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Reading Journal 6

READING JOURNAL 6   It is Monday morning and I don’t have to go to work. That’s not quite right. It’s Monday morning and until

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Judge a Book by its Cover?

BODICE RIPPERS   Some of the best fun in running this book review site is the unexpected, like Joanna Bourne’s The Forbidden Rose, just reviewed by Ann

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Hooray for Books Inc.!

Good news from Shelf Awareness: Compass Books Rebooked at SFO’s Terminal 3 Books Inc. scores another hit for independent bookstores! Books Inc. has won the

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Reno Community Poem Project

As Reno’s own Poet Laureate, Gailmarie Pahmeier is looking for a few good lines about our favorite city, Reno. Check out the particulars at Sierra

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Washoe Co. Library’s Events

DECEMBER NEWSLETTER OF LIBRARY ACTIVITIES, WASHOE CO. LIBRARY To all our friends in Northern Nevada, I couldn’t pass up the Washoe County Library calendar of

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Reading Literary Fiction is Good for You

Reading Literary Fiction is Good For You Bookin’ with Sunny reviewer Vivienne French just sent in this interesting and/or amusing article worth passing on: http://mic.com/articles/104702/science-shows-something-surprising-about-people-who-love-reading-fiction Science

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Mark Strand

Mark Strand, April 11, 1934 – November 29, 2014 Keeping Things Whole In a field I am the absence of field. This is always the

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The Curiosity of Engagement

The Curiosity of Engagement I am almost one hundred and fifty pages away from the end of Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven. Up to

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The Girl on the Road

The Girl on the Road No, this is not a review of Monica Byrne’s fabulous The Girl in the Road (I’m working on that very

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