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Bulletin Board Siouxland Libraries will hold a book discussion at noon Thursday of this year’s One Book South Dakota selection, What Is the What by Dave Eggers. It will be held in a conference room at the main branch. Blog Headlines of the Week My God, it’s Full of Books (Familiarity with Arthur C. Clarke’s […] Again, no one should be surprised that “very intoxicated” appears in the next paragraph of this story: “A [Florida] man was arrested Friday after deputies said he called 911 multiple times to complain his mother took his beer away.” Also in Florida, the family of a 13-year-old home-schooled girl has filed an age discrimination complaint […] Bulletin Board This week I used two new resources for disposing of barely used books. Through Operation Paperback, I shipped 29 books off to a USO library in Kuwait. And thanks to Books for Soldiers, four history books are on their way to a member of the Air Force in Iraq and six relatively recent […] Breast enlargement is not a human right (at least in the UK). About 40 percent of the cases in the court system of the Central African Republic are witchcraft prosecutions. “A car insurer has asked a Canadian family to pay for repairing a broken bumper after their dog was struck by the vehicle and died.” […] Self Promotion I’m quoted in the National Book Critics Circle’s roundup of members’ thoughts on the smartest works on conjugal love. I picked Joan Didion’s The Year of Magical Thinking, her memoir of the year following the death of her husband. Blog Headline of the Week TSA: Thousands Standing Around Best Blog Line(s) of the […] |
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