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• December 8 in history

  
  Homepaddock — Authority: 559
  On December 8: 65 BC Horace , Roman poet, was born.   Horace, as imagined by Anton von Werner 1542   Mary Queen of Scots , was born. 1609  The Biblioteca Ambrosiana  in Milan opened its reading room, the second public library in Europe . 1660 Margaret Hughes became the first ...
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• What I Read This Month: November 2009

  
  Books Worth Reading — Authority: 112
  Cover of Under the Dome: A Novel It was a low-volume reading month — in terms of number of books read, if not number of pages, as you will see — and I wasn’t crazy about either book I finished last month. But I have already read two better books in December that won’t show up until next month’s roundup, ...
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• Most Influential Books?

  
  Writers Plot — Authority: 124
  stayed with me as much as Trapped! The Story of the Struggle to Rescue Floyd Collins from a Kentucky Cave in 1925 by Robert K. Murray and Roger W. Brucker. That tragedy seems ripped from the headlines over the pa posted by Jeanne Munn Bracken My friend Betty stopped by my desk the other day and reported that NPR ...
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• A Short History of Nearly EverythingLooking through my books...

  
  N.E.R.F. — Authority: 137
  A Short History of Nearly Everything Looking through my books really gets me thinking. This one was a graduating gift from my English teacher and all-round mentor and friend whom I really should’ve treated better but I was such an awkward and problematic kid. He wrote in the front cover: Dear Justin, I thought ...
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• Bill Bryson’s ‘Really Short History of Nearly Everything’ Is The Dream Gift … – Huffington Post (blog)

  
  Paranominal — Authority: 158
  Bill Brysons Really Short History of Nearly Everything Is The Dream Gift …Huffington Post (blog)Of course it is possible that alien beings travel billions of kilometres to amuse themselves by planting crop circles in the English countryside or …read the full article
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• Icons of English countryside disappearing fast, warns Bill Bryson

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 968
  Village pubs, phone boxes and other defining features of the English countryside need to be protected "before the only icons we have left are corporate logos", Bill Bryson, the author, has warned.
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• Sunday Salon Feeling Under the Weather Edition

  
  Well-Mannered Frivolity — Authority: 124
  I have bronchitis this week so my reading has had its ups and downs. Her Fearful Symmetry: A Novel by Audrey Niffenegger Not sure how I feel about this one. Its by the same author that brought us The Time Travelers Wife, which I greatly enjoyed. Her Fearful Symmetry was just odd. It was about ghosts and twins and ...
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• Lit. Angels Holiday Guide

  
  GamingAngels — Authority: 535
  There’s a lot of great new books this year to check out for the holidays.  Some of them are continuations in specific series, and we’ll let you know which ones in our recommendations.  If you think we left out an important recommendation, leave a comment and let us know! For Kids Title: The Evolution of ...
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• Hiking the Appalachian Trail?

  
  Hiking Lady — Authority: 119
  A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson If you want to read a humorous, well-written tale of a man’s journey with his friend hiking the Appalachian Trail, this book is for you. Bill Bryson, a trail novice at the outset of the book, tells his first-person story of his decision to hike the trail, ...
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