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Delacorte to Release Collection of Unpublished Vonnegut Stories
By Lynn Andriani
Kurt Vonnegut’s longtime publisher, Delacorte Press, has announced it will issue 14 never-before published short stories by the author, who died in 2007, in a new collection, Look ( Read more... )

This is odd:  https://www.timecmg.com/mine/

Time magazine is offering to customize a magazine just for you, depending on your interests. You choose five out of eight magazines from which content will be drawn and placed in your custom magazine, called Mine. You get five free issues and all you have to do is answer five simple questions. Advertising ( Read more... )

Today I watched and listened while Lucas learned to read. Today was the first day that he tried sitting down with an easy reader book and started decoding. I not only heard him sounding out words, but I heard the distinct snap of his brain putting together various small skills into a coherent process. It was awesome.

As a Waldorf kid, Lucas is not ( Read more... )

"Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers." -Charles W. Eliot

I like new books more than warm cookies straight from the oven. This past Sunday we picked up the following books from the UUSS bookstore.

Umberto Eco : Baudolino
Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child : Riptide and Dance of Death
Kate Jacobs : The Friday Night Knitting Club
Kaya McClaren : On the Divinity of Second Chances
Elizabeth Gilbert : Eat, Pray, ( Read more... )

Teenaged vampires? Forbidden young love? You say a movie is coming out? Hand me the book! 
    I devoured Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight in just a few days during brief moments between editing jobs. Having always enjoyed vampire stories (Bram Stoker, Anne Rice), I figured it would be a lark to read this new young adult series that is getting so much ( Read more... )

Especially for Ian, because this is one of his favorite authors:

Chuck Palahniuk


"All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring."

Devotees of two of the geekiest interests (Classics and stamp collecting) teamed up to make a geeky book: Greek Rural Postmen and their Cancellation Numbers. And then some more geeky folks judged its geekiness.

I'm feeling sleepy and like the best thing to do right now is to go back to bed. I have a lot of work on my plate this week, which is a good thing. But even so, I don't wanna do it yet.

So, here's a little book meme for fun.

Directions:

* Grab the nearest book.
* Open the book to page 56.
* Find the fifth sentence.
* Post the text of the next two to five ( Read more... )

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