cakes - monster-cakes.blogspot.com · Rank: 87,172 · 10 references
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2012 Book List
33 days ago
by Toryn
Books Read in 2012 Making Maggie "Little Miss Tri-County", Maggie Messina (non-fiction/memoir) In-Progress Best American Short Stories: 2011, Geraldine Brooks, editor (fiction) On-Deck
This is a list of what I ... - toryncat.livejournal.com · 11 references
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A Parliament of Spies by Cassandra Clark
33 days ago
by brodartvibe
Medievalists rejoice! That was Publisher’s Weekly’s rallying cry around A Parliament of Spies, Cassandra Clark’s newest 14th-century whodunit. Hildegard of Meaux, a Cistercian Abbess, is once again in the thick of things and may be the best person to solve the mysteries swirling around the archbisho ...
BrodartVibe's Blog - brodartvibe.wordpress.com · 3 references
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Kobo Book Buyers Up 10x At Christmas On New E-Reader Gifts
33 days ago
by Robert Andrews
E-reader maker Kobo says it got a 10x uplift in new global e-book customers this holiday period, compared with earlier in the year, as new owners began filling gifted gadgets with titles. But the company, recently acquired by Japanese e-tail giant Rakuten, did not state actual sales figures for eith ...
mocoNews - moconews.net · Rank: 4,860 · 209 references
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‘Immortal Marilyn’ in New Hampshire
33 days ago
by marina72
John De Vito and Frank Tropea, authors of Immortal Marilyn: The Depiction of an Icon (Scarecrow Press, 2007), will give a free lecture on MM in the Levenson Community Room, Portsmouth Public Library, New Hampshire, on January 18 at 7.3o pm. As their book focused on representations of Marilyn in the ...
ES Updates - blog.everlasting-star.net · Rank: 105,323 · 4 references
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Kobo Book Buyers Up 10x At Christmas On New E-Reader Gifts
33 days ago
by Robert Andrews
E-reader maker Kobo says it got a 10x uplift in new global e-book customers this holiday period, compared with earlier in the year, as new owners began filling gifted gadgets with titles. But the company, recently acquired by Japanese e-tail giant Rakuten, did not state actual sales figures for eith ...
paidContent - paidcontent.org · Rank: 117 · 1465 references
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Black and White (and a bit in between) by Celerie Kemble
33 days ago
by christina @ greige
I am a firm believer in the use of black in design, I am sure we all know that. I think it gives that classic clean edge that every space needs. I put this book on my Christmas list this year (I am a design book junkie) and I completely LOVE it! I am amazed by how many of the photos in the book I ha ...
greige: interior design ... - greigedesign.blogspot.com · Rank: 2,192 · 399 references
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A Rare Look at Samuel Beckett’s Doodle-Filled Notebooks
33 days ago
by Maria Popova
What colored crayons have to do with deadpan philosophical humor and the gargoyles of Notre-Dame. Novelist, playwright, poet, and Nobel laureate Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) is one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. As a hopeless lover of marginalia and voyeur of famous creators’ not ...
Brain Pickings - brainpickings.org · Rank: 158 · 646 references
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*Rethinking the Good*, by Larry Temkin
33 days ago
by Tyler Cowen
The subtitle is Moral Ideals and the Nature of Practical Reasoning. Without hesitation I paid full price for this book, in this case $74 though since then the price is falling. While not an easy read, it is the most important work in choice theory and social choice in some time. Why does the transit ...
Justeconomics - justeconomics.wirtschaftsdenker.de · Rank: 61,258
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The Serpent's Toys
33 days ago
by The Emerald Serpent
Izzie has a soft spot for stationery, journals and books of all sorts. This time of year is especially tempting with all those delightful diaries out there and the promise of a year of productivity with just the right diary proving to be the ultimate weapon against the demons of procrastination Deci ...
The Lair of the Emerald ... - izmeina.livejournal.com · 2 references
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