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• 50 States of Reading: Oklahoma

  

  Oklahoma is Represented by Amped Daniel H. Wilson (Goodreads Author) 3.52 avg Read more

  Posted on 27 June 2012 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT

• Top Three Reads Second Quarter of 2012

  

  The top three books for the period between April and June was a very productive reading time for me. The books that most stood out were (in no particular... Read more

  Posted on 26 June 2012 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT

• Modern Library Read July 2012

  

  The poem was mentioned in the book Kim by Rudyard Kipling. The story KIM is our read for the month of July in 2012. One can listen to the story on Libri Vox... Read more

  Posted on 25 June 2012 BOOKS, CULTURE

• KIM by Rudyard Kipling (Media)

  Kim is this month's read for The Modern Library Reading Group in Good Reads. Please Come Join Us. http://librivox.org/kim-by-rudyard-ki...http://www.gutenberg. Read more

  Posted on 21 June 2012 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT

• Lord Jim (Everyman's Library by Joseph ConradMy Rating: 5...

  

  Lord Jim (Everyman's Library by Joseph ConradMy rating: 5 of 5 starsLORD JIM is a novel focused on the imperial zeitgeist of the age. The age is the years... Read more

  Posted on 20 June 2012 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT

• Sharp Teeth by Toby BarlowMy Rating: 5 of 5 starsGood Hor...

  

  Sharp Teeth by Toby BarlowMy rating: 5 of 5 starsGood horror shares with the reader the truth of society left on its own. The blackened heart is exposed, and th... Read more

  Posted on 19 June 2012 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT

• Library Notes:

  

  If I was deserted on an Island in the middle of the Pacific and could have only five books, which ones would they be? (My rules: 1. besides manuals, the bible,... Read more

  Posted on 16 June 2012 BOOKS

• ABC Review of Suck It Wonder Woman

  

  The book was an interesting investigation of a beauty amidst Geeks. What follows is an alphabet word search through the book. One looks for nouns with the... Read more

  Posted on 14 June 2012 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT

• As Mentioned...

  

  "I like the pottery but do I need it."A good question raised today by one of the many visitors to May Fair at Lake Morton. Then my wife states, "See Greg, I nee... Read more

  Posted on 12 May 2012 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Book Reviews: A Shot of (Faith) to the Head

  

  Mitch Stokes guides believers, through the quagmire and battlefield, in the atheist and faithful's civil war. "There’s a war, say the peacemakers, but it’s an... Read more

  Posted on 12 May 2012 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT

• Final Reflection of Jewish Literarture 2012

  David Mamet examines the roll of being a jew amidst gentiles in his play Goldberg Street; it is not that we want to be strange, it is that we are strangers in... Read more

  Posted on 11 May 2012 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT

• Best of 2012 First Quarter

  

  Top Three Books, I have read, from January to April 20121. The Stand by Stephen KingStephen King gets the zeitgeist of the times. He writes his books with... Read more

  Posted on 10 May 2012 BOOKS

• 50 States of Reading: Ohio

  

  Ohio, a land of great writers, including Donald Ray Pollock. We will read this state by Pollock's book The Devil All the Time. I am reading this book for the... Read more

  Posted on 01 May 2012 BOOKS

• As Mentioned....

  I have recently been seeing KONY 2012 signs posted throughout Polk County. I also have seen chalk graffiti of KONY 2012. So I looked up the video and this is... Read more

  Posted on 30 April 2012 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT

• Bar-Tending with Writers

  

  A Drink with Anthony Burgess mentioned in "A Clockwork Orange" pg 15Veteran(one shot) rum(one shot) cherry brandymix the two shots together.A Canadian... Read more

  Posted on 30 April 2012 BOOKS, DRINK

• 50 States of Reading: North Carolina

  

  Ms. North Carolina is represented by Ava Gardner. She moved to California, married Mickey Rooney, and lost her Carolina accent. She was born on Christmas Eve... Read more

  Posted on 27 April 2012 BOOKS

• As Mentioned....

  

  The Truth is Out There“There is a fundamental difference between religion, which is based on authority, [and] science, which is based on observation and reason,... Read more

  Posted on 26 April 2012 ENTERTAINMENT

• As Mentioned....

  

  Levy Solomon was a seller of wares to San Francisco Sailors. He also was a poet:My name is solomon Levy, And I keep a clothing storeAway up on Pacific Street-... Read more

  Posted on 20 April 2012 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT

• As Mentioned....

  

  Stephen King mentions this poem in his Danse Macabre. Children look at death as a poet looks at it with experimentation. "Horror movies are not sophisticated,... Read more

  Posted on 18 April 2012 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT

• Ghost Story by Peter StraubMy Rating: 5 of 5 starsI Thoug...

  

  Ghost Story by Peter StraubMy rating: 5 of 5 starsI thought the book was spectacularly spooky. The novel seems to be an homage to Edgar Allen Poe, Hawthorne, an... Read more

  Posted on 17 April 2012 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT