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New books and such

October 3, 2009

Today, my son and I spent a few hours browsing the bookstore and after much grabbing and drooling, we selected two picture books and a little something longer. We had a terrible time finding the copy of The Little Prince. Instead of being in Kid’s Fiction, or even in Kid’s Storybooks, it was in Fiction [...]

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McBook Press is getting Kindle-ified.

March 20, 2009

McBooks Press, an independent publisher and catalog retailer of historical fiction, has added more Kindle editions to it’s library, available of course through Amazon.com. Sad news for us Sony users.

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My Reader is finally here!

March 7, 2009

My Sony Reader is finally here! It arrived bright and early yesterday morning. I’m loving it so far, even if I can’t read my bought-and-paid-for Mobipocket files on it. I guess I won’t be buying that format anymore. It’s too much of a pain to convert them to something usable. I have had a little [...]

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Goodbye Madeleine

September 7, 2007

Author Madeleine L’Engle passed away today at the age of 88. Her books were my constant companions when I was a child and I owe her my love and thanks for unknowingly helping me through such a rough part of my life. 1918 – 2007 She will be missed.

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Quotes: A Clockwork Orange

May 23, 2007

But, brothers, this biting of their toe-nails over what is the cause of this badness is what turns me into a fine laughing malchick. They don’t go into what is the cause of goodness, so why of the other shop? If lewdies are good that’s because they like it, and I wouldn’t ever interfere with [...]

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Quotes: Peter and Wendy

May 22, 2007

It is the custom of every good mother after her children are asleep to rummage in their minds and put things straight for next morning, repacking into their proper places the many articles that have wandered during the day. If you could keep awake (but of course you can’t) you would see your own mother [...]

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