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The Amateur Book Blogger: Book Club Bonanza - Lottery with Patricia Wood
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Tuesday, December 9, 2008. Book Club Bonanza - Lottery with Patricia Wood. So last night was our Book Club's meeting about "Lottery". And the author, Patricia Wood, joined us from Hawaii via skype video conference, to talk about writing the book, its themes, answer and discuss our questions, and share a privileged sneak preview to the prologue of her new book on the way. What do we value in life? What makes a family? Posted by the Amateur Book Blogger. Consider yourself tagged, deary. December 09, 2008.
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The Amateur Book Blogger: January 2009
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Tuesday, January 6, 2009. The View From Here - Best Weblog Awards 2008. To end on a high note, The View From Here Magazine. The literary blog to which I have regularly contributed news and features over the last quarter of 2008, is shortlisted for the 2008 Best Weblog Awards. It made the final ten in the 'Best UK Blog'. Category. Other blogs in this category include, Melanie Philips from the Spectator, Created in Birmingham which last year won the MediaGuardian Award and Neil Clark. Links to this post.
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The Amateur Book Blogger: Monday news: 85th post and time for Reflection
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Monday, December 29, 2008. Monday news: 85th post and time for Reflection. As the book quiz result. Told me, "All you wanted was a nice cup of tea when some haggard crazy old man came into your life and told you it was time to do something with yourself. Now you’re all conflicted about whether to stick with your stay-at-home lifestyle or follow this crazy person into the wild." So I'm off into the wild. Still plenty of great reading over at The View From Here. What's going to happen in publishing in 2009?
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The Amateur Book Blogger: Seven Fun Facts - About Me
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Thursday, December 11, 2008. Seven Fun Facts - About Me. Stella tagged me,. So here's my seven fun facts, why not? Mind you, fun is relative, and so since I've never done this before, I'll not try too hard to be funny, just not too serious. 1 I'm the same star sign as Mark Twain and JFK. 2 James Anderson, the first man to lay transatlantic cables in 1866, was born in 1824 in the same town as I was. 3 I am thirteen centimeters shorter than Jennifer Lopez. 7 I'm a Mum of two and a third. (WIP). This is my ...
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The Amateur Book Blogger: Thursday thought: Book Reading on Decline in Germany
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Thursday, December 4, 2008. Thursday thought: Book Reading on Decline in Germany. Youth and adults alike are reading less, reported the study by the Stiftung Lesen. In Germany today. It is the third such study, carried out by researchers since 1992, of the reading habits of more than 2,500 people over 14 years of age. The number of books per household has also fallen. What is interesting to me, was the stronger emphasis in non-German native households on reading. Thirty-six percent read a book once o...
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The Amateur Book Blogger: June 2008
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Wednesday, June 4, 2008. The Road Home and Inglorious take the Orange. Congratulations to Rose Tremain, who has won the Orange Prize for Fiction 2008, with her novel "The Road Home". Like so many others, Lev is on his way from Eastern Europe to Britain, seeking work. He is a tiny part of a vast diaspora that is changing British society. But Lev is also a singular man with a vivid outsider’s vision of the place we call home.". Joanna Kavenna takes the prize for new writers with "Inglorious". The universal...
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The Amateur Book Blogger: April 2008
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Friday, April 25, 2008. When a young man meets a girl and tells her what a fine man he is, that’s called promotion. When he tells her how beautiful she looks, that’s advertising. But when the girl chooses to go out with him because others told her what a fine man he is, that’s Public Relations. Alwin Münchmeyer (1908-90) German Businessman and Banker. Posted by the Amateur Book Blogger. Links to this post. Friday, April 18, 2008. UK and Ireland residents: Daily Mail/Transworld First Novel Prize. Scriblis...
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The Amateur Book Blogger: The View From Here - Best Weblog Awards 2008
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Tuesday, January 6, 2009. The View From Here - Best Weblog Awards 2008. To end on a high note, The View From Here Magazine. The literary blog to which I have regularly contributed news and features over the last quarter of 2008, is shortlisted for the 2008 Best Weblog Awards. It made the final ten in the 'Best UK Blog'. Category. Other blogs in this category include, Melanie Philips from the Spectator, Created in Birmingham which last year won the MediaGuardian Award and Neil Clark. The View From Here.
