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Not Your Usual Writer’s Home

Texas Monthly has an interesting sneak peek into sci-fi writer Christopher Brown’s unusual home. The attorney/author lives in Austin, TX and built with a heavy focus on sustainability and nature, partially burying the living areas under several feet of ground and vegetation. “During the three days they were without power, the temperature indoors never dropped…

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A Cluster of All-Purpose Book News: February 11, 2019

Quote of the Post: “Maybe everybody in the whole damn world is scared of each other.” – John Steinbeck, “Of Mice and Men.” And he never even read a Facebook post. It’s International Day of Women and Girls in Science, so put down your protractor and pick up one of these books. Sidney Sheldon, who…

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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark

In my mind, no writer and illustrator were better paired than Alvin Schwartz and Stephen Gammell. Go ahead, ask a Gen X’er: “Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark” and its sequels were more terrifying than “Nightmare on Elm Street” or even some of the creepiest “Little House on the Prairie” episodes. (You’ll have to…

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I Was A Barnes & Noble Bookseller

Yesterday I applied for a job at Barnes & Noble. The last time I?d done so was when I was 21 in 1996, after my my mother interrupted an afternoon spent watching Tom & Jerry. ?I think we should have a dialog about your plans for getting a job,? she told me. ?It begins,? I…

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#tbt The Book of Lists

I love trivia. Trivial Pursuit is the only board game I’ll play. Probably because it?s the only one I?m good at. (Well, that and Stratego.) I get very competitive?for me, trivial knowledge is personal. I knew that Craig Claiborne was The New York Times? restaurant critic when the first Genus edition of Trivial Pursuit came…

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