Twenty books to keep you busy this holiday season.
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Innovative Book Recycling Ideas
Fun and interesting things to do with old books. I especially liked learning how to hollow out an old book to make a secret hiding place. I couldn't get the link to the Student Hacks article to work but the other links are good.
Read more »Technology may be altering how brains work
Some scientists think the wired world may be changing the way we read, learn and interact with each other. (admittedly, as a novel writer and as a parent, I find this story disturbing on several levels. We need to encourage our youth to read and we only do that by modeling the behavior, not by making it homework)
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Adventurous Women Blog: Start a book club
Have you ever wanted to join a book club? Here's a post to help you start one of your own.
Read more »It’s All About the Books
A great list of 100 books that you really should read. How many have you read from the list? The average is 6 but it should be higher.
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Free Books from Random House
Random House is giving away free books through its "Read it Forward" newsletter. Great opportunities for bloggers and book clubs too.
Read more »Publishing of a book on Islam halted for fear of violence
Publisher Random House has pulled a novel about the Prophet Mohