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Classic Romances Part 2: I Wish You’d Come Back
I find this year my romance reading has been split firmly into three camps: Review books, Must Buy This New Release books, and Yes! They Came In The Mail! classics. In the latter case, Better World…
Owls
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2duPmdmg7acI’m seriously in love with this TV spot. I enjoy the upbeat music, I don’t mind the product (Lufthansa started off as a Germany company, after all), and I absolutely adore the owls. Here’s the translation:…
A Slow Books Addendum
I just read an article from The Atlantic online called A Slow-Books Manifesto and wanted to add my addendum to it. Writer Maura Kelly refers to The Slow-Book Movement whose “sole purpose is to reawaken modern…
Speaking of Audiobooks: April 2012 Releases
It’s time for Round Two of the Surprise by the Quarter track in our 2012 Listening Challenge! Continue with this round of your 2012 Challenge or, if you want, jump in for just this quarter. Round…
Easter Parade
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LFDWjzaQvU I’m a sucker for Irving Berlin Musicals. Easter Parade stars Judy Garland and Fred Astaire as they sing and dance to 17 terrific Irving Berlin tunes in a story that is as sugary sweet as…
Memories and Collections
Do you have any collections? Do you think about them very often? Do anything with them? Or are they just something that you periodically stumble across and then remember. Two of my collections — art and…
Appreciating Authors
You probably have already heard about the Wall Street Journal breaking the story of the Department of Justice plans to sue Apple and Simon & Schuster Inc., Hachette Book Group; Penguin Group (USA); Macmillan and HarperCollins…