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Blog Headlines of the Week

God Doesn’t Like Crap in Art

Great Moments In Journalism: CNN.com Explores “Boozy Grandmas”

When The MSM Obsesses Over Crotches, Have The Terrorists Won?

Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes

Famous San Francisco Sea Lions Abandon Their Pier 39 Post

Obama and the Extraterrestrial Lobby

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The year in books — by the numbers

The numbers will finish off the end of the year book-related posts. I’ve been keeping a book diary since the beginning of 1976. This year I reached a record number of books read, 111. That figure is tempered by the reverse of what affected last year’s numbers. Just as my 2008 reading included a few […]

January Bibliolust

It just seems appropriate that the first post of the new year should be about my bibliolust. I should note, though, that while I don’t make New Year’s resolutions (other than to resolve not to make them), my goal this year is to read 50 percent more than the number of books I buy. I […]