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It feels like this happened last week though it actually happened twenty years ago. Late one wintry afternoon in 1992 I found myself sitting on a sofa in a glass box in midtown Manhattan, trying to figure out how I could possibly stay awake till sundown. I had just enjoyed a long celebratory liquid lunch with Gary Fisketjon , who would soon be publishing my first novel and who, as I’d learned first-hand, is a master of an art that was then dying and is now all but dead – the art of editing fiction, line by agonizing line.
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Free Complete Works of H.P. Lovecraft for Nook and Kindle – Cthulhu Chick
In early December (2010), I used a file from the Australian Project Gutenberg to create an EPUB of most of Lovecraft’s works. It wasn’t a comprehensive file and while it’s been popular (just having hit 1,000 downloads this morning, in under 3 months), it isn’t what I want for my own use or what the librarian-in-training in me thinks should be out there. So, after several months of working on the project when I could—snatching minutes and hours between work, grad school, and making Cthulhus —I am very proud to announce that I have finished an eBook of The Complete Works of H.P.
Insatiable Booksluts | Two voracious readers tell you if that book is going to suck.
Today’s reading rage covers a topic that annoys not only me, but just about everyone in the book industry.
A reproduction in one unique volume of three of Agatha Christie's rarest and most sought-after books - Star Over Bethlehem, The Road of Dreams and ...
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I know liking Star Trek is often cited as an indication of immaturity, but when I was a sensitive ten-year-old and watched it for the first time, an episode called, "Where No Man Has Gone Before", it seemed not only adult, but funny, moving, exciting, and smart in equal measure.
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Save the date! Wednesday, June 6th @ 8:30 PM at Union Hall (702 Union St. Brooklyn). Comedians with Books features the funniest authors in NYC doing anything but reading from their own boring books! Come see a night of great stand-up comedy from humorists who have all penned novels, memoirs, and gift books you got for mom last Mother’s Day. Hosted by Better Book Titles creator, Dan Wilbur .
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Summary Here is the classic—and true—story of Vyry, the child of a white plantation owner and his black mistress, a Southern Civil War heroine to rival Scarlett O'Hara.
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David AlmondWhile we were at the Goodwill last month, Alberto came up with a few other ideas.
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It’s “his holy hotness Mr. Neil Gaiman” browsing... - Hot Guys Reading Books
There are plenty of attractive men in the world, but unfortunately few of them that are avid readers. Welcome to "Hot Guys Reading Books" the blog that scours the internet for examples of luscious literary men and gathers the evidence in one place. Don't think the guys are hot enough?#FridayReads
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Enter to Win a Copy of The Starboard Sea by Amber Dermont for Your Group We are celebrating the release of The Starboard Sea by Amber Dermont with a special contest. The book tells the story of a young boy in boarding school navigating the tricky waters of his senior year at an elite prep school, where he is haunted by the suicide of a friend.LIBRARIES
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