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Agatha Christie, Queen of non-crime fiction?

Thursday, December 31, 2009

I once wrote a book report on an Agatha Christie mystery novel and mused, “I wonder if Agatha Christie ever wrote any other type of book?” Actually, yes, yes she did. She had the Hitchchockian curse of never being able to wander outside her genre under her own name so she adopted the psuedonym Mary [...]

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Netflix for books?

Thursday, November 12, 2009

The idea of a Netflix style service for books thrills and excites me (though that might be redundant). Enter Book Swim. A couple problems: 1. For the price they’re charging, you might as well buy the books. 2. The local library will do the same service for free via their holds system (minus the convenient [...]

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Library Smut

Friday, October 9, 2009

These libraries are hot (this is not porn, merely pictures of libraries. I assure you all the libraries are fully covered in books).

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Literary musings…

Friday, October 2, 2009

“Where’s Papa going with that ax?” said Fern to her mother as they were setting the table for breakfast. With a first line like that, Charlotte’s Web could have gone in so many different directions…

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