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• Blyton ‘not good enough’ for BBC

  
  1stAngel Arts Magazine — Authority: 154
  Blyton not good enough for BBC -1.0 5 2009-11-15 16:50:47 1stAngel Letters and memos released by the BBC Archive show Enid Blyton’s work was not considered good enough to be broadcast for decades. The correspondence details how the creator of the Famous Five unsuccessfully asked for her work to be ...
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• Blogging The Graveyard Book 2/3

  
  Dreaming in Red — Authority: 116
  Chapter 4: The Witchs Headstone • How does Bod know about Baba Yaga ? Did Miss Lupescu tell him or is there a completely unmentioned Russian ghost in the graveyard? • Each time I read this sequence I am left wondering WTF a "snake stone" is. I have googled. I do not receive answers that seem to match the ...
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• Palin Über Alles

  
  Stinque — Authority: 546
  Title: “Going Rogue: An American Life” Author: Attributed to Sarah Palin Rank: 1 Blurb: “In this eagerly anticipated memoir, Palin paints an intimate portrait of growing up in the wilds of Alaska; meeting her lifelong love; her decision to enter politics; the importance of faith and family; and the ...
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• What You Should Read Next: Zeitoun

  
  BOOK CLUB CLASSICS! — Authority: 126
  Zeitoun by Dave Eggers Free Zeitoun Discussion Questions !! Release date/ Length : 2009 / 335 pages Synopsis (from The New Yorker ) : Abdulrahman Zeitoun, a successful Syrian-born painting contractor, decides to stay in New Orleans and protect his property while his family flees. After the ...
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• Book Review – Stories To Make Dark Days Fun (giveaway)

  
  Today from The OBE Community — Authority: 430
  Editor’s Note: Good afternoon. If you missed out on this morning’s post, you can catch Dr. Elaine Kerr’s educational piece on childrens eye health HERE. Now, we have two... This is a summary of the daily post at Ourbigearth.com. Click on the headline to read the whole story.
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• Life in the trenches of World War I

  
  The Risk Collective — Authority: 120
  " width="300" height="300" /> This book, first published in 1993, is a very moving tale of a young man whose life is devastated as a result of his participation as a soldier in the trenches of the First World War. The story begins before the war in middle class France where the young man embarks upon a consuming ...
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• Lets Book Club!: Open by Andre Agassi

  
  (London, ON:) Burgeoning Metropolis — Authority: 417
  For the record, I havent read Open (yet, Im planning on it), but theres been so much interesting commentary around the book that, being a tennis guy, I feel compelled to say something about my childhood idol. By now youve heard (or youre hearing now) about his father chaining him to the court in the early mornings, ...
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• Word Shakers On Line Book Club December Pick

  
  One Persons Journey through a world of Books — Authority: 140
  HI everyone!  With my recent trip and life stuff I am a bit behind on this post.  I want to thank everyone who participated in last months Word Shaker book discussion of The Help by Katherine Stockett.  I had a lot of fun with that book and it was great to discuss it with all of you! Our next read is going ...
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• The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls

  
  One Persons Journey through a world of Books — Authority: 140
  An eye opening read!  A book not to sit on a shelf but to be passed on as it is meant to be read!  ~ Sheila Jeannette Walls grew up with parents whose ideals and stubborn nonconformity were both their curse and their salvation. Rex and Rose Mary Walls had four children. In the beginning, they lived like ...
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• The Next Chapter: Laughter

  
  Chic & Green — Authority: 135
  These 3 guys give me my daily dose of laughter. "The most wasted of all days is one without laughter." ~e.e. cummings Its Friday again, so time for another brief discussion of the book The Joy Diet by Martha Beck. Im reading ...
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• The Hebrew Word for "Holy"

  
  Most Recent Posts — Authority: 584
  By Meredith Gould Last night, as I was reading comments to yesterdays post,Multiple Spirituality Disorder, it finally occurred to me that I may bewitnessing a generational shift in attitudes and perspectives toward interfaith dialogue and identity. (Does that makeme a great sociologist or what? Graduate school at NYU ...
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• Booming Book Clubs: A How-To Guide

  
  Carrie and Danielle — Authority: 436
  When I earned my degree and departed the world of academia, I missed very little about college life – sharing small apartments, living on coffee – I was done with the lifestyle. The one thing I found I really missed was the books; not only the reading lists of things I would never venture into on my own, but the ...
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• Historical Fiction: Bound for Repeat Readings

  
  Book Group Buzz - Discussion of Book Clubs, Reading Lists, and Literary News - Booklist Online — Authority: 422
  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 ...
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• Group Calls for Boycot of Scholastic Book Club Over Book Featuring Gay Parents

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 156
  The Illinois Family Institute (IFI), a conservative organization dedicated to upholding and reaffirming marriage and family life, has called for a boycott of Scholastic following the company’s decision to include Lauren Myracle’s controversial Luv Ya Bunches (Abrams/Amulet, 2009) in its spring 2010 middle school ...
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• Uwem Akpan’s Double Calling as Priest and Writer

  
  God's Politics Blog — Authority: 642
  While we’d love to think we inspired Oprah to choose Uwem Akpan’s Say You’re One of Them as her current book club pick, we are glad his collection of stories is getting lots of new readers. Last year we asked Sojourners contributing…
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• Speed Round: Doctor Voodoo and More

  
  Comic Book Club: Live! — Authority: 122
  Today’s show is a Speed Round!
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• art every day month + joy diet laughter, FRIDAY THE 13TH!

  
  Mother Henna — Authority: 422
  for art every day month + since Joy Diet this week is about laughter ... mwahhahahah! :) My sick & twisted animation for the day, in honor of the flu bug. Happy Friday the 13th. PS: Sorry, All, but Ive restored word-verification on comments to my blogs because I cannot stand the spammers any more. ...
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• 483 Pages of Dark and Twisted Horndoggy Goodness

  
  Cheaty Monkey — Authority: 116
  I was the only person in my entire book club of 12 Toronto bloggers who liked, nay LOVED, Australian author Christos Tsiolkas’ latest tome The Slap . Maybe it was the exhilaration of it all — the exhilaration I felt when I flipped the final 483rd page of the book exactly one hour before I had to drive ...
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• Goodreads: Vegan Book Club

  
  Invisible Voices — Authority: 492
  For all the reading I do I’ve never been in a book club until now. Maybe it’s the introvert thing! I joined a Vegan Book Club online, though, and I will be interested to see what it is like. It has only just started, so the members are in the process of getting our hands on and reading the first book. First ...
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• Blogging The Graveyard Book 1/?

  
  Dreaming in Red — Authority: 116
  Decembers book for Teen Book Club is Neil Gaimans The Graveyard Book , and it has occurred to me that it might be helpful if I actually took notes while reading this time so I can say something a little more insightful than "OMG best book evahhh" at the meeting. Which I shall say anyway and none of you will argue ...
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