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  1. namedujour

    Books for Katrina Victims

    I live in Ellis County, Texas, which is hosting refugees from Hurricane Katrina. I am volunteering with the local chapter of the Salvation Army, and have begun a drive to collect books, which the Salvation Army will distribute to the victims in the various shelters around this area. These...
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    Hotdog Book Reviewers

    Before the Internet, we were all more or less dependent upon professional literary critics, best seller lists, and word-of-mouth to determine whether or not a book was worth reading. You may not agree with a critic, but he or she had "qualifications" of some sort. Now everyone with a keyboard...
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    New Amazon Feature - good for authors!

    I was on Amazon last night, and evidently caught them testing a new feature. It's gone this morning, but I've seen them do this before. I expect to see the feature back in a week or so. In addition to "People who bought (viewed) this book also bought (viewed)" they listed the percentage of...
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    Interesting observation: Books vs. films

    I just signed up for Netflix, so I've been trolling through movie reviews while I select movies to place on my queue. For years I've occasionally popped in at www.imdb.com (Internet Movie Database) to identify characters in films I recognize but can't put a name to. That site contains movie...
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    Banned Books - Read any lately?

    Here is a link to the 100 most challenged books of the 1990s: http://www.ala.org/ala/oif/bannedbooksweek/bbwlinks/100mostfrequently.htm I'm just curious as to how many of these books everyone has read - and loved. Most of them are children's books, but you'll see that isn't always the case...
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    NOBODY will know about this book on Atlantis...

    Years ago I picked up a strange book in the library. It was published around 1900, and was written by a 12-year old girl who claimed to have vivid recollections of a past lifetime in Atlantis, just before it submerged. React to that as you will, but she wrote about it and they published it. As I...
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    Book concepts that follow you forever?

    I was just thinking about Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle. In the book, Vonnegut invents a religion and defines it. Part of the religion involves the "karass," which is a group of two or more people who are assigned to one another for the purpose of performing some sort of life task. Oftentimes...
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    English grammar versus American

    I've posed this question a number of times in various forums, and no one has ever given me a satisfactory reply. I can always tell when a news article (or anything, for that matter) is written by a British writer because I see "have got." As an American, I learned that the following is...
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