Monthly Archives: March 2010

Dress For Success, Johnathan Livingston Seagull and that Dilbert Anthology Must Go.

Still collecting books for the Laredo,Texas used book, book drive.

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Maggie Tulliver, 150 Years Old.

On the 150th anniversary of the publication of The Mill on the Floss, Kathryn Hughes celebrates George Eliot’s most deeply autobiographical novel in the guardian uk,

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A Whydunnit in Q-Sharp Major….With A Message.

The shortlist for The Lost Man Booker Prize – a one-off prize to honour the books published in 1970 that were not eligible for consideration for the Booker Prize – was announced last week. The six books on the list … Continue reading

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There’s a Bookstore in That Train Station.

The Philadelphia suburb of Mt. Airy, near where I grew up, has no lack of beautiful and unique train stations. But only one has a bookstore. Walk A Crooked Mile Books sells used books out of one the most historically … Continue reading

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The Singer Sewing Machine of Typewriters

From the Martin Howard Collection of Early Typewriters: The Underwood Typewriter was the first widely successful, modern typewriter. It pulled together the two main design elements that would be found on all later machines, a four-row keyboard with front strike … Continue reading

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The Book Reopened in Laredo

An amazing story of a town pulling together that is straight out of Little House on the Prairie. In response to the closing of the B. Dalton bookstore in Laredo, Texas which has left the city of over a quarter … Continue reading

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Childhood Obsession: Jane-Emily.

“There are times when the midsummer sun strikes cold, and when the leaping flames of a hearthfire give no heat. Times when the chill within us comes not from fears we know, but from fears unknown-and forever unknowable”. This is … Continue reading

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Perdu Dans La Traduction

My life was hurrying, racing tragically toward its end. And yet at the same time it was dripping so slowly, so very slowly now, hour by hour, minute by minute. One always has to wait until the sugar melts, the … Continue reading

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EBookophiles: Being Minimal and High Tech Doesn’t Make you any Less Pretentious Than ME.

The article Shelf Life in last Sunday’s New York Times magazine – insinuating that “traditional” book owners are pretentious phonies for shelving, stacking and throwing their books around their houses – is hypocritical (does it get any more pretentious than … Continue reading

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Time, Eminent Domain, Marches on and Into Lofts.

In an essay immortalizing Acres Of Books entitled “I Sing The Bookstore Eclectic” posted on their website, novelist Ray Bradbury describes the book store as “a labyrinth, a tomb, a catacomb, a maze. . . . In its dusty roundabout … Continue reading

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