50 States of Literature: Meandering Through West Virginia | Columbia Spectator From the hills of West Virginia comes Ann Pancake’s debut Strange as This Weather Has Been, based on real events and interviews from an Appalachian mining town. Lace See and Jimmy Make fall in love in the era of the Buffalo Creek Disaster. Twenty […]
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Grafton, Sue. “T” Is for Trespass (2007)New York: Putnam, 400 pages ISBN: 0399154485Random House Audio, narrated by Judy Kaye Recommended Starting a new Sue Grafton novel always means getting reacclimatized to Kinsey’s world. For Kinsey (lucky woman), time is not passing nearly as quickly as it is for her readers. At the beginning of
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Web Sites Let Bibliophiles Share Books Virtually : NPR Think of it as Facebook or MySpace for people who’d rather browse in a book shop than go to a party. Book-centered sites like LibraryThing, Goodreads, Shelfari, aNobii and BookJetty, among others, allow readers to keep track of books they have read or books they want
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Even more than the blooming crocus, the regoldening goldfinches always mean spring to me. © 2008 by Mary Daniels Brown
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Amazon Kindle and Sony Reader Locked Up: Why Your Books Are No Longer Yours If you buy a regular old book, CD or DVD, you can turn around and loan it to a friend, or sell it again. The right to pass it along is called the “first sale” doctrine. Digital books, music and movies
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To Read or Not To Read: A Question of National Consequence [pdf] Click to access ToRead.pdf In 2004, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) published their groundbreaking report, “Reading at Risk,” which took a critical look at voluntary reading patterns and test scores, and revealed some rather dire trends along the way. November 2007
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Grason, Sandy. Journalution: Journaling to Awaken Your Inner Voice, Heal Your Life, and Manifest Your DreamsNovato, CA: New World Library, 2005ISBN 1-57731-483-2 There are A LOT of books about journal writing, so I almost didn’t pick up this one when I first saw it. But I’m glad I did. Grason covers all the usual aspects
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The lure of made-up memoirs – Los Angeles Times And here’s one more. The author of this piece compares the current faked memoir to Famous All Over Town, a first-person account of growing up in the gang culture of East L.A., published in 1983. That book, supposedly by a young Chicano writer named Danny Santiago,
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Bogus memoir sparks criticism of publishing industry – Los Angeles Times Here’s another reaction to the faked memoir by “Margaret B. Jones,” this one from Los Angeles, where the action of the book supposedly took place. This article goes further than does The New York Times by looking at this book as “part of a
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Fallout From a Literary Fraud – Love and Consequences – Margaret Seltzer – Margaret B. Jones – New York Times In a follow-up article to yesterday’s revelation about another faked memoir, publishers and editors defend themselves.
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