I’ll be checking the back episodes and then watching for these every week! I love this idea. Tantalizing tidbits to get you interested in hearing or reading more. [...]
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Yep, that’s right. Firstly, it’s my birthday and I am now *mumblemumble* years old. Secondly, I am celebrating by going to see the Dead Sea Scrolls at the Royal Ontario Museum. Woo! I will undoubtedly not be allowed to take photos — these things need preservation from light, and camera flashes will not be good [...]
Happy Canada Day! And for those who’d like to be Canadian (c’mon, you know you wanna), here’s how: (And if the video chugs for you like it’s doing for me in the preview, please go see it on YouTube, because it’s very worth seeing)
[...] Did you know that it’s Buy Indie Day today? That is, it’s a day to support our independent bookstores. The idea is to go out to one of your local independent bookstores and buy something from them — paperback, hardcover, CD, audio book, whatever you like. Just something to show you’re glad they’re there, and [...] Don’t worry — I’m not uneasy about Earth Day itself; I’m fully on board with that. (I don’t own a car, try to keep my lights turned off, am looking into solar power, blah blah blah. And do I have recycling credentials? Do you rewash the plastic bags from grocery store produce departments [...] I’m so excited! I’ve been given the Premio Dardos Award by Lisa at Minds Alive on the Shelves! My first award. *wiping eyes* I’d like to thank the Academy… But seriously, Lisa’s is one of the finest book blogs I know, and Lisa herself has one of the keenest and most well-educated minds, so this [...] [Note: Now see the Today.com Exiles page (click on the tab at top of main page) for as complete a list as we can make of those who were booted from or left Today.com in disgust.] Well, it seems like there’s a definite pogrom going on at Today.com, of bloggers who: weren’t serving as unpaid [...] The American Booksellers Association (ABA) has named the winners of the first Indies Choice Book Awards for 2009. This is an honour given to reflect the spirit of independent bookstores — a group that’s been diminishing in recent years because of internet book-buying, ebooks, and other changes in the industry. Although this is the “first” [...] |
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