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Weekend Edition: 6-8

Last weekend, the BEA led to only one Bookish link. It ended and there are plenty today but only one Nonbookish link because otherwise all would deal with the NSA spying program. Take note, though, of a bitter irony — today marks the 64th anniversary of the publication of George Orwell’s 1984.

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Weekend Edition: 6-1

That’s right. Only one book-related links this week. Why? I attribute it to many of my usual sources being infatuated with Book Expo America this week, right after a three-day weekend. Or maybe I’m just more obtuse than normal this week.

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Denouncing the Classics (“…the current criteria for classics […]

Weekend Edition: 5-25

Bulletin Board

I just want to mention it was my 32nd wedding anniversary this past week — and, amazingly, she still loves me.

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Twenty-five Signs You’re Addicted To Books (“The first step is admitting it. The second step is to keep right on reading.”)

The Curse of Reading […]

Weekend Edition: 5-18

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Shooting Our Way to Safety (“Guns, as even half-wits ought to realize, are manufactured not by freedom-loving patriots, but by people for whom private profit outweighs public good. … Preventing criminals and mentally ill people from buying guns would cut into their earnings.”)

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Sci-Fi […]

Weekend Edition: 5-4

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Personal Remembrances of the Kent State Shootings, 43 Years Later (“Students today … don’t see protesting as part of the First Amendment. I think maybe they are desensitized; I don’t know. What have they experienced in their young lives that would cause you to stand up and be willing […]