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May 26th, 2011
Echo of the Bunnywomen (ExPlayboyBunnies.com)Sweded (IKEAHackers.net)Your Mother Should Know (TeachParentsTech.org) Read more »
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No Need for Garlic
This summer’s cohort of books is refreshingly vampire-free
May 19th, 2011
Other than a brief respite from vampires and zombies, and the absence of Stieg Larsson, this year’s crop of summer books is going to feel an awful lot like last summer’s. Oh sure, there will be an increasing number of savvy consumers hunched over an iPad 2, Nook Color or a Kindle 3G, but even as technology changes, authors stay the same. From now until August, readers can enjoy a steady stream of new books and paperback reprints from best-selling authors such as David Baldacci, Danielle Steel, and Nelson DeMille. James Patterson has a staggering three new hardcovers that bear his byline, in addition to several new books for young readers. Read more »
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May 12th, 2011
Las Vegas Is Framed (LVArtsAndCulture.blogspot.com)Right Between The Four-Eyes (NerdsRuinEverything.tumblr.com)Cheez Whiz (TheFacePalm.org) Read more »
Bookini
Evil is The Color of Night in Bell’s dark novel
April 28th, 2011
There’s no question in my mind that Madison Smartt Bell is a gifted writer. I’ve enjoyed much of the work he’s produced in his long and distinguished literary career, which makes it all the more confounding that I had such a miserable time reading his new book, The Color of Night (Vintage Books, $15). Read more »
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April 28th, 2011
I Can Has Bestseller? (WritersAndKitties.tumblr.com)&Scheherazade With Earbuds (1001Albums.com)It Is Written (Flickr.com/groups/personal_ad) Read more »
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Tina Explains It All
With her signature wry wit, Fey shows us who’s boss in her debut memoir
April 21st, 2011
Anything can happen in show business, a truism proven by the word “boss” applies to Tina Fey in at least three ways, making the title she has chosen for her first book, Bossypants (Reagan Arthur, $27), particularly apt. Read more »
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Queen Victoria: A Personal History
April 21st, 2011
I recently saw the movie The Young Victoria and wanted to know more about her early life. There are numerous biographies but I wanted something very readable, and I found it in Queen Victoria: A Personal History (Basic Books, 2000) by Christopher Hibbert. Read more »
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Fear Fighter
Poet C.D. Wright’s latest book honors a fierce struggle and a friend’s memory
April 14th, 2011
It was a four-day “March Against Fear” into Arkansas in August 1969. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. had been dead a year, the civil rights movement established. Across the South, conflicts erupted. A man known as Sweet Willie Wine led a contingent of black men from West Memphis to Little Rock, Ark. Whites in Big Tree, Ark., braced themselves. But one white person in Big Tree joined the march—Margaret Kaelin McHugh, a.k.a. V.—and she was banished by her town for crossing the color line. Read more »
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March 31st, 2011
ROCK CITY (IsaacGraceLily.blogspot.com/2011/03/rock-on.html) A TALE OF TWO BOXES (www.UnstBusShelter.shetland.co.uk) RIDE ’EM PAULA (PaulaDeenRidingThings.com) Read more »
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Selected by Jeanne Goodrich, executive director for the Las Vegas-Clark County Library District.
March 24th, 2011
Maisie Dobbs (Soho Press, 2003) is the first in Jacqueline Winspear’s charming series about a plucky female private investigator who operates in post-World War I England. From her humble beginnings as a housemaid, Maisie’s intelligence, personal drive and perception take her to Cambridge, to France as a war nurse, and ultimately to London, where she opens her own business. Read more »
