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I know. I’m to the point of addiction with these things. And you’d think I’d know better, particularly when the list comes from England, counts Twilight as the best book of 2005 and has already selected a best book of 2009.
That said, here’s the best 60 books of the past 60 years, at least […]
Bob Dylan took only six days to record Highway 61 Revisited, the last being August 4, 1965. What did he accomplish in those six days? Well, the album itself ranked fourth in Rolling Stone‘s list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. The opening track, “Like A Rolling Stone,” tops the magazine’s list of […]
Writing a book about a case that works its way to the U.S. Supreme Court poses inherent problems for an author. Perhaps the most difficult is putting the story in terms the average reader can understand while not bungling or giving too short shrift to legal complexities. This is especially so when the author is […]
Library Habits meme:
1. If you don’t frequent your local library, why not? 2. If you do visit the library, how often do you go? 3. Do you have a favorite section that you always head to first, or do you just randomly peruse the shelves? 4. How many books are you allowed to […]
At times, lust is a far stronger emotion than guilt. Thus, despite bemoaning the number of books in the “to be read” bookcase, I still lust after more. Foretunately, the local library and its reserve list can help satiate the lust, as it is doing with this month’s bibliolust list.
Armenian Golgotha, Grigoris Balakian — […]
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