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Time Travel in Books, welcome to “the wayback machine”
Who remembers the WABAC Machine? This was from Peabody’s Improbable History, a show-within-a show during the Rocky and Bullwinkle cartoons of the 1960s (disclaimer: I watched the re-runs!). Peabody...
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Friday Finds: August 22, 2008
It’s that time of the week again! MizB at Should Be Reading asks what new books have joined the groaning bookshelves in the past seven days … Well, memoir is one of my favorite genres to read, and it...
View ArticleWhich photo inspires you to read?
Head over to the Literate Housewife’s blog, check out the photo submissions for her Creative TBR Photo Contest, and vote for the one that most inspires you. Yes, I entered the contest. No, there are...
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Children’s Book Review: *Red Red Red* by Valeri Gorbachev
Red Red Red by Valeri Gorbachev Reading level: Ages 4-8 Publisher: Philomel (March 1, 2007 ) Hardcover: 40 pages ISBN-10: 0399246282 ISBN-13: 978-0399246289 Thursday’s visit to the library for...
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Bookish Ruth is giving away *The Wednesday Sisters*
Head on over to Bookish Ruth’s blog to enter her drawing for a brand-new hardcover copy of The Wednesday Sisters by Meg White Clayton. Giveaway date is August 20. Here’s the publisher’s synopsis:...
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We stayed up for *Breaking Dawn*!
Our twelve-year-old Little Woman (LW12) is a HUGE fan of Stephenie Meyer, she has read the previous three Twilight books numerous times. When we learned that Meyer’s new Young Adult novel, Breaking...
View ArticleA break for those of us in “Taxachusetts”!
Good news for folks shopping in Massachusetts the weekend of August 17 and 18th. Gov. Deval Patrick has signed a law lifting the 5% sales tax for that weekend, with some exceptions. More details in...
View ArticleInfo on updating Google Reader with my new site …
I’ve heard from a couple wonderful readers of my blog that they’re having trouble adding this new URL to their Google Readers. Apparently, the Reader is finding the old (wordpress) site and...
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Take a *First Look* at my relationship with *First Book*
If you’ve been reading She Is Too Fond Of Books for any length of time, and if you’ve read the BBAW interview over at My Friend Amy’s last week, you know a little bit about me… You know I’m a...
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*She is too fond of books* is moving …
… to a self-hosted domain. My blog will look essentially the same once the change is complete, but I may be “unavailable” for a few days. Think of it like I’m busy unpacking and hanging pictures in...
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Re-cap of Book Blogger Appreciation Week (from where I sit!)
Each day this week, Amy has asked us to write about a specific topic; I’ve been in bed since Tuesday afternoon (one of those crazy New England sinus infections stemming from weather in the 80s one day...
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Spotlight on Bookstores: Constellation Books; Reistertown, Maryland
This week’s Spotlight on Bookstores is written by Heather, a wife, mom, and avid reader. She reviews a wide variety of books at her blog Age 30 – A Year of Books and also posts with her kiddo about...
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BBAW contest for the folks who READ book blogs!
Next week is Book Blogger Appreciation Week … there are guests posts, giveaways, interviews, awards galore, etc.! What’s in it for the person who reads book blogs (doesn’t have one of his/her own) …...
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Tuesday Thingers: And the prize goes to …
Today’s question from the Boston Bibliophile: Awards. Do you follow any particular book awards? Do you ever choose books based on awards? What award-winning books do you have? (Off the top of your head...
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Dear Diary …
Each Monday the New York Times runs a column called “Metropolitan Diary”, comprised of reader-submitted vignettes about life in New York. These short pieces are usually humorous, and often include...
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Join the chat with Joyce Hinnefeld, author of *In Hovering Flight*
How did I miss this on my The Week Ahead post this week?! Joyce Hinnefeld will be featured in an Author Chat at LibraryThing from October 29 thru November 12. Just click here to get to the right page...
View Article“Best posts of the week” and “Saturday review of books”
In the past few weeks two weekly series have been brought to my attention: Shana at Literarily posted about Semicolon’s weekly review of books. Each Saturday bloggers who have reviewed books in the...
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When is a series not a series?
Yes, the World Series is being played as I write this (and I’m still not over the fact that my beloved Red Sox aren’t there …), but I’m talking about another kind of series altogether. Yesterday, Marie...
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Spotlight on Bookstores (or lack thereof) in the Bahamas … or “what I did on...
We were on vacation last week, taking the kids on a 4-night Disney Cruise from Pt. Canaveral to Nassau and Disney’s “private island”, plus a day at sea. The trip was fantastic, and I’ll dish a little...
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Friday Finds: October 17, 2008
This weekly meme is hosted by MizB at Should be Reading. We were away on vacation this week, and a neighbor was taking in our mail/newspapers/packages (and caring for my son’s “pet”, an anole from a...
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