Thoughts on: Akhmed and the Atomic Matzo Balls by Gary Buslik

About: Akhmed and the Atomic Matzo Balls by Gary Bus­lik is a fic­tional comedic book. The story spans the globe and includes tyrants, pro­fes­sors and even… con­ser­v­a­tives. 370 pages Pub­lisher: Trav­el­ers' Tales/Solas House Lan­guage: Eng­lish ISBN-10: 1609520696 My rat­ing for Akhmed and the Atomic Matzo Balls — 3 Buy this book in paper or in elec­tronic for­mat More Books

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Giveaway of & Thoughts on: The Secrets of Mary Bowser by Lois Leveen

Arti­cle first pub­lished as Book Review: The Secrets of Mary Bowser by Lois Lev­een on Blog­crit­ics. About: The Secrets of Mary Bowser by Lois Lev­een is a his­tor­i­cal fic­tion novel tak­ing place before and dur­ing the Amer­i­can Civil War. Very lit­tle is known about Mary Bowser, a free slave who went back into Vir­ginia to spy for the Union. The

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Tightwad Tuesday — Free or Affordable eBooks — Non Fiction

Wel­come to another edi­tion of Tight­wad Tues­day. While look­ing around for non-fiction books, I saw some really cool free ones and thought that you might like them as well. Authors: If you'd like  your book to be fea­tured on Tight­wad Tues­days please email me. For the Kin­dle: Thompson's Lucky Star: The Story of a Sta­lag Survivor

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Love of Reading

I bought The Puppy Place #22: Bella by Ellen Miles (web­site) as part of the nook Daily Find, which I check out daily…being an owner of a nook. My daugh­ter, 7, loves dogs and have been beg­ging for one for years. One day we’ll get one. Buy this book in paper or in elec­tronic for­mat through the Man of la

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Twitter Roundup for Week Ending 12 May, 2012

Book Review: A Long, Long Time Ago and Essen­tially True by Brigid Pasulkatinyurl.com/2cydet2 #BookRe­view Guest Post: Ghost Writ­ing is an Hon­or­able Pro­fes­sion By Karen Cole @karencole37manoflabook.com/wp/?p=5766 # Who Copy­ed­its The Copy Edi­tors? | The Awl –goo.gl/ojU3k Harry Pot­ter e-books go into Kin­dle lend­ing library | The Book­seller shar.es/2EMei via @ShareThis Libraries set out to own their ebooks — Boing

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Guest Post: Ghost Writing is an Honorable Profession By Karen Cole

It’s hard some­times to talk about being a ghost writer, mainly because I’m not allowed to. In a lot of cases, I can’t dis­cuss the work I’ve done, even when it involves a book being on the New York Times best seller list for twenty weeks – because I’m not sup­posed to have writ­ten that

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Fun Facts Friday: J. M. Barrie

Yes­ter­day was the birth­day of Sir James Matthew Bar­rie, 1st Baronet, OM (9 May 1860 – 19 June 1937) bet­ter remem­bered as author J. M. Bar­rie who cre­ated the beloved Peter Pan. 1 ) Bar­rie always wanted to be an author but his fam­ily was against it. His con­ser­v­a­tive Calvin­ist fam­ily wanted him to enter the

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Thoughts on: The Man in the Rockefeller Suit by Mark Seal

Arti­cle first pub­lished as Book Review: The Man in the Rock­e­feller Suit: The Aston­ish­ing Rise and Spec­tac­u­lar Fall of a Ser­ial Imposter by Mark Seal on Blog­crit­ics. About: The Man in the Rock­e­feller Suit: The Aston­ish­ing Rise and Spec­tac­u­lar Fall of a Ser­ial Impos­tor by Mark Seal is a non-fiction book track­ing one of the

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Thoughts on: Akhmed and the Atomic Matzo Balls by Gary Buslik

Thoughts on: Akhmed and the Atomic Matzo Balls by Gary Buslik

About: Akhmed and the Atomic Matzo Balls by Gary Bus­lik is a fic­tional comedic book. The story spans the globe and includes tyrants, pro­fes­sors and even… con­ser­v­a­tives. 370 pages Pub­lisher: Trav­el­ers' Tales/Solas House Lan­guage: Eng­lish ISBN-10: 1609520696 My rat­ing for Akhmed and the Atomic Matzo Balls — 3 Buy this book in paper or in elec­tronic for­mat More Books

