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November Bibliolust

A (relatively) reasonable list of books for which I’ve developed a lust since last month’s installment. Methinks it has something to do with all the books I really want to get to that are already at home.

The Best Game Ever: Giants vs. Colts, 1958, and the Birth of the Modern NFL, Mark Bowden — […]

Goodnight Opus

It isn’t what I guessed, but Opus has found his paradise, a place where many of us would be content.

[Read me] my favorite [book], the same one you’ve read me two hundred nine times.

Opus, Goodnight Opus

A longlasting love affair

A couple of my recent posts reminded me of another relationship deeply associated with my love of books — one with public libraries.

I was lucky in that I grew up with plenty of books around. Yet even though there were books at home, my parents always enrolled me in the local library’s summer reading […]

First love

We’re not talking about puppy love, crushes or the like. This is important stuff as Book Club Classics asks, “What is the first book you simply remember loving?”

You never forget your first love. It undoubtedly was How the Grinch Stole Christmas!. My first memories of books involves a favorite aunt who lived in Minneapolis […]

Paper takes a couple hits from digital

First, Oprah raves about the Kindle, which will undoubtedly send sales through the roof. (Never mind the fact a new version is supposed to come out in the first quarter of 2009.)

Now, the Christian Science Monitor announces that by April 2009 it will replace its daily print edition with “an online publication that is […]