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Authors tend to be readers, so it is natural for them to create characters who like to read.  It is always interesting to me to read what...

  These BabyLit books are adorable!  I have Little Master Carroll and Little Miss Brontë in front of me, but there are several more av...

Most are stopped by the start.  Identify your bamboo and start watering. -- Bamboo Farmer Wisdom: 101 Inspirational Thoughts by Greg...

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American history books do little to describe the plight of New York City during the Revolution for the simple reason that it was an enemy b...

Please join me every Friday to share the first sentence (or so) of the book you are reading, along with your initial thoughts about the ...

Uh oh. I jumped on the Pinterest bandwagon .  It is too fun to skip. I'm there as Gilion Dumas .  So far, I've created boards ...

FDR was famous for his fierce attacks on big business and "economic royalists."  But those who pose as his liberal heirs forget, ...

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100 Poems to Bestill Your Young Heart is an exuberant collection poetry by Portland writer Kenneth Woods.  Woods -- who is still in high ...

  The Black Book is the fourth novel in Ian Rankin 's Edinburgh-based series featuring hard-bitten police detective John Rebus. This...

Please join me every Friday to share the first sentence (or so) of the book you are reading, along with your initial thoughts about the ...

Forgive me my denomination and my town; I am a Christian minister and an American. A Month of Sundays by John Updike . This rather coy b...

Quite often, by the time the relationship becomes sexualized, the victim is already deeply immersed; she has already heavily invested her h...

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Herb Caen was San Francisco's legendary newspaper columnist. Barnaby Conrad describes Caen's prodigious work product in his intro...

Please join me every Friday to share the first sentence (or so) of the book you are reading, along with your initial thoughts about the ...

  Tinkers is a short book, but irritated me in a way that usually takes a longer book to do. I wanted to like it because I liked the ide...

World Without End is the sequel to Ken Follett's spectacular Pillars of the Earth . Pillars takes place in the 1100s, during the c...

As late as March, the Klamath still flowed high and muddy, still churned with rocks and snags and root wads.  In that month, Happy Camp...

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There are three German cookbooks in my cookbook library.  Given my Bavarian roots, I would think I'd have a few more.  But given the . ....