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Monthly Archives: September 2010
Are You Still There, God? It’s Me, Blubber.
It’s Banned Books Week again and across the country, libraries, bookstores, teachers and readers are celebrating that which our founding fathers labored over quills and parchment for and our father and forefathers fought and died for, the very freedoms that we alone … Continue reading
Posted in Banned Books
Tagged are you there god it's me margaret, banned book week, banned books blubber, banned books blume, banned books judy blume, blubber, deenie, forever judy blume, judy blume
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Privatizing the Public Library.
from the new york times Anger as a Private Company Takes Over Libraries SANTA CLARITA, Calif. — A private company in Maryland has taken over public libraries in ailing cities in California, Oregon, Tennessee and Texas, growing into the country’s … Continue reading
Posted in Libraries and Librarians
Tagged Libraries and Librarians, library systems and services, los angeles county library system, LSSI, privatizing libraries, public iibraries, santa clarita library
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And Then There Were Fewer.
(spoiler alert). First, there were ten….. a curious assortment of strangers summoned as weekend guests to a remote island off the coast of Devon. Their host, an eccentric millionaire unknown to all of them, is nowhere to be found. All … Continue reading
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Tagged agatha christie, and then there were none, family guy and then there were none, mystery novels, walter murphy, walter murphy family guy
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On the Nightstand
The Art of Virtue by Benjamin Franklin
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Never Let Me Go: What happens when novelist and screenwriter are friends
From The Afterword Reading Society Nine months before it was published, Alex Garland read the manuscript of Kazuo Ishiguro’s new novel, Never Let Me Go. It took him less than a day to finish, and later that evening called up … Continue reading
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Tagged alex garland, kazuo ishiguro, mark romanek, never let me go, never let me go movie, novelist screenwriter
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Infinite Sadness.
A new novel by the late David Foster Wallace, set in an Internal Revenue Service office in Illinois, will be published April 15, Tax Day. Titled “The Pale King†, the book was was unfinished when the author committed suicide … Continue reading
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Tagged david foster wallace, depression, infinite jest, suicide
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MURDER MANOR.
It’s Agatha Christies’ 120th Birthday, so here is her scary house.
Posted in Authors, Literary Journeys
Tagged agatha christie, agatha christie home, agatha christie house, greenway estate, greenway estate murder, murder manor
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On the Nightstand
Freedom By Jonathan Franzen Buy Indie
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Never Let Me Go To Boarding School.
Ah, the English boarding school of fiction! Happy schoolgirls scrambling over undulating green hills and hedgerows to classrooms in former manors or castles. Twins, unruly tomboys, sheltered small town bumpkins, spoilt brats, mysterious foreign exchange girls, sexually ambiguous jocks who … Continue reading
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Tagged a little princess, antonia white, boarding school, british boarding schools, fernanda grey, frost in may, leonie de wesseldorf, lucy snow, sara crewe, the prime of miss jean brodie, villette
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