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Magazines

February 14, 2009 Reading

When you consider that a fairly hefty slice of the success of my company still depends on the health of print media, it’s a little alarming to note that I’m actually surprised by just how many print magazines we still receive here in the Morrow household.
Magazines have been an easy place to cut spending iver [...]

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There’s a Kindle a-coming

February 11, 2009 Reading
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I ordered one of them fancypants ee-lectronic book readers from The Amazon, and if their delivery status is correct it will arrive two short weeks.
Last May, I wrote the following about my desire (and hesitations) about the Kindle:

As someone who always has at least two books on his person at almost all times and [...]

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Fine and Spooky Things

February 10, 2009 Reading

Sometimes it’s the simple things.
Today it’s listening to Neil Gaiman reading The Graveyard Book on a lovely pre-Spring lunch hour.

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Gene Wolfe book club

January 12, 2009 It's a SciFi World

Because I’m a glutton for punishment, and for grandiose resolutions, and for Gene Wolfe’s fiction…
I’m going to try to read all 12 books in Wolfe’s Sun series this year. I already had written “read a bunch of Gene Wolfe” on my list for 2009, then ran across John Klima’s introductory post of The Gene Wolfe [...]

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Silly old bear

January 10, 2009 Reading

“Return to the Hundred Acre Wood” (to be published 10/5/09) will be the first authorized sequel to A.A. Milne’s stories.
And Now, the Return of Winnie-the-Pooh – NYTimes.com.

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Big Fat Books

January 10, 2009 Reading

I, too, am in a phase where I relish the pleasures of sinking into a giant book.
Ann Vileisis: The Pleasures of a Big Fat Book.
(via @RonHogan)

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“Food Matters,” Mark Bittman | Salon Books

January 5, 2009 Food

Must. Buy. Bought.
Mark Bittman’s revolutionary “Food Matters” is both a cookbook and a manifesto that shows us how to eat better — and save the planet.

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