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Starting Year No. 9. Getting a late start here as I am working through a few medical issues. Nevertheless, hre we go again. As always anything listed as [re-read] is either in preparation for the next book in a series or for my own pleasure 'cause it was a good read. So, my reading list for 2017:

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Okay - Here I am starting year #6. That's pretty damned good for me, so here we go again. As always, anything listed as [re-read] is either in preparation for the next book in a series or for my own pleasure 'cause it was a good read. So, my reading list for 2015:

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I see a number of my friends do this every year so I thought I would give it a try myself and see if I can make this thing work - plus seeing what putting it at a future date will do. Anything listed as (re-read) are either in preparation for the next book in a series or for my own pleasure 'cause it was a good read. So, my reading list for 2010 ( Read more... )

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I've been stumbling across these guys for a while now and I think it's a great place.
I mean, coffee and books in the same place? How can you possibly go wrong?


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Today, Tue. 06OCT09

Road Rage Remedy:
Suite for Orchestra No. 3 in D-major: - 2. Air "on the G String" by Johann Sebastian Bach

March of the Day:
Tripoli Temple by Charles Lloyd Barnhouse

The Worthless Word for the Day:
Thalian [pertaining to Thalia, the muse of comedy] of the nature of comedy; comic

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Today, Mon. 05OCT09

Road Rage Remedy:
Porgy & Bess: I Loves You, Porgy by George Gershwin

March of the Day:
Nobles of the Mystic Shrine by John Phillip Sousa

The Worthless Word for the Day:thiotimoline - a fictitious chemical compound conceived by science fiction author Isaac Asimov (first published in the March 1948 issue ( Read more... )

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Today, Fri. 02OCT09

Road Rage Remedy:
Ellens Gesang III, D 839/Op. 52 #6 "Ave Maria" by Franz Schubert

March of the Day:
The British 8th by Alonzo "Zo" Elliot

The Worthless Word for the Day:
lusk - [origin uncertain] idle, lazy, worthless {Johnson, 1822)

"The lapses of lusk water heard apart / As in a dream are heard love ( Read more... )

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Today, Thur. 01OCT09

Road Rage Remedy: Variations on an Original Theme, Op. 36 "Enigma": Variation 9, Nimrod by Sir Edward Elgar

March of the Day: Gallant Seventh by John Philip Sousa

The Worthless Word for the Day: gry ( Read more... )

.. and no, I'm not talking about Himself. I'm talking about the latest Penguin Newsletter listing their picks for the top 10 "essential" books. I don't feel too bad - I'm 5 for 10.http://us.penguingroup.com/static/pages/features/

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Today, Wed. 30SEP09

Road Rage Remedy: Improvisation on Pachelbel's "Canon" by Gabriela Montero (piano)

March of the Day: Watch of the Rhine by Franz von Blon

The Worthless Word for the Day: titivil ( Read more... )