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Bluffton: My Summers with Buster Keaton by Matt Phelan 20 Aug 2013 | 06:48 am
I believe I first saw Bluffton by Matt Phelan at Shelf Awareness and thought “hmm that looks interesting.” In the summer of 1908, in Muskegon, Michigan, a visiting troupe of vaudeville performers is ...
The Last Battle by Stephen Harding 19 Aug 2013 | 01:25 am
When I saw the title to the last book that I read (The Last Battle: When U.S. and German Soldiers Joined Forces in the Waning Hours of World War II in Europe) , I was intrigued. I had never heard of A...
The Art of the Negative Review: “Night Film” Edition 17 Aug 2013 | 06:47 am
David L. Ulin in the LA Times Book Review offers a rather brutal take on Marisha Pessl‘s latest: Partway through Marisha Pessl’s second novel, “Night Film,” I began to feel as if I had been taken hos...
Video: Barter Books and the story of Keep Calm and Carry On 14 Aug 2013 | 07:02 pm
via Alan Jacobs who calls it a “tiny masterpiece.” Hard to argue with that.
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern (Audio) 13 Aug 2013 | 08:06 am
The Night Circus was one of those books that I always wanted to read but just never got around to reading. I have been listening to audio books lately, however, and so this has added some space to my ...
The Wanderer in Unknown Realms by John Connolly 7 Aug 2013 | 07:58 am
I am a fan of inexpensive and innovative writing delivered electronically so I am a fan of the Kindle Single program and have read a few books in that format. I picked up John Connolly‘s The Wanderer ...
Book Find: The Mousewife by Rumer Godden 3 Aug 2013 | 07:24 pm
As regular readers will know, I am a sucker for well designed and illustrated children’s classics. So when I stumbled on The New York Review Children’s Collection volume of The Mousewife by Rumer God...
Episode 1: Book of Secrets (The Daring Adventures of Captain Lucy Smokeheart) 27 Jul 2013 | 07:57 pm
While we were on vacation I was on the lookout for books my daughter could read; books that would hold her interest during a summer where the normally avid readers seemed distracted. I grabbed Episod...
Stories in Uniform: A Look at the Heroics, Sacrifices, and Triumphs of Our Soldiers 26 Jul 2013 | 06:04 am
I have a special affinity for short stories of America’s soldiers at war. Reader’s Digest recently published a compilation of these stories in Stories in Uniform: A Look at the Heroics, Sacrifices, an...
Voyage with the Vikings by Paul McCusker, Marianne Hering (Imagination Station #1) 19 Jul 2013 | 10:09 pm
Voyage with the Vikings, the first in the Imagination Station series, is yet another book I picked up for free for my Kindle. It is also a book I picked up for my daughter to read but wanted to read ...
