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Welcome to Bookchat! Where you can talk about anything; books, plays, essays, and audio books. You don’t have to be reading a book to come in, sit down, and chat with us.
So it’s been a while ...
by anotherdemocrat
 86 comments
on Wed Aug 21, 2024 at 05:00 PM PDT
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Hi, it’s been a while since there was a BookChat, so I threw this together literally this afternoon. It’s barely better than a rough draft, but it’s a BookChat. Seeing lots of talk about Eurovision, and it made me think of books about that and other...
by anotherdemocrat
26 comments
on Wed May 15, 2024 at 05:00 PM PDT
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Welcome to bookchat! Where you can talk about anything; books, plays, essays, and audio books. You don’t have to be reading a book to come in, sit down, and chat with us.
Hi, there! It’s been a ...
by anotherdemocrat
40 comments
on Wed Feb 22, 2023 at 05:00 PM PST
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Welcome to bookchat where you can talk about anything...books, plays, essays, and audio books. �You don’t have to be reading a book to come in, sit down, and chat with us.
Sir Terry Pratchett ...
by Youffraita
72 comments
on Wed Sep 23, 2020 at 05:00 PM PDT
with 37 Recommends
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Welcome, New Users, ...
by smileycreek
400 comments
on Thu Jan 07, 2010 at 02:06 PM PST
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There is an old saying that goes, roughly, in German:
"Alles gutes Dinge sind drei." (All good things come in threes.)
Thus, the Bookflurries theme tonight is: ...
by chingchongchinaman
161 comments
on Wed Sep 02, 2009 at 05:05 PM PDT
with 16 Recommends
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Since cfk, the regular Bookflurries host extraordinaire, is unfortunately computerless for a time, several of us are going to try to fill the gap in this series for that duration, yours truly being ...
by chingchongchinaman
83 comments
on Wed Jul 22, 2009 at 06:26 PM PDT
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I'm just one of the many here who rarely writes a diary, comments only occasionally, but reads daily—and I'm checking in tonight because tomorrow I'm heading to San Francisco to attend the ...
by Circle
42 comments
on Sat Apr 18, 2009 at 09:50 PM PDT
with 47 Recommends
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Books I read this month. Includes a bio of Chesty Puller, His Dark Materials, The Mote in God's Eye, a Spenser book, and several classic novels from way back when...
Crossposted to plf515's ...
by AdmiralNaismith
3 comments
on Wed Jul 30, 2008 at 07:16 AM PDT
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Just stuff I've read lately, with quotes and commentary. Likely to be reposted on Bookflurries, plf515's diary, and other bookish koszy korners like that.
by AdmiralNaismith
7 comments
on Tue Jul 01, 2008 at 08:23 AM PDT
with 6 Recommends
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Welcome to bookchat where you can talk about anything...books, plays, essays, quotes, words, magazines, and books on tape. You don’t have to be reading a book to come in, sit down, and ...
by cfk
135 comments
on Wed Mar 19, 2008 at 05:00 PM PDT
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I will continue to write at Dailykos.
I will continue to read diaries at Dailykos.
I will avoid diaries that only want to damage a Democratic candidate for President.
I don't feel bad about not ...
by algebrateacher
40 comments
on Fri Mar 14, 2008 at 07:51 PM PDT
with 38 Recommends
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