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R&BLers: Men Don’t Read
I was casting around for something to write about (between power failures all day) and my train of thought was going along lines something like this. “Limelite, you run a group devoted to book...
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R&BLers: The Uncommon Commonplace Book
Because you just can't write a controversial diary every week and jiggle the plaque loose from your readers' arterial walls without someone suffering a heart attack and readership declining, the...
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e-Readers & Book Lovers Club: Longitude -- Reading Between the Lines
Imagine yourself an ancient mariner. Not in the sense of aged, but in the sense of one sailing the seas 1,000 years ago. Yes, you could sail, but what we call navigation was, at best,...
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R&BLers: It's a Matter of Taste
Due to technical difficulties caused by Mama Nature and exacerbated by my bad attitude, I have only just now (5:00 PM ET) fixed those problems and don't have time tonight to write a proper post....
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Hey, Book Lovers, What's in Your TBR Stack?
Buying books is a guilty pleasure I'm beginning to feel truly guilty about indulging in. I think I may have a habit that's becoming an addiction. Cold turkey may be the only cure. The trouble is. ....
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Daily Kos Reading Habits Fun Survey
Football season’s underway, baseball season’s getting into the “good part,” basketball season would like to start practices in a few weeks but has labor trouble – drama!, and the prospect of...
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R&BLers: When It's Not
This is NOT the regular TUE 8PM ET R&BLers newsletter you're used to. Remember last week when I told you that aravir had stepped into the breech of my lightning induced woes with a replacement...
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e-Readers & Book Lovers Club: Longitude -- Reading Between the Lines II
Continuing the discussion of Dava Sobel's Longitude. It’s one thing to marvel at the dedication and discipline of one man who without formal training, working nearly alone and nearly without pay,...
View ArticleMiami-Dade County Government: Friend to Labor!
Rejoice! There's one place in a reddish-purple state that remains a bastion of liberalism in protecting the working man's rights and it's the Miami-Dade County Commission that approved the county...
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R&BLers: The Big Read – What Makes a Literary Canon Go BOOM?
We've all heard of it. We all have an opinion about it. We all have our own idea what it means in regard to our personal degree of feeling educated. And we all recognize our inner desire to have a...
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R&BLers: On Fire with the Desire to Read Again
This is a hard post to write because I’m not at all a backward looking person. I’m not nostalgic about my past, I have no yearning to go back in time and be 20 years old again, I don’t remember good...
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e-Readers & Book Lovers Club: Ad Astra per Diaspora
How do you write fairly about a book you didn’t really like? Maybe “didn’t really understand” is more accurate. Why I didn’t like this novel: One of my pet peeves is books that read like screen...
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e-Readers & Book Lovers Club Selection Announcement
What ho, device types! Hear that drum roll in the background? Knew you did. That's because I'm here to announce the selection for our next e-book read. By popular acclaim, we will be discussing...
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e-Readers & Book Lovers Club: To Those Who Appreciate Wisteria and Sunshine
“Were it only that some enchantment would step in for us all, to change what we have into what we wish for. To bridge the awkward gap between all of our many befores and afters. Because, for every...
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e-Readers & Book Lovers Club Selection Announcement
What ho, device types! Hear that drum roll in the background? Knew you did. That's because I'm here to announce the selection for our next e-book read. By popular acclaim, we will be discussing a...
View ArticleNein, Nein, Nein! It's the 6-6-6 Plan for Me!
Have you heard of Australian economist John Quiggin? Well, I hadn't, even though he's considered to rank among the top 500 economists in the world, is a professor at the University of Queensland,...
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R&BLers: Do You Lendle?
So many R&BLers are owners of e-readers, those habit forming devices that allow us to carry a world of libraries and bookstores in our hands and enable us to have instant access to them and, with...
View ArticleR&BLers Friday Fun & Games
No harm in amusing ourselves in these troubled times. Everyone needs a break from the distressing conditions of life for far too many Americans and from the meritorious but exhausting efforts of...
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e-Readers & Book Lovers Club: To Gaze Upon the Truth and Not Blink
Anna Badkhen's collation of dispatches from the background to the war in Afghanistan were originally published in Foreign Policy and span a period of three weeks in country that she spent looking for...
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e-Readers & Book Club: For Our Next Read
There's no denying it. R&BLers have eclectic tastes. They also have a strong sense of commitment to building community. Thus, while this week's announcement of our next selection for the e-Book...
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