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...or too many books: February 2010
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Or too many books. Sunday, February 28, 2010. The Small Budget Gardener: All the Dirt on Saving Money in Your Garden. Over the next ten years, I tamed the yard. It was a period of trial and error, finding the best tools for the job, finding plants and seeds, learning to compost and most importantly, finally learning to identify poison ivy to which I am horribly allergic. That experience shaped the frugal gardener that I am now. I only have two small quibbles with the material. She devotes an entire c...
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...or too many books: Morning Miracle: Inside The Washington Post: A Great Newspaper Fights For Its Life
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Or too many books. Tuesday, January 25, 2011. Morning Miracle: Inside The Washington Post: A Great Newspaper Fights For Its Life. I couldn’t wait to get my hands on this book. Although not a reader of. I am well aware of the reputation of this great periodical and the legends who work there, both past and present. How is it faring in an era when newsprint is being steadily replaced by websites and blogs? How is it changing to meet these challenges? Became a world-class institution? Thrown into the mix at...
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George Szirtes: June 2015
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Wednesday, 24 June 2015. Worlds Literature Festival 2015:. 5 Putting the octopus back in the suitcase. Travels with my octopus. T he last provocations, on Friday were by the Turkish writer, Elif Shafak. And the British publisher, David Graham. Elif Shafak’s provocation. Too had done - particularly p. Ublishing in the west, could make one hated. Printing came late to the Islamic world, she continued, as late as the eighteenth century, but even then it could be controlled by the religious establishment....
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George Szirtes: Worlds Literature Festival 2015: 5 Putting the octopus back in the suitcase
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Wednesday, 24 June 2015. Worlds Literature Festival 2015:. 5 Putting the octopus back in the suitcase. Travels with my octopus. T he last provocations, on Friday were by the Turkish writer, Elif Shafak. And the British publisher, David Graham. Elif Shafak’s provocation. Too had done - particularly p. Ublishing in the west, could make one hated. Printing came late to the Islamic world, she continued, as late as the eighteenth century, but even then it could be controlled by the religious establishment....
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...or too many books: April 2010
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Or too many books. Friday, April 23, 2010. Sweetness and Light: The Mysterious History of the Honeybee. As an organic gardener, I am concerned with the health of the soil and the beneficial insects who pollinate crops and keep pests in check. "Colony Collapse Disorder", the mysterious die-off of honeybee hive populations, has been in the news for the past few years. Who are these insects and how did they come to be so important? Promises to answer that question but does so only imperfectly. One of the re...
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...or too many books: August 2010
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Or too many books. Monday, August 9, 2010. The Great Silence: Britain From the Shadow of the First World War to the Dawn of the Jazz Age. I was a little confused by the review of this book by Miranda Seymour in The New York Times Book Review. Which covers a longer time period and more wide ranging topics is organized similarly to the author’s first book, The Perfect Summer: England 1911, Just Before the Storm. Links to this post. Monday, August 2, 2010. Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Society.
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...or too many books: January 2011
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Or too many books. Tuesday, January 25, 2011. Morning Miracle: Inside The Washington Post: A Great Newspaper Fights For Its Life. I couldn’t wait to get my hands on this book. Although not a reader of. I am well aware of the reputation of this great periodical and the legends who work there, both past and present. How is it faring in an era when newsprint is being steadily replaced by websites and blogs? How is it changing to meet these challenges? Became a world-class institution? Thrown into the mix at...
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...or too many books: January 2010
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Or too many books. Sunday, January 31, 2010. The People of the Abyss. What Jacob Riis did for New York City with his photos of tenements, Jack London did for London with his book, The People of the Abyss. The abyss that he referred to was the squalid East End of London, where the poorest of the poor lived and died. Yet for all the similarities, there are important differences. We have laws governing the workplace and a social safety net that prevents the worst of the gruesome results of illness and u...
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