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Midweek Music Moment: Frank Zappa and “Smoke on the Water”

Despite his extraordinary talent and lengthy career, Frank Zappa doesn’t have a song on Rolling Stone‘s list of the 500 greatest songs of all time. He does, however, deserve some credit, so to speak, for the song that came in at No. 426, “Smoke on the Water” by Deep Purple.

Propelled by a rudimentary guitar […]

Tuesday Thingers: Most popular book

What’s the most popular book in your [Library Thing] library? Have you read it? What did you think? How many users have it?

Mine is George Orwell’s 1984, which another 23,068 Library Thing members have as of the writing of this post. It ranks 11th overall on Library Thing. (Seven of the top eight […]

Musing Mondays: Christmas reading

With the holiday season now upon us, how does it affect your reading? Do you have more, or less, time to read at Christmas? Do you read Christmas themed/related books?

The only change I see comes from any related days off work. Of course, some of that time is spent with family activities and […]

December Bibliolust

Even with Christmas gifts on the horizon, the lust list is short this month. I think that’s because I’m somewhat overwhelmed by the growth in my “to be read” stacks. That said, there are a couple items that caught my eye:

The Archivist’s Story, Travis Holland — Although it came out last year, I’ve seen […]

Weekend Edition: 11-29

Random Observations

Far more accurate than Black Friday: National Day of Greed.

I know this may be getting repetitious but The Big Picture is undoubtedly and consistently one of the best sites on the internet. This week: Mumbai, the Space Station and the Congo. Go. Appreciate. Be awed.

Bookish Linkage

The NYT 100 notable books […]