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Blogcritics: Books (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
Ms. Gilbert begins her journey as a whining white woman whose privileged life is falling apart. That's a problem. elizabethgilbert - Eat Pray Love - India - Indonesia - Julia Roberts
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EvolutionBlog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Seriously! Go have a look. It seems my book The Monty Hall Problem: The Remarkable Story of Math's Most Contentious Brainteaser made the list! And to think I wasn't planning to do a blog post today. Browsing through the other entries, it looks like my reading list just got a bit longer. (Of course, they will have to get in line behind Stephen King's forthcoming magnum opus , coming out on Tuesday....
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The Agonist (Free subscription) | yesterday
If you knew you were going to stranded on a deserted island for a full year with no cable, iPod, DVD/Blue Ray or any other assorted form of entertainment and only had room for five books, which five books would it be? Me? The Histories of Herodotus, The Divine Comedy by Dante, the complete Essays of Montaigne, The Complete Poems of Yeats and East of Eden by John Steinbeck. You?
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Miami Herald (Free subscription) | yesterday
''God gave unto the Animals / A wisdom past our power to see,'' goes a hymn sung by God's Gardeners, the ecologically minded, deeply spiritual but eminently practical religious cult in Margaret Atwood's fire-breathing new novel, The Year of the Flood.
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Miami Herald (Free subscription) | yesterday
You read the diary, you've seen the play and the movie. You toured the exhibit at the Holocaust Museum. You're pretty well Anne Frankified. Surely you don't need to read a new book about her or reread the diary.
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LisNews (Free subscription) | yesterday
Read Me: A Century of Classic American Book Advertisements This witty and heavily illustrated volume features more than 300 vintage book advertisements—startling and strange, beautiful and funny—that together reveal a kind of secret history of American literature over the last century. New York Times book critic Dwight Garner brings together original ads for some of the most acclaimed...
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New York Times (Free subscription) | yesterday
A duck discovers a huge speckled egg in “The Odd Egg”; readers free a frog by opening the pop-up book “Big Frog Can’t Fit In.”
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New York Times (Free subscription) | yesterday
A journey in pictures and verse from an unexplored beach to a busy music-filled family room and into a tranquil, moonlit night.
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New York Times (Free subscription) | yesterday
A pop-up romp through cubism and futurism, and a lesson in early-20th-century modernist formalism.
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New York Times (Free subscription) | yesterday
This beautifully illustrated retelling of the classic fable has only seven words, all sound effects.
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New York Times (Free subscription) | yesterday
An illustrated poem about the seasons; a story about a penguin searching for new colors; and a collection of classic fairy tales with vivid pictures.
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New York Times (Free subscription) | yesterday
A book imagining trucks as dinosaurs, and other explorations of the primal place of machines in the lives of small children.
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New York Times (Free subscription) | yesterday
Books about a squirrel waiting for winter; a bunny having a snow day; and Santa getting ready for Christmas.
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New York Times (Free subscription) | yesterday
This illustrated collection of surreal tales features water buffalo, stick figures and rivers of unread poetry.
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aloysiaow0ks | 10 hours ago
LOS ANGELES (Billboard) –Just in case you've been in a sight-, sound- and Twitter-deprivation tank for the past two years, here's the lowdown on the "Twilight" franchise: It's a series of four books written by Stephenie Meyer about Bella, a human girl who hearts Edward, a vampire boy. This is awkward, due to Edward's predilection for snacking on platelets, but also because high school relationships...
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kalyanim | yesterday
A-listers from high and low will pay tribute to one of comedy's greatest entertainers, Bill Cosby , when he receives the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor at the Kennedy Center