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The Greatest Christmas Present for a book lover

17 hours ago ago from A Novel Read

This year for Christmas my parents gave my husband and I each a $50 gift certificate to the bookstore. Glee! This afternoon we sat down with the computer and put together a list of all the books we have been wanting that are not easily accessible from the library. We decided to go online rather than in the store because too often we can't find the books we want when we're shopping (I could go on a rant about bookstores becoming gadget, toy, ...

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Who Collects Books? What Is Your Repertoire? Why Do You Collect? Where Do You Get Your Collectilbe Books?

8 hours ago ago from FHA Mortgage Blog

I am wondering these What is your repertoire of antique and collectible books in your collection? Where do you get your books? I get my books at used bookstores. I find you can get good for books for a low price. Why do you collect books? I collect books because I enjoy it. And it is something that you get to look forward to doing. When I have books on loan I am just exited! To get it. It is just the whole thought I am getting a another ...

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Chinese Author Liu Xiaobo Sentenced to 11 Years in Prison

22 hours ago ago from mediabistro.com: GalleyCat - The First Word On the Book Publishing Industry

Following a trial that lasted less than three hours, a Beijing court has sentenced Chinese writer Liu Xiaobo to 11-years in prison and and "two years' deprivation of political rights" for subversion in his writings. One year ago, Chinese authorities arrested Xiaobo (pictured), a member of the Independent Chinese PEN Center board. According to the PEN American Center , the Chinese author was arrested for the crime of 'inciting subversion ...

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How to Publish Your Book

21 hours ago ago from Universal Knowledge Part Z

Everyone has a book in them, or so the saying goes. I have always been interested in writing, and around ten years ago even took a course in creative writing, but then did nothing with it. A few years ago, I realised that the only way to become a writer, was to actually get on and WRITE SOMETHING ! I know that sounds daft, but until then I'd somehow magically thought that writing would come to me it didn't, so I knuckled down and took a look ...

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25 Books that Failed to Make My Top 25 Fictions List

10 hours ago ago from Vaguely Borgesian

Scanning through my written down list of books read for this year, I began taking notes of which books would comprise my 25 Favorite 2009 Fictions and which would fall just short. Below is a list of 25 books (most, but not all are novels, just as some of those that made my list were not novels) that for the most part will not appear in any of my other lists (with the exception of a few). There is no involved in these books; I wrote based on ...

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