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Category: Books
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In Memoriam: Christopher Stasheff
We lost a legend of science fiction and fantasy just a few days ago. I’d had the honor of meeting him in person, and he was a sweet man who’d written many wonderful books that left their mark on the world. I thought the best thing I could do to honor him here was to…
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The Empty Bookshelf
I recently bought two large bookshelves. Since we moved, and the kids each asked to have a set of shelves in their rooms, and another set got repurposed from ‘book’ to ‘bathstuff’ due to limited space in the bathroom… I needed some shelves. I picked up a little set at the thrift shop, but it…
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Eat This While You Read That: G Scott Huggins
So the conversation went something like this… Scott: I don’t know. Something with sausage? Maybe wurst? Me: I’ll do my wurst for you. And on that note! You should really read Scott’s book Doctor to Dragons if you appreciate humor. Especially low humor, because the book is about a veterinarian, and if you thought James Herriot…
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The Glittery Unicorns Book List
This list was born out of a question: someone wanted to know what were books we’d recommend for the young lady in his life, to save her from sparkly vampires. I was tagged in the comments, and realized that although I have several lists for boys, I hadn’t done one specifically for girls. This still…
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Eat This While You Read That: Amie Gibbons
Welcome back, gentlereaders! Amie asked me nicely if I would be willing to revive the popular series pairing food and books, since she had a book, and a recipe…. and it’s been a long time. I have badly missed this series. It lasted over a year, and I loved doing it. Since her request came…
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Guest Post: The Heart of the Matter
Amie Gibbons has a new book out! She’s on a blog tour as a result of it, guesting at other’s blogs with some lovely writing that isn’t her fiction as a sample of what you can get between her covers. If you haven’t yet read one of her books, they are fun romps – sweet…
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New Book!
Not my new book, but it’s still one you should read. Written by my friend (and superior writer) Peter Grant, this is the first of a series, but you won’t have long to wait for the rest of the books. He’s written all three in the trilogy, and will be releasing one a month starting…
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Boys to Men: A Book List
This list was born out of the list I curated last week, it’s just taken me some time to get my act together and publish this one. This is, as all my lists are, a crowd-sourced list. I posted the question on social media, and took the recommended books to create the list. It’s far…
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Classic Books Every Man Should Read
A few days ago the First Reader found a list of ’18 Classic Books Every Man Should Read in 2018′ and being an avid reader for over fifty years now, he clicked on it and read through their list. A little bit later, he made a snort of derision. “Most of these are crap,” he…
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Autodidactism
I was listening to a podcast presenting a brief biography of Andrew Carnegie the other day, and although I’m somewhat familiar with the man, and very familiar with his legacy of libraries, I think the philosophy that led him to establish more than 2500 libraries bears repeating, and often. He believed that compiling knowledge in a…
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Something Nutty
The other day I was getting ready for work and hustling the kids out the door for school when I found a nut on my desk. Since it hadn’t been there only moments before, and my desk was actually clean (temporarily. That’s never a state that lasts long in my office) I knew that one…
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Read More, Live More
My mother used to scold me about reading too much. ‘Go outside!’ she’d say. ‘Enjoy the sunshine!’ when she’d find me curled up with my nose in a book. Later, she’d tell me I was reading too many books. She was worried I was neglecting my schoolwork, but I could point out that my grades…