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The Mysterious Benedict Society, The Mysterious Benedict Society: and the Perilous Journey, The Mysterious Benedict Society: and the Prisoners Dilemma – by Trenton Lee Stewart An excellent series, appropriate for adults as well as children. The Legacy: The Legend of Drizzt, Book VII Starless Night: The Legend of Drizzt, Book…

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Books, Books, What I’ve Read So Far This Year

So here’s what I’ve read so far:   By Terry Pratchet: Wyrd Sisters, Witches Abroad What can you say about Pratchet?  He’s amazing, hysterical, wise, funny and insightful. I haven’t read anything by him that I didn’t like, a lot.  I recommend him highly.   By Terry Brooks: The Measure of the Magic, Bearers…

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David Schonauer’s Summer Reading List – PopPhoto – June 2006 “Photography is a matter of eyes, intuition, and intellect,”

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Bed Books, the revolutionary way to print books for comfortable reading in bed. Its about time someone did this…

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Top 50 Movie Adaptations (Which Ones I’ve Seen and Read)

Because Jason Kottke did it, and I’m shameless. Here is the list of 50 Top Film Adaptations and which ones I’ve seen and/or read.1. [M] 19842. [M] Alice in Wonderland3. [M] American Psycho4. [M] Breakfast at Tiffany’s5. Brighton Rock6. Catch 227. [M] Charlie and the Chocolate Factory8. A Clockwork Orange9.…

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Complete list – 2005 [OCLC – OCLC Top 1000] the intellectual works that have been judged to be worth owning by the "purchase vote" of libraries around the globe.

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The Little Men Who Love Little House – Why boys like girls books. By Emily Bazelon I read rather broadly when I was a kid, mostly because I would run out of books of my own and have to resort to whatever I could find around the house.

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Thackery on Hatred and Consistency

In describing the character and motivations of one Mr. Osborne toward a certain Mr. Sedley:One of the great conditions of anger and hatred is, that you must tell and believe lies against the hated object, in order, as we said, to be consistent.This is interesting for other reasons also, in…

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Thackery on Learning to Pray

Describing the not so venerable Mrs. Crawley:Picture to yourself, oh fair young reader, a worldly, selfish, graceless, thankless, religionless old woman, writhing in pain and fear, and without her wig. Picture her to yourself, and ere you be old, learn to love and pray!

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The Books I Read in 2005

Last Year, a couple people posted what they read the year before. The idea intrigued me, so I kept a list this year. This year saw a return for me to Science Fiction, and to some degree Fantasy. I have, for the past few years, been either too busy to…

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Links for July 5th, 2005

US donations to Africa outstrip that of Europe by 15 to 1Apparently the Make Poverty History and Live 8 campaigns did not take into account the private giving of US citizens and corporations which amount to over 22 billion a year, more than the US government gives.Required ReadingI’m always on…

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