Tag: reading
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May 28, 2007 09:29 AM EDT --
The summer begins, and with it, the dread "summer reading." I say "dread" because for those of us in and around the book business, the choices we make of what to read for pleasure are . . .
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June 24, 2009 05:15 PM EDT --
I feel like I have been reading slower than usual because I have been doing a lot of other projects and sometimes I get bogged down in nonfiction, but I guess that I am doing alright.
(little . . .
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December 29, 2007 10:44 AM EST --
I have set a personal goal of attempting to read 50 books in the next year. Given the nature of my life it's more than an ambitious goal. The first way to accomplish a goal is to break . . .
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February 22, 2007 11:58 PM EST --
One of the most common things a new novelist is likely to hear from well- meaning friends and relatives is, “Hey, why don’t you call Oprah
and see if she’ll put you on the show?” . . .
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May 18, 2007 05:21 PM EDT --
I just finished Mameve Medwed's "How Elizabeth Barrett Browning Saved My Life" and I am feeling strangely melancholy.
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July 22, 2007 10:38 AM EDT --
I've learned my lesson a while ago. When it comes to Harry Potter, constant vigilance is essential.
So - from Thursday on, I have not left the house. No television, no newspapapers. Internet . . .
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September 05, 2007 11:35 AM EDT --
Please join us today, September 6th, 3-4pm ET for a live chat with M.J. Rose, author of The Reincarnationist and an international bestselling author of nine novels. To attend the live chat, just visit . . .
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July 30, 2007 11:52 AM EDT --
It couldn't have come at a more opportune time. Here it is, mid-summer, and many of us are gearing down for a slow August, business-wise, which also translates as an opportunity to read all the books . . .
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October 12, 2008 05:50 PM EDT --
I am a chain reader. As soon as I finish one book, I start on another. Half my bookshelf is filled with books that I haven't read...yet.
As much as I like to read, I just don't have time enough . . .
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October 03, 2007 10:15 AM EDT --
Welcome Lists, Lists, and More Lists members and anyone who should happen across this list.
One of my goals (as stated in my 30 Things in 30 Years article) is to read all 100 of the books . . .
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October 03, 2007 10:23 AM EDT --
Welcome Lists, Lists, and More Lists members and anyone who should happen across this list.
One of my goals (as stated in my 30 Things in 30 Years article) is to read all 100 of the books on . . .
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November 28, 2007 09:21 PM EST --
This morning I sat on the edge of my 7 year old daughters bed to get her up for the day.
I enjoy the mornings when I can walk in and sit down brush her red hair out of her face and say, “Princess . . .
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March 23, 2008 08:05 PM EDT --
What I mean is, I read broadly - many books circling a similar topic - some fiction, some non-fiction. Some books are written about the past, the distant past, the present.
Case in point - I . . .
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April 02, 2008 11:07 AM EDT --
Last year I began reading Hush Money by Robert Parker. I read about half the book and felt I was wasting time. I liked half of his subject matter, but the other half (about a goofy sex pot client), . . .
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January 23, 2008 10:01 PM EST --
I was tagged to write for this Meme on my blog and supposedly it'sbecause I'm so well read but one thing I've learned from blogging isthat I'm not so well read. I'm just well read in . . .
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December 21, 2007 11:39 AM EST --
Winter is a great time to enjoy that special book while sipping your favorite beverage. Whether it's rainy, snowy or sunny, you can't wait to get on the sofa with the book you've been dying . . .
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August 27, 2009 02:20 PM EDT --
I am debating whether or not to join a book club. I've never been in a book club and have always wondered if it was for me. I enjoy reading and love expanding my library. I would love . . .
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September 24, 2007 12:01 PM EDT --
CHIFENG, CHINA
August 17
Do this in remembrance of me.
Yin Daoming tilted his head back slightly as he raised the sacramental cup toward heaven. It was only a drinking glass, but he . . .
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September 24, 2007 12:05 PM EDT --
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The Chinese court had sentenced Yin to death for his many crimes against the state-an order not yet carried out for political reasons. The authorities recognized Yin as a man . . .
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September 24, 2007 12:08 PM EDT --
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The long journey from Chifeng ended a few blocks farther in an alley behind a modest theater. The brick building dated to the waning days of the imperial era, and the intervening . . .
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