Private Splendor: truly splendid!
http://robertarood.wordpress.com/2007/12/03/private-splendor-truly-splendid/
352 days ago
By Roberta Rood
Private Splendor: Great Families at Home, with text by Alexis Gregory [pictured above] and photography by Marc Walter.
This is quite possibly the most beautiful book I have ever seen. In it, eight European estates are profiled and photographed:
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Today Is Our Book Fair Penny Drive!
http://theunquietlibrary.wordpress.com/2007/12/03/today-is-our-book-fair-penny-d
352 days ago
By theunquietlibrary
Attention all students: today is our penny drive for our Book Fair and our efforts to help buy books for schools in New Orleans. Please donate any spare pennies you may have to your English teachers today! The class period that donates the most lo
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Parity parsed: Greenbacks & overpriced books
http://proseparsed.wordpress.com/2007/12/03/parity-parsed-greenbacks-overpriced-
352 days ago
By proseparsed
If you needed another reason to shop outside the (big) box, McNally Robinson Booksellers have reduced prices on 1,500 titles to par with the American Greenback.
That's a small but promising beginning, even if it's only relevant to a small market in Wester
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Mohammed is free!
http://kevmoore.wordpress.com/2007/12/03/mohammed-is-free/
352 days ago
By kevmoore
Well, at least Gillian Gibbons, whom the furry one got into trouble, is free. Thanks to Two British Muslim peers, Lord Nazir Ahmed and Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, The Sudanese government eventually saw reason, or more likely, saw an acceptable way to extri
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The fate of books... and libraries
http://havemercia.wordpress.com/2007/12/03/the-fate-of-books-and-libraries/
352 days ago
By Pete
A piece on the disappearance of 250k+ books from Walthamstow, and on the fate of books and libraries more generally.
Firstly, it is a scandal that so many books were disposed of, with no apparent thought for alternatives. That some books need to be weeded
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My Kingdom for a Kindle or Two or Six!
http://urbansemiotic.com/2007/12/03/my-kingdom-for-a-kindle-or-two-or-six/
352 days ago
By David W. Boles
The $400.00USD Amazon Kindle eReader sold out in less than five hours on its debut day November 20th. The next batch sold out even quicker -- I was lucky to get one delivered Friday -- and the third batch of Kindles will not be available for purchase unt
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Lightship by Brian Floca
http://wplkids.wordpress.com/2007/12/03/lightship-by-brian-floca/
352 days ago
By Adrienne
One of my favorite new nonfiction books of 2007 is Lightship by Brian Floca. Check out the book trailer and then check it out at the library.
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Howard Pyle
http://beyondbluestockings.wordpress.com/2007/12/03/howard-pyle/
352 days ago
By beyond bluestockings
Men of Iron
I loved this book. It has to be one of my all time favourites, the kind you can enjoy on the second and third reading!
Miles Falworth has a bit to learn about holding his temper. However, as a knight in training, he has ample opportunity for t
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Who’s Your City?
http://crazyrhythms.wordpress.com/2007/12/03/who%e2%80%99s-your-city/
352 days ago
By adam
I really look forward to Richard Florida's new book "Who's Your City?".
Florida is an Urban Studies theorist and American economist, currently working as a professor at the University of Toronto in Canada. When a lot of people say that it doesn't really
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Aesop: The Frog and The Ox
http://espliego.wordpress.com/2007/12/03/la-fontaine-the-frog-and-the-ox/
352 days ago
By cantueso
Two little frogs were playing on the edge of a pool when an ox came down to the water to drink, and by accident stepped on one of them and crushed him. When the frog mommy missed him, she asked his brother where he was. "He is dead, mom," said the little
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