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14 hours ago ago from Logismoi

Giving heed to the insistent pleas of my children, I accompanied them to Half Price Books yesterday. As I looked about at the shelves, hoping to find anything really good before redshield3 got there, I noticed a book resembling the one depicted here. It turns out HarperCollins is publishing a Narnia series meant to recreate the 1950 edition. From the inside flap of the dust jacket: This book in The Chronicles of Narnia series is produced to ...

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11 hours ago ago from Freeper Madness

Red in Blue PA must not know a lot about economics. Or really anything: Nothing good comes out of Chicago. ichabod1 is super tough: It’s already time to start giving any feds you know the message. It’s a bad time to be a fed. Don’t expect any good neighbor treatment if you work for BO. Better keep your head on a swivel if you’re a fed - of any kind. Vaduz has invented some sort of new mass-death machine: It would be ...

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19 hours ago ago from Conversational Reading

Mark Athitakis has a nice post-Kirkus posting . He discusses the publication's much talked about policy of penning negative reviews: In short, it wasn’t a job for reviewers who cared only about books they felt pretty certain they’d like. Which speaks to the most contentious and, I think, admirable aspect of the magazine—that Kirkus‘ reviews were more negative than positive. Conventional wisdom argues that this is because the reviews were ...

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Matt Stewart: Hey Publishers, Screwing Your Best Customers Is A Mistake

22 hours ago ago from Huffington Post

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