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Another bumper crop of interesting books this week. I didn’t even have time to get them all listed here. One of the books is about the Beatlemania of 1963, and it makes me sorry that I am right ...
by DebtorsPrison
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on Tue May 07, 2024 at 06:00 PM PDT
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Good evening, everyone. After last week’s 28 book extravaganza, a shorter list this week. Next week, I truly hope to start getting some actual book reviews of my own back into the mix. I know you’
by DebtorsPrison
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on Tue Apr 30, 2024 at 06:00 PM PDT
with 24 Recommends
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Elle Griffin has a post based on the Penguin Random House Simon and Schuster monopoly trial. �In it, she basically claims that books don’t sell, that no one knows how to sell books, and implies ...
by angryea
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on Wed Apr 24, 2024 at 05:00 AM PDT
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Here’s the list for this week, a fairly short one. Two books of interest to Three Body Problem fans, coming from different angles: one one the possibility of life on other planets, the other a ...
by DebtorsPrison
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on Tue Apr 16, 2024 at 06:00 PM PDT
with 19 Recommends
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Here’s this week’s choices for featured nonfiction, culled from the hundreds of books published this week. Something for everyone!
THIS WEEK’S NOTABLE NEW NONFICTION
Minority Rule: The ...
by DebtorsPrison
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on Tue Apr 23, 2024 at 06:00 PM PDT
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BOOK NEWS Liberation Station, a Black-owned children’s bookstore in Raleigh, North Carolina, is closing less than a year after it opened to to continuing threats. It is hoping to relocate.
by DebtorsPrison
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on Tue Apr 02, 2024 at 06:00 PM PDT
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Good evening, everyone. We’re back in Daylight Savings Time, except for here in Arizona, land of eternal Standard Time. I know the preferred timing for Readers and Book Lovers diaries is to be separated by two hours minimum. I’ve always posted at 7pm...
by DebtorsPrison
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on Tue Mar 12, 2024 at 06:00 PM PDT
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Good evening, everyone. Welcome to Super Tuesday! My Senator here in Arizona Kyrsten Sinema finally made it official that she did not plan on running for six more years of sabotaging Democratic goals. In November, it most likely will be Ruben Gallego...
by DebtorsPrison
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on Tue Mar 05, 2024 at 06:00 PM PST
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I am a failed writer in the sense that I have never had my fiction professionally published. These posts, which will run on most Fridays, are an attempt to keep myself creatively motivated and just ...
by angryea
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on Fri Mar 01, 2024 at 05:00 AM PST
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Good evening, everyone. I have a house guest this week, so just posting the notable new nonfiction of the week, and I may not be around for comments until later.
THIS WEEK’S NOTABLE NEW ...
by DebtorsPrison
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on Tue Mar 26, 2024 at 06:00 PM PDT
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A bit of housekeeping first. This is a new section of the newsletter. If you don’t want to receive it, you can opt out of it via your subscription management ...
by angryea
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on Fri Feb 23, 2024 at 03:36 AM PST
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BOOK NEWS 1 million books and 4 months later, Toronto's library recovers from a cyberattack More than four months after a ransomware attack shut down the Toronto Public Library's computer ...
by DebtorsPrison
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on Tue Feb 27, 2024 at 06:00 PM PST
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by angryea
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on Fri Feb 16, 2024 at 05:00 AM PST
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Good evening, everyone. The Mountain and Plains Independent Booksellers Association announced the longlist for their annual Reading the West Awards today , and you can see all the books in eight ...
by DebtorsPrison
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on Tue Feb 13, 2024 at 06:00 PM PST
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Good evening, everyone. I do apologize for the lack of my own reviews of a single book in recent weeks. It’s tough to carve out the time to fully read, digest and write about something these days. ...
by DebtorsPrison
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on Tue Feb 20, 2024 at 06:00 PM PST
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Greetings, everyone. Another modest Nonfiction Views this week with just the list of the top new nonfiction. Next week I’ll have a full-fledged review...I promise! I’m once again one of the judges in the annual Reading the West awards sponsored by the...
by DebtorsPrison
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on Tue Jan 30, 2024 at 06:00 PM PST
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BOOK NEWS
Add this bit of evidence to the pile of proof that J6 was a premeditated insurrection: Why Jan. 6 insurrectionists sent a letter to the Folger Shakespeare Library , from The ...
by DebtorsPrison
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on Tue Jan 23, 2024 at 06:00 PM PST
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BOOK NEWS
Book banning continues to be a thing around the country, with school districts and libraries pulling books, and people pushing back with some success in the courts. One that caught my ...
by DebtorsPrison
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on Tue Jan 02, 2024 at 06:00 PM PST
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In Readers and Book Lovers world this evening, bookgirl takes a look back at “the ones that got away” in 2023 fiction, while I’m taking a look forward to nonfiction coming in 2024. Happy New Year to all, and thank you for joining us each week. in The...
by DebtorsPrison
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on Tue Dec 26, 2023 at 06:00 PM PST
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by BrianMcFadden
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