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Re: What the President is Reading

Posted in Barack Obama, tagged , , on August 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

President Obama is a noted reader. The press recently reported on his heavy duty August vacation reading list which included such hefty tomes as David McCullough’s new biography of John Adams and Thomas Friedman’s Hot, Flat, and Crowded.  The New York Times ran an article in Jan. 2009 on the books that shaped his life.
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Re: Fall Books

Posted in Book recommendations, Politics (National), tagged , , , , , , , , , , on August 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

I always know when fall time is rolling round as I become more enamored of reading in the evenings. In much the same way that squirrels collect pine cones for the winter, I begin hauling in books that peak my interest.
Here are a few of my recent reads and reviews thereof:

This literary classic is much [...]

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Re: Intellectual Conversation @ Your Library

Posted in Library Life, tagged on August 19, 2009 | 2 Comments »

“Snot doctors”. –Bob, my co-worker, proposing his name for eye, ear, nose and throat specialists.
“Wouldn’t they be called  ‘boogermen’?”–me
Librarians, engaged in edifying conversation, at your library–not (or snot as the case may be) ….

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Re: Bringing the Sexy Back

Posted in Humor, Politics (National), tagged , , on August 13, 2009 | 1 Comment »

When I saw this picture of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, I immediately thought “hubba, hubba” and then I was promptly horrified. To understand why I was shocked by my own reaction, you have to remember that I grew up when the Cold War was still a go. While I don’t live in Osgiliath and [...]

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Re: Invasion of the Whistle-Pigs

Posted in Hobbiton life, tagged , , on August 2, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Mother Method and I were at home, kippering slowly in the hot and smoke-filled house, when she directed my attention to a small animal in the backyard. I came to the window expecting to see a snowshoe hare or a squirrel. Instead, I saw something that I would have never expected to see in any [...]

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