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Weekend Edition: 6-12

Blog Headline of the Week

Science Shows That Martha Stewart’s Laundry Is Probably Stained

Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes

Are the 10 Commandments really the basis for U.S. laws?

Is God Irrelevant? (Utne Reader)

Bookish Linkage

Ten books to consider for National Bathroom Reading Month. (Personally, I prefer magazines.) (MobyLives)

A globally […]

Weekend Edition: 6-5

Bulletin Board

Siouxland Libraries will hold a book discussion at noon Thursday of this year’s One Book South Dakota selection, What Is the What by Dave Eggers. It will be held in a conference room at the main branch.

Blog Headlines of the Week

My God, it’s Full of Books (Familiarity with Arthur C. Clarke’s […]

Weekend Edition: 5-29

Bulletin Board

This week I used two new resources for disposing of barely used books. Through Operation Paperback, I shipped 29 books off to a USO library in Kuwait. And thanks to Books for Soldiers, four history books are on their way to a member of the Air Force in Iraq and six relatively recent […]

Weekend Edition: 5-22

Self Promotion

I’m quoted in the National Book Critics Circle’s roundup of members’ thoughts on the smartest works on conjugal love. I picked Joan Didion’s The Year of Magical Thinking, her memoir of the year following the death of her husband.

Blog Headline of the Week

TSA: Thousands Standing Around

Best Blog Line(s) of the […]

Sunday brunch

As I indicated, travel has keep internet access occasional at best. As a result, the weekly installments of Friday Follies and Weekend Edition didn’t make it on their normal days. So, with a bit of down time this morning, I’m offering Sunday Brunch, a combo of the two in one post that hopefully isn’t stale.

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