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• Discover Your Path to Success – Part 2

  
  Your Life Creation — Authority: 127
  Video - Patr 2. Time taken for self-analysis is so important in developing your road map to success. Lets continue with a few more questions to ask yourself - before we go into the heart of the formula for personal success.
  4 days ago

• Horn Tooting: Library Journal/Newton and the Counterfeiter Edition

  
  The Inverse Square Blog — Authority: 459
  I’ve been waaay remiss in self aggrandizement/book hawking on this blog lately, so it is my pleasure to report that Library Journal put Newton and the Counterfeiter on its Best Books 2009 list . Money quote from the accompanying article: “What I looked for in my best books picks was unique voices,” ...
  6 days ago

• ‘Pearls’ of Wisdom While Talking Up a “Storm”

  
  Book Group Buzz - Discussion of Book Clubs, Reading Lists, and Literary News - Booklist Online — Authority: 467
  True life adventure stories are popular selections for book groups and usually get selected as “guy reader” bait. These adrenaline-rush narrative quests appeal to some male readers for the action and to some women readers for the soul-searching introspection. Last week I led a book group for Kansas City’s ...
  1 week ago

• Stories Behind the Story: The Case of the Runaway Dog

  
  James Preller's Blog — Authority: 126
  As we close in on Thanksgiving, and turkeys grow nervous, I thought I’d take a look at Jigsaw Jones #7: The Case of the Runaway Dog , since it features a Thanksgiving subplot. The book opens with Ralphie and Jigsaw discussing the relative merits of various holidays. “How about Thanksgiving?” Ralphie ...
  1 week ago

• Avoid the 158.1s

  
  This and That — Authority: 143
  I finished Barbara Ehrenreichs newest Bright-Sided just today at lunch. If your local library still uses the Dewey Decimal System, you may know that the 158.1 section is reserved for "self-help" books: how to feel better, how to increase your creativity, how to increase your self-esteem, your self-confidence, ...
  1 week ago

• Sexual terror kills people: a sort-of follow up to David Brooks’ sexual queasiness.

  
  The Inverse Square Blog — Authority: 459
  A few days ago I wrote this screed of disdain about David Brooks data-less, thoughtless complaint about the vapid sex lives of Kids These Days™.*  I have more than once commented on the evil consequences of marrying sexual queasiness to bad science, social or otherwise — and it struck me that  it is important ...
  1 week ago

• Palin Gives Oprah Best Ratings in Two Years

  
  GayPatriot — Authority: 645
  Sarah Palin may seek out the limelight, as some of her critics contend, but unlike most in this town (Hollywood) who see such attention, this much (and usually falsely) maligned Republican woman gets it.   AP tasks 11 Reporters to “fact check” her book .   The DNC churns out press releases at a rapid clip .  He ...
  1 week ago

• For the Mystery Book Group

  
  Book Group Buzz - Discussion of Book Clubs, Reading Lists, and Literary News - Booklist Online — Authority: 467
  Over at Points of Reference , Jessica is getting ready to start a mystery book group at her public library in January. She’s going to be using Read ‘em Their Writes as a source and is wondering if there are any other good selections tools out there. Funny you should ask, Jess. I recently put together a list ...
  1 week ago

• Authors You Should Try: Cory Doctorow

  
  Book Group Buzz - Discussion of Book Clubs, Reading Lists, and Literary News - Booklist Online — Authority: 467
  Even if you haven’t read books by Cory Doctorow, you probably know the name. His blogs, essays, and opinions seem to be everywhere, particularly in regards to digital culture, intellectual property, or technology. Doctorow almost always has an opinion, and whether or not one agrees with him, (like me, you’ll ...
  1 week ago

• Teaser Tuesday: Body of Evidence

  
  Mom on the Rise — Authority: 127
  TEASER TUESDAYS , hosted by MizB at Should be Reading : Grab your current read and let the book fall open to a random page. Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from that page Share the title of the book the “teaser” comes from … that way people can have some great book recommendations if they like the ...
  1 week ago

