Archive for: May, 2010
May 31, 2010
May's Why-I-Love-Books Roundup
May is a fantastic month. Not like cold February or boring September: it’s got spunk. The weather turns warm and the flowers bloom and the mosquitoes start breeding . . . Here …
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May 27, 2010
Algonquin-Approved Summer Reading
Show of hands: who secretly loved those summer reading assignments in grade school? As your classmates groaned while the reading lists were passed out, you rubbed your hands in glee, picturing long …
May 26, 2010
Excerpt: Far Bright Star
Today we have an excerpt form Robert Olmstead‘s Far Bright Star. This novel, which came out last year and is new in paperback, has gleaned some high praise and won the Western …
May 25, 2010
BookExpo AMERICAAAAA!
I came to work today in my “Reading Is Sexy” T-shirt, dragon knee-socks, and USA sweatband. I led the office in some stretches and then we laid out the buffalo wings and …
May 24, 2010
Peep Show: Sneak Peep
A little about Joshua Braff‘s new book, Peep Show: David Arbus will be graduating from high school in the spring of 1975. His divorced parents offer two options: embrace his mother’s Hasidic …
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May 21, 2010
Ask Dr. Bleedingheart
Dear Dr. Bleedingheart, I have recently adopted some pet snails. Now they are having snail babies! The soil in the terrarium has little tiny bugs in it; I think they might have …
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May 20, 2010
Author Q&A: Heather Lende
Heather Lende is many things: wife, mother, obit writer, Alaska spokesperson, radio personality, all-around-inspiration, and author of If You Lived Here, I’d Know Your Name. Now she’s back with a new memoir, …
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May 19, 2010
Week 4: 2 Loaves (2 Lessons)
My 4th week of following the advice and recipes from William Alexander‘s fabulous book, 52 LOAVES: One Man’s Relentless Pursuit of Truth, Meaning and a Perfect Crust, was the week my levain …
