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Find out what your professors are reading!

Source: The Wellesley News, Dec 5 2012, 5:54pm CST

This winter, take a break from those job and internship applications and settle down with a few good books. In case you’re in need of fresh suggestions, are at a loss for gift ideas or are simply curious about wh ...

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6 hours ago

Banville's marginalia (vs. my own)

Source: The Elegant Variation  |   May 19 2013, 1:32pm CDT

The Elegant Variation is "Fowler’s (1926, 1965) term for the inept writer’s overstrained efforts at freshness or vividness of expression. Prose guilty of elegant variation calls attention to itself and doesn’t permit its ideas to seem ...

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12 hours ago

Read “Spank The Bank” to Choose the Right Financing for Your Business

Source: Small Business Trends  |   May 19 2013, 8:15am CDT

It was just a couple of years ago that I lamented about the lack of finance guides aimed at small business owners. Meanwhile, the number of non-traditional finance resources has increased, competing with traditional banking sources. ...

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23 weeks ago


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"Seamus Deane’s ‘Reading in the Dark.’ ‘Angela’s Ashes’ got a lot of fanfare but I think this book is better. I also really like Bill Bryson’s ‘A Walk in the Woods.’ I still giggle thinking about a man hiking with a Snickers bar."


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Why I stopped working with print publishers (for a while)

Source: Online Journalism Blog  |   May 18 2013, 3:13am CDT

I have just spent 10 months publishing an ebook. Not ‘writing’, or ‘producing’, but 10 months publishing. Just as the internet helped flatten the news industry – making reporters into publishers and distributors – it has done the same to ...

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2 days ago

Friday Links

Source: 800 CEO Read  |   May 17 2013, 2:38pm CDT

For your weekend perusal, here is another installment of Friday Links BISG executive director Len Vlahos gave an overview of “The Digital Consumer” using data from its “Consumer Attitudes Towards E-book Reading Survey,” in particular looking at the beha ...

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Guest Voice of Julie Wollman: Erie kids will get reading help

Source: GoErie.com  |   May 17 2013, 2:29pm CDT

Imagine being able to improve a child's chances of becoming a successful, responsible member of society simply by opening a book and reading. It's not magic or the happy ending of a story that begins "Once upon a time. .. ...

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2 days ago

Racine Public Library Honors SC Johnson as a Champion of Literacy

Source: PR Newswire  |   May 17 2013, 10:00am CDT

RACINE, Wis., May 17, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Yesterday, the Racine Public Library named Fisk Johnson, SC Johnson's Chairman and CEO, "Friend of the Library," their highest honor. Johnson received the award f ...

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Summer Reading Program going online

Source: Fremont Tribune  |   May 17 2013, 9:00am CDT

Keene Memorial Library’s Summer Reading Program is going online. For the first time, members of the Summer Reading Club will be able to register and participate online. Keene is also offering an adult segment of the ...

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3 days ago

Hilary Mantel: By the Book

Source: The New York Times  |   May 16 2013, 10:13am CDT

The author of “Wolf Hall” and “Bring Up the Bodies” prefers books with action: “I don’t like overrefinement, or to dwell in the heads of vaporous ladies with fine sensibilities.” What’s the best book you read in the last ye ...

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3 days ago

Technology!

Source: Conversational Reading   |   May 16 2013, 9:30am CDT

Since 2004. The blog of the critic, writer, and editor, Scott Esposito Ever wonder what English is missing? Called "a fascinating read" by The New Yorker, Translate This Book! brings together over 40 of the ...

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