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Category Archives: Book Readers
Friends and Strangers Can Get People Talking to Each Other
Hubby and I were treated Sunday night to a delightful home-cooked dinner at our friend Anne’s friends Bonnie and Ron’s home—in a heretofore unexplored (by us) location. Our Garmin failed us as we neared their residence, and our sense of … Continue reading
Ten Rules for Book Club Success
Do you belong to a book club, or are you thinking of starting one? I love the suggestions in a short piece yesterday in the Washington Post, referring to the “Third Tuesday Book Club.” First there is a list of … Continue reading
Posted in Book Readers
Tagged book club success, book clubs, Third Tuesday Book Club
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The New York Times Book Review and Me
I generally keep my posts to 4-5 paragraphs so my busy friends will consider reading them. I get it! This one’s longer, though. Look at it as a loping re-entry after I let the summer and my novel-writing grab my … Continue reading
Posted in Book Readers, Books and Authors, Ruminations
Tagged book reviews, Joyce Carol Oates, Monkey Mind, New York Review of Books, New York Times Book Review, Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving, Sunday mornings, Telegraph Avenue, Thomas Becket, Ulysses
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What My Teenaged Grandchildren Are Reading
Over July 4 week we were fortunate to have a bunch o’ family with us, including three of the grandkids. They thanked me profusely for recent book gifts, and all three were partway through those books–but only one actually had … Continue reading
Posted in Book Readers, Books and Authors
Tagged Alane Ferguson, Chuck Palahniuk, compassionate life, Damned, David Foster Wallace, Ernest Cline, Markus Zusak, Misery, reading for teenagers, Ready Player One, Stephen King, teenaged grandchildren, The Book Thief, The Christopher Killer, This Is Water, U. Mass. Amherst
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What’s That Book About?
Upon completing my read of Jennifer Egan’s book A Visit from the Goon Squad, I begged my husband, “Please, please, please make the next book you read this one. I need to talk with someone about it!” He did as … Continue reading
Posted in Book Readers, Books and Authors, Ruminations
Tagged A Visit from the Good Squad, Bryan Basamanowicz, feeling of inadequacy, Jennifer Egan, Lily King, Stonecoast
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Scuba Diving, Reading, and Serendipity
Books and water don’t mix, but that doesn’t mean a scuba diving vacation can’t also be packed with books and book talk. Hubby and I spent a lovely vacation scuba diving in Bonaire (Netherland Antilles) in the Caribbean, near Venezuela. … Continue reading
Let’s Talk Gray, I Mean Grey, and NPR Too
Let’s get one thing straight, right off the bat. The color gray, with an a, is the American spelling. Grey, with an e, is the British spelling. A person’s name may be either, of course. I have known for years … Continue reading
Posted in Book Readers, Books and Authors, In the Headlines
Tagged 3MF, 50 Shades of Grey, erotic fiction, Fifty Shades of Grey, gray or grey, Luis Alberto Urrea, NPR, Three-Minute Fiction
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New Uses for Used Books
Item 1: At breakfast in Genoa, Italy, the other day (heh-heh), at the start of our trip to walk Cinque Terre (out of this world vacation experience), I noticed how the hotel decorated its breakfast room. It felt like a … Continue reading
Posted in Book Readers, In the Headlines
Tagged book cover purse, book purse, NovelCreations
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Where Would You Be Without Your Library?
The M. N. Spear Library in Shutesbury, a small town in western Massachusetts, has put together a darling fundraising plea that makes you want to donate even though you have nothing to do with them or their town or their … Continue reading
Posted in Book Readers, Ruminations
Tagged fundraising video, library, M. N. Spears, Shutesbury
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Listener-friendly Automated Audiobooks
I’m pleased to let you know about a new offering from the company my husband has devoted much of his time to for the past eleven years (Lessac Techonologies, Inc.). The offering is an automated reading of certain classics in … Continue reading
Posted in Book Publishing or Selling, Book Readers, In the Headlines
Tagged audiobooks, automated audio, automatic narration system, classic literature, classics, Lessac Technologies Inc., Lessacaudiobooks, Narrator TM, text to speech
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