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Library board is opportunity to give back

Most of the public attention surrounding last night’s City Council meeting was on the ongoing and longstanding debate over an events center. Yet item 29 of 31 on the agenda, a relatively innocuous item, was of more personal interest.

Just more than two hours into the meeting, the Council unanimously approved a resolution “advising and […]

Tim May 3rd, 2011 | Tags: , | Category: A Reading Life, Personal/Family | 3 comments - (Comments are closed) | |

May Bibliolust

But for book awards this month, I would actually have no books on hold at the local library. At the end of April, though, I added one so my streak continues. None of the other books making this month’s list are currently available so it means actually shelling out cash for a book or two […]

Tim May 2nd, 2011 | Tags: , | Category: A Reading Life | Comments are closed | |

Weekend Edition: 4-30

Bulletin Board

The South Dakota Humanities Council has announced the lineup for the 2011 South Dakota Festival of Books. The Festival is October 7-9 in Deadwood.

Bookish Linkage

The South Humanities Council is working with Penguin Books to produce a special edition of this year’s One Book South Dakota, The Journey of Crazy Horse: A […]

Tim April 30th, 2011 | Tags: , | Category: Weekend Edition | Comments are closed | |

Friday Follies 3.10

Shortest (and best????) deposition ever?

A homeless woman has been charged with a felony theft for allegedly lying about her address to get her son into a better school. (via)

People who sued themselves.

A Mississippi county judge has been suspended for 90 days after telling a woman he would “fix” the fine he gave […]

Tim April 29th, 2011 | Tags: , , | Category: Law, Miscellany/Linkage | Comments are closed | |

Book Review: The Secret of Wilhelm Storitz by Jules Verne

You’re likely to get an odd look when someone asks what you’re reading and you tell them it’s the “new” Jules Verne novel. After all, Verne died 106 years ago and all of his work has been published. Yet therein is a tale itself.

The Secret of Wilhelm Storitz is a novel Verne hoped would […]

Tim April 27th, 2011 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: Book Reviews | Comments are closed | |
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