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A red reading state

It should come as no surprise but, at least according to Amazon, South Dakota reads red. Not red as in my younger days (you know, them Commies). No, red as in the red state-blue state divide.

Amazon has an Election 2008 map tracking political book buying. According to it, during the last 60 days a […]

Tim September 10th, 2008 | Tags: , | Category: A Reading Life, Politics | Comments are closed | |

Idiot’s note to feed subscribers

Some recent monkeying around may have impacted those who subscribe to the blog via feed readers or RSS. You may need to resubscribe due to operator error on this end.

Of course, if the way you read the blog is via RSS and I screwed up your subscribed feed, then you’re probably not going to […]

Tim September 9th, 2008 | Tags: | Category: Blog/Internet | Comments are closed | |

Tuesday Thingers: Book awards

As inspiration/motivation to post a bit more in the book field, I’m going to try a series of regular memes that circulate in the bookblog community. They may not appear each and every week but simply as they strike my fancy.

The first is Tuesday Thingers, a kind of a round robin of Library Thing […]

Tim September 9th, 2008 | Tags: , , | Category: Book Memes | 6 comments - (Comments are closed) | |

One reading list shortened

The announcement of the finalists for this year’s Booker Prize shortens one of my reading lists. The 13 books on the longlist have been cut to six:

The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga The Secret Scripture, Sebastian Barry Sea of Poppies, Amitav Ghosh The Clothes on Their Backs, Linda Grant The Northern Clemency, Philip Hensher A […]

Tim September 9th, 2008 | Tags: | Category: A Reading Life | Comments are closed | |

Five years ago today

Yes, it was five years and more than 1,200 posts ago that the first post appeared on this blog. A lot has changed in that time, some for the good (from a blog perspective) and perhaps more from the bad (nationally).

When this blog started, it was pretty much all politics all the time. There’s […]

Tim September 9th, 2008 | Tags: | Category: Blog/Internet | Comments are closed | |
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