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Amazon picks its 10 best books of 2012 | Shelf Life | EW.com Number 1 was The Roundhouse by Louise Erdrich. I didn't read it, but the synopsis in the article tells me why it was number one - a coming of age story. Can't wait to see it get the Pulitzer. I didn't read any of the books in...

Reading 125 Titles A Year? That's 'One For The Books' : NPR Joe Queenan is a humorist and some of his comments are tongue in cheek. However, he makes it clear which side of the fence he is on when it comes to "high brow vs. low brow" literature. He discounts genre fiction and he absolutely...

Writing your own version of Fifty Shades?

Self-Publishing Sees Triple-Digit Growth Since 2007 Self pubbing is growing in leaps and bounds. Nearly a quarter of a million titles were released last year, that's a crowded field to stand out in.

OK, a live person in the form of a telemarker called me today and renewed my subscription at the disounted rate. So I wonder if I will get a confirmation email or a notice that I am not eligible.....

When the archaelogists are digging us up 2000 years from now there will be this news release on the Fox-Huffington News site: "According to the marker on the tomb of this individual apparently named "Hugh", he died in the year 2075. In his tomb were several "books", that is, sheets of paper...

You probably saw in the article that Tina Brown choked up in the meeting when it was announced the print edition would cease. What we are all seeing here is not something as simple or progressive as moving from a print format to a digital format. We are seeing something we once loved ceasing...

There's a fine line between admiring someone and worshipping them. If Ayn Rand were here today she would tell these movie makers to cease and desist immediately. And I know that you guys have read Atlas and you know that these low budgent movies bear no resemblance to her book. The movies...

Votes tallied up, 2 votes for, zero against. Thank you for casting your votes. I went straight to the website to place my order and was given a red error page after submission. It claimed that my email was already taken and to use a different one. I most certainly will not use a different email...

OK BARFers, question time. The WSJ sends me an invitation to subscribe for $9.99 per month. Each Saturday when I go to purchase the WSJ I pay between $2 and $3.23 for it. So, I could possibly save money and definitely save time by subscribing for delivery. However, delivery service here is...

I always thought of China and Russia as allies as well, although I remember a documentary that claimed Mao did not like the high-handedness of the Soviets. Did the book specify whether it thought Mao or Chiang Kai-Shek was a threat?

Was Barbara Weidman interviewed? Her book "The Passion of Ayn Rand" seemed mostly negative about Ayn. As it should be. What a weird affair.

Anybody stupid enough to get married should be allowed to join in the misery.

while you pretenders post your "arrrs" and "argggs" I've found out I'm a descendant of Blackbeard. He was described as having black beard that went almost up to his eyes, tall and broad shouldered - the exact same description given by various crime victims to the police about me. Here's a pic...

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You're trying a little too hard and it's raising my suspicions. If you were to write this review for Yelp, no doubt it's sniffer bot would send it straight to filtered. My own internal bot set off alarms I had never even heard of before when it came across this:

I've been googling for images of the Soyuz space capsule and there doesn't seem to be very many. As far as I can tell from the images that I have been able to find, the thing simply drops out of orbit and deploys a parachute to return to earth. It just plops down on a spot of land in Kazakstan...