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Have you noticed there are bookclubs everywhere? And bookclub websites everywhere. I may have mentioned that my library offers a “book club in a bag” that includes ten copies of a book and a lending period of six weeks. It is rather popular. My… Continue Reading “Book Club Bandwagon”
I’ve had a crappy sort of a day and have nothing positive to contribute to the conversation. I’ve decided that when I have nothing positive to add to the conversation that I shall go to the backlog of Weekend Assignment topics – from before… Continue Reading “Weekend Assignment: Rewind to #313”
Yesterday morning, I kinda wanted to go back to the Little City Book Sale. There were so many tables that I missed and a bunch of inventory that they hadn’t even brought out yet. I figured if I got there right when it opened,… Continue Reading “Return Trip”
As I was saying, the Little City Book Sale has confirmed in my mind the need for some ground rules at these events. Because I am old and cranky. Book Sales are very crowded, so the Spirit of the Law is to do your… Continue Reading “Anne’s Law – Book Sales”
This morning, I headed over to Old Orchard Shopping Mall in Skokie to hit the Little City Book Sale. This was the second full day of the sale, which was a change in strategy for me. The past couple of years, I have attended… Continue Reading “The Book Sale Formerly Known as Brandeis – 2010”
http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=leartojugg-20&o=1&p=8&l=bpl&asins=0312384548&fc1=000000&IS2=1<1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifrThis afternoon, I stole my brother’s library card, put Ainslie in the stroller and walked over to her library. While she was playing with the other kids, I picked up a couple of board books for her and grabbed a couple of books for… Continue Reading “The Library, by Sarah Stewart”
Publisher’s Weekly had an article about the bestseller list for Amazon.com: “For some in publishing it may be a curiosity, for others a point of contention—Amazon’s practice of including free downloads in its list of most popular Kindle titles. It will soon no longer… Continue Reading “Kindle Downloads”
Weekend Assignment #318: Library Books Recently, it was discovered that George Washington had forgotten to return some books he had checked out of his local library. They were only 221 years late, mind you, but late all the same. How about you? Have you… Continue Reading “How Big is Your Late Fee?”
Weekend Assignment #315: It seems that we’re all too busy these days to get around to everything we’d like to do, even if we had the money and means to do them. Is there a particular activity that takes up far too much of… Continue Reading “Time Suckage”
John Scalzi at Whatever pointed us to Weekend Assignment, a website that sets up blog topics once a week for when we feel like we have nothing to say. Would you believe the first topic was on books? I am not committing to doing this… Continue Reading “Blogger’s Blog”
The Next Dark Age 