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No, the title doesn’t have anything to do with South Dakota and horse thieves. Rather, it’s about the interest Per Petterson’s book Out Stealing Horses is generating.
Still ranking as one of the best books I’ve read this year, my review of it has prompted an increasing amount of traffic. Here’s just a few statistics […]
I knew going to St. Petersburg and reading War and Peace would probably resurrect a long interest in Russian and Soviet history. I didn’t realize until last night or so that the mania may have set in.
I didn’t find it odd that I read a quite good biography of Catherine the Great a week […]
You can find plenty of opinions, both good and bad, on book reviewers. Likewise, there’s lots of ideas out there about what a review should or shouldn’t do. This past week SF author David Louis Edelman gave his thoughts on what authors want from reviewers. Here’s the list with some of his comments:
Opinion. “Have […]
I don’t know if it’s because of the current main library renovations, the fact the city is planning a new branch library on the west side of town or the glut of recent news stories nationally about how library usage picks up during s economic downturns. In any event, I participated in a telephone survey […]
There’s been a slight modification to the blog. For a couple years I’ve had a page of my “to be read” stacks. I decided to remove it because I’m very bad at keeping it up to date and also somewhat embarrassed to see how long some books have been on it. It’s replaced with a […]
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