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Posted By: Duckey
Posted On: Mar 31, 2009
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Duckey has been receiving rave reviews, and we’ve just been handed another to add to the list. The Midwest Book Review has given Duckey and the Ocean Protectors a big thumbs-up. “’Duckey and the Ocean Protectors’ is sure to entertain many a young reader.” In addition to serving up a...... [view]
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Posted By: melissasnowden
Posted On: Aug 30, 2008
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A Child's Life and Other Stories by Phoebe Gloeckner
My review
rating: 3 of 5 stars Phoebe Gloeckner introduces one of the stories "a tale with no moral," the common thread in these comic-based tales. What I come away with is insight into a life complicated. Small excerpts...... [view]
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Posted By: chuxley
Posted On: Aug 29, 2008
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If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things by Jon McGregor My review rating: 4 of 5 stars This was McGregor's first book. It was nominated for the Booker prize. The story begins on a quiet urban street in England where a community of neighbors have just witnessed a horrible...... [view]
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Posted By: chuxley
Posted On: Jul 22, 2008
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I seriously need to practice my book reviewing/writing skills. Good Reads makes it easy to do this. Here's two that I've recently read. Looking over them now I realize that I need to do a better job of summarizing what the book is about before diving in to my critique. The Man Who Made...... [view]
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Posted By: deane034
Posted On: Jul 10, 2008
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Ever since Stevens, Levitt and Dubner broke into the scene with their enormously popular Freakonomics , there has been a multitude of popular economics books. Books that uses the tools of economics -- the study of incentives, laws of supply and demand, trade-offs -- and apply them to everyday...... [view]
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Posted By: ascendency
Posted On: Jun 17, 2008
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[The author is currently part of The Summer of Solutions , but views are personal]
Over the past few days, we have seen a lot of contention on Its Getting Hot in Here over the critiques posed by the Breakthrough Generation fellows. On the one hand, recent posts call for open and...... [view]
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Posted By: ighih
Posted On: Jun 17, 2008
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[The author is currently part of The Summer of Solutions , but views are personal]
Over the past few days, we have seen a lot of contention on Its Getting Hot in Here over the critiques posed by the Breakthrough Generation fellows. On the one hand, recent posts call for open and...... [view]
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Posted By: ibrahimjon
Posted On: Feb 19, 2008
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Unusual and cold winter with electricity limit encouraged me read books and just a few days ago I completed reading a book The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini though it is a fiction I could understand how it was difficult for ordinary Afghan people who had to leave their country during...... [view]
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Posted By: ighih
Posted On: Feb 8, 2008
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Jack Johnson caught our attention this week with the release of his latest album, Sleep Through the Static , and with some interesting thoughts on environmental philosophy. In an interview with the Santa Barbara Independent, he said:
“I read in a book recently...... [view]
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Posted By: ascendency
Posted On: Feb 8, 2008
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Jack Johnson caught our attention this week with the release of his latest album, Sleep Through the Static , and with some interesting thoughts on environmental philosophy. In an interview with the Santa Barbara Independent, he said:
“I read in a book recently...... [view]
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