• Margaret Atwood

  
  Judy's Journal — Authority: 126
  inside out dress, ink on paper Margaret Atwood felt that to believe in success, to make that your measure, is dangerous. Success can always be taken away from you. There are only two things that are important: The writing for its own sake and a central private life. When asked in 1972 what she wanted, it wasnt ...
  1 week ago

• Scarf Wrapping: The Lotus Wrap

  
  The Crafty Princess Diaries — Authority: 122
  I’m still on the scarf wrapping band wagon . Here’s another video, and it shows how to make The Lotus Wrap.
  2 weeks ago

• Historical Fiction: Bound for Repeat Readings

  
  Book Group Buzz - Discussion of Book Clubs, Reading Lists, and Literary News - Booklist Online — Authority: 467
  I’ve been browsing my way through Sarah Johnson’s Historical Fiction II: A Guide to the Genre , one of the latest entries in the Genreflecting Advisory series from Libraries Unlimited. These big books are a browser’s paradise and ought to become familiar reference tools for in-the-know book group leaders as ...
  2 weeks ago

• Friday Book Club

  
  Nalini Singh's Weblog — Authority: 468
  This week has gone by so fast. I cant believe its Friday already! I read The Untamed Bride by Stephanie Laurens this week and loved it! Its the first book in her new Black Cobra Quartet, and I cant wait for the next book already. So, what are you reading and loving this week?
  2 weeks ago

• Free John MacArthur Book

  
  Pisteuo — Authority: 119
  center_tabs(); (HT: @mastersseminary) You can read the book online for free or purchase the hardcopy (only $14.99) athttp://grace.ly/foolsgold. In case you are unfamiliar with this book, here is the table of contents, complete with links:About the Contributors 9 Editors Introduction John MacArthur 13 Part ...
  2 weeks ago

• You Don’t Know Jack

  
  Book Group Buzz - Discussion of Book Clubs, Reading Lists, and Literary News - Booklist Online — Authority: 467
  My wife and I have been reading Shadowlands aloud the last few nights. Many of you know this work from the film featuring Anthony Hopkins and Deborah Winger, but William Nicholson’s play is about events late in the life of C. S. Lewis. Lewis never liked “Clive Staples.” When he lost a beloved dog as a boy, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Revolutionary Scarf Ideas

  
  The Crafty Princess Diaries — Authority: 122
  I recently received a review copy of The Wrapping Scarf Revolution by Patricia Lee ( published by Leisure Arts ; $16.95 US), and when I first started reading through it, I have to admit I wasn’t really sure what to think about it. It took me awhile to understand the focus because the idea is simply but at the same ...
  2 weeks ago

• Second Book of the Weekend

  
  This and That — Authority: 143
  Ad astra per aspera. "Through hardships to the stars." Whatever Happened to the World of Tomorrow? by Brian Fies is written as an autobiography, and I put it in the same catagory as Chuck Klostermans Eating the Dinosaur essays in that it deals mostly with technology. However just as much as it deals with ...
  2 weeks ago

• Over the Weekend Reading

  
  This and That — Authority: 143
  I finished two books over the weekend. The first was John Connollys new book The Gates : Scientist are not after the truth; it is the truth that is after scientists. ~Dr. Karl Schlecta (1904-1985) I knew of John Connolly from working here at the library but he seemed to be an author along the lines of ...
  2 weeks ago

• All you need to know about the modern press, (The Push Cart War Edition)…

  
  The Inverse Square Blog — Authority: 459
  …you can find in my kid’s fourth grade reading assignment, that classic, Jean Merrill’s  The Pushcart War . In Chapter IX, “The Secret Campaign Against the Pushcarts,” Merrill describes the truckers’ skillful use of captive media.  An anonymous columnist in a weekly owned by one of the truck companies ...
  2 weeks ago

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