Giveaway of & Thoughts on: The Secrets of Mary Bowser by Lois Leveen

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Arti­cle first pub­lished as Book Review: The Secrets of Mary Bowser by Lois Lev­een on Blog­crit­ics. About: The Secrets of Mary Bowser by Lois Lev­een is a his­tor­i­cal fic­tion novel tak­ing place before and dur­ing the Amer­i­can Civil War. Very lit­tle is known about Mary Bowser, a free slave who went back into Vir­ginia to spy for the Union. The

Tightwad Tuesday — Free or Affordable eBooks — Non Fiction

Tightwad Tuesday — Free or Affordable eBooks — Non Fiction

Wel­come to another edi­tion of Tight­wad Tues­day. While look­ing around for non-fiction books, I saw some really cool free ones and thought that you might like them as well. Authors: If you'd like  your book to be fea­tured on Tight­wad Tues­days please email me. For the Kin­dle: Thompson's Lucky Star: The Story of a Sta­lag Survivor

Love of Reading

Love of Reading

I bought The Puppy Place #22: Bella by Ellen Miles (web­site) as part of the nook Daily Find, which I check out daily…being an owner of a nook. My daugh­ter, 7, loves dogs and have been beg­ging for one for years. One day we’ll get one. Buy this book in paper or in elec­tronic for­mat through the Man of la

Twitter Roundup for Week Ending 12 May, 2012

Twitter Roundup for Week Ending 12 May, 2012

Book Review: A Long, Long Time Ago and Essen­tially True by Brigid Pasulkatinyurl.com/2cydet2 #BookRe­view Guest Post: Ghost Writ­ing is an Hon­or­able Pro­fes­sion By Karen Cole @karencole37manoflabook.com/wp/?p=5766 # Who Copy­ed­its The Copy Edi­tors? | The Awl –goo.gl/ojU3k Harry Pot­ter e-books go into Kin­dle lend­ing library | The Book­seller shar.es/2EMei via @ShareThis Libraries set out to own their ebooks — Boing

Guest Post: Ghost Writing is an Honorable Profession By Karen Cole

Guest Post: Ghost Writing is an Honorable Profession By Karen Cole

It’s hard some­times to talk about being a ghost writer, mainly because I’m not allowed to. In a lot of cases, I can’t dis­cuss the work I’ve done, even when it involves a book being on the New York Times best seller list for twenty weeks – because I’m not sup­posed to have writ­ten that

Fun Facts Friday: J. M. Barrie

Fun Facts Friday: J. M. Barrie

Yes­ter­day was the birth­day of Sir James Matthew Bar­rie, 1st Baronet, OM (9 May 1860 – 19 June 1937) bet­ter remem­bered as author J. M. Bar­rie who cre­ated the beloved Peter Pan. 1 ) Bar­rie always wanted to be an author but his fam­ily was against it. His con­ser­v­a­tive Calvin­ist fam­ily wanted him to enter the

Thoughts on: The Man in the Rockefeller Suit by Mark Seal

Thoughts on: The Man in the Rockefeller Suit by Mark Seal

Arti­cle first pub­lished as Book Review: The Man in the Rock­e­feller Suit: The Aston­ish­ing Rise and Spec­tac­u­lar Fall of a Ser­ial Imposter by Mark Seal on Blog­crit­ics. About: The Man in the Rock­e­feller Suit: The Aston­ish­ing Rise and Spec­tac­u­lar Fall of a Ser­ial Impos­tor by Mark Seal is a non-fiction book track­ing one of the

Giveaway of & Thoughts on: Private Empire by Steve Coll

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Arti­cle first pub­lished as Book Review: Pri­vate Empire by Steve Coll on Blog­crit­ics. About: Pri­vate Empire: Exxon­Mo­bil and Amer­i­can Power by Steve Coll is a non-fiction book about the influ­ence Exxon­Mo­bil yields over world econ­omy and pol­i­tics. While the book has many aspects of the company’s agenda, whether it be sci­ence or pol­i­tics, with clar­ity and zest. The pub­lisher is

Thoughts on: Ozma of Oz by L. Frank Baum

Thoughts on: Ozma of Oz by L. Frank Baum

About: Ozma of Oz by L. Frank Baum is the third story in the fic­tional series tak­ing place in the land of Oz. While cer­tainly not as pop­u­lar the first story in the series (my thoughts) the rest are very imag­i­na­tiveas well. 272 pages Pub­lisher: Harper­Collins; 1st ptg. edi­tion (May 24, 1989) Lan­guage: English ISBN-10: 0688066321 My rat­ing for

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