December 2007
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Top 10 Craft and Hobby Books: 2007 →
Booklist’s Top 10 Craft and Hobby Books, 2007: We continue to insist that craft and hobby books offer more fun and diversion per pound than any other type of book, and year after year, our conviction is reconfirmed by the continued appearance of new approaches to the world of crafts and hobbies. The following titles were selected from among those reviewed in Booklist over the past year.
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What Not To Read?
Librarians are used to offering suggestions for what to read, but what about what not to read?
We asked a few Sarasota County librarians to name the worst book they read in 2007. These are their responses:
Veronica by Mary Gaitskill
Horizon Storms by Kevin Anderson
Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan
Cowboy and Octopus by John Scieszka
Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk
What’s the...
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DailyLit →
Read books by email or RSS: http://www.dailylit.com From KansasCity.com via LISnews.org: “A Web service called dailylit.com offers a very different reading experience. Choose a book from more than 500 available, and dailylit.com will deliver it to you via e-mail in regular installments, chunklets that take about five minutes to read.” Read a few free installments of most books, and...
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Today in History
From “The Writer’s Almanac” radio show, Today is the birthday of Edith Piaf, Constance Garnett, Italo Svevo, Jean Genet, Eleanor Hodgman Porter and Richard Leakey. (Click the name to search SUNCAT.) On this day in 1843, Charles Dickens published “A Christmas Carol.” (Check out what events are upcoming for Beyond The Book’s “A Tale of Two Cities” by...
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The Salon.com Book Awards 2007
Salon.com picks their best books for 2007. Read the story, see what others are saying about the picks, and look for the books in SUNCAT below: Fiction: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz Sacred Games by Vikram Chandra Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson The Yiddish Policeman’s Union by Michael Chabon Nonfiction: The Father of All Things...
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BAM: Book A Month Challenge →
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Reference Question of the Day
Question: I’ll be baking quite a bit during the holiday season. My oven is always such a mess after the holidays. It has a self-cleaning setting. I’ve always wondered: How does an oven clean itself? Answer: According to the website “How Stuff Works” (http://howstuffworks.com/), self-cleaning ovens burn drips and dribbles away with very high heat. Self-cleaning ovens use...
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Monthly Recommended List from the National Book...
“…It felt like a moment had yet to be seized about finding out what a lot of people said was good. And what better people to ask than award winning novelists, historians, poets, critics and biographers? “These are the pie-in-the-sky notions that prompted the National Book Critics Circle to create a monthly Best Recommended List. Polling our nearly 800 members, as well as all ...
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