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Library Diva added the blog post 'Dude Lit'

nablopomo.com
yesterday
        

You know I love chick lit, as sort of a "guilty pleasure." I wondered why it was specific to men, as there are some damn good books on here, but I guess that probably has to do with it being a men's magazine, like "The Ten...

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In Praise of Baadasssss Supermamas

alternet.org
15-Nov-2008
        

The women in Blaxploitation pics didn't accept victimization and often fought for causes larger than themselves. That was the season of the supermama: kickass black women such as Grier and Tamara Dobson, who starred in...

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Preliminary sketches of Tony Blair invariably had the PM knocking off the head of a robot.

metafilter.com
15-Nov-2008
        

When the House of Commons required a portrait of outgoing PM Tony Blair, to whom did they turn? Phil Hale. Philip Oliver Hale got his start very young indeed, co-founding with Rick Berry the Newbury Studio in 1980 at age 16. He...

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Lit picks: Recommended reading

sfgate.com
14-Nov-2008
        

The Chronicle's book editor recommends these recently reviewed titles: A Mercy (Knopf; 167 pages; $23.95) by Toni Morrison: Morrison has made a ferociously beautiful work, filled, in the words of French novelist-critic Julien...

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Invisible Obstacles: Getting Over Writer's Block

maroon-news.com
14-Nov-2008
        

It comes without a warning. You are sitting comfortably planning to work on a paper on a Saturday evening, and you want to get it right. You want to get a better grasp before the fun activities planned for the night. However,...

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Book review: 'Thames' and 'By Chance'

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13-Nov-2008 2 related
        

Thames The Biography By Peter Ackroyd 481 pages. From his first novel, "The Great Fire of London," to this new book's ambitious harbinger, "London: The Biography," the city as theater has fueled Peter Ackroyd's writing. His...

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Who said: Only two classes of books are of universal appeal: the very best and the very worst.

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13-Nov-2008
        

Ford, Ford Madox, 1873–1939, English author; grandson of Ford Madox Brown. He changed his name legally from Ford Madox Hueffer in 1919. The author of over 60 works including novels, poems, criticism, travel essays, and...

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Shipmates on a journey during the Opium Wars

miamiherald.com
11-Nov-2008 4 related
        

SEA OF POPPIES. Amitav Ghosh. Farrar Straus Giroux. 515 pages. $26. Over the last two decades, the Indian author Amitav Ghosh has established himself as a writer of uncommon talent who combines literary flair with a rare...

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Permanent Things

theamericanprowler.com
11-Nov-2008
        

Russell Kirk bequeathed us a succinct definition of a conservative: "In essence, the conservative person is simply one who finds the permanent things more pleasing than Chaos and Old Night. (Yet conservatives know, with Burke,...

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Friendship Quotes

wizdompath.wordpress.com
11-Nov-2008
        

Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God’s best gifts. It involves many things, but above all, the power of going out of one’s self and appreciating whatever is noble and loving in another....

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