Monthly Archives: December 2008

Why Are The Ice Caps Melting?

I have to confess that I came across and began reading Mark Lynas’ Six Degrees several weeks before I happened upon last week’s Plan B, by Lester R. Brown.   The Brown book,  while almost as scary as Six Degrees was … Continue reading

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Plan B 3.0

I’ve only done this once before,  but I honestly believe that if you care about the future of our planet, at all,  you MUST read this book!   If you regularly read books about environmental issues,  it can be easy to … Continue reading

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Golden Legacy

In a comment on this post, Jodith of the Administrative Arts blog remarked that the Little Golden Book of Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer was her favorite children’s book.   Being the reader-oriented good blog host that I am,  I went … Continue reading

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Armchair Travel From the I's: India and Ireland

I just love big, beautiful books.    Ron teases me sometimes about bringing home books by the pound but I am often unable to resist truly, stunningly gorgeous big books like INDIA by Abraham Eraly et als.  I am truly sorry … Continue reading

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Stat-Spotting A Field Guide To Identifying Dubious Data

If you are a blog author or a blog reader who writes about or reads about subjects such as business, economics, politics, social issues or any other field where folks break out cold, hard statistics to back up their positions, … Continue reading

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Sleazy Dirt

Sleazy.  I doubt journalist and author Mark LaFlamme will object to my using this adjective to describe him,  although I don’t intend it as a compliment.   LaFlamme,  crime reporter and columnist for the Lewiston (Maine) Sun Journal describes himself on … Continue reading

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Thursday Link Love

Happy Thursday!   Time for me to give some link love to my top Entrecard droppers.   As has become my custom,  I am uploading the book cover images for ten books which caught my eye at the library but which I … Continue reading

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Book Review: In The Land Of Invisible Women

I have to admit right off that I, like most Americans,  know very, very little about Saudi Arabia.   I vaguely remember when I was just a child that my mother worked for a builder/developer who did some business in and … Continue reading

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Thirteen Reasons Why

Suicide is not an easy subject to tackle in a novel,  so I have to give Jay Asher credit for coming up with a creative way of doing so, even though Thirteen Reasons Why  (a current Young Adult release from … Continue reading

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Merry Christmas, Curious George

Fans of the curious little money who lives with the never named Man With The Yellow Hat and whose curiosity inevitably leads him on all sorts of adventures  will undoubtedly love Merry Christmas, Curious George.   In this installment George and … Continue reading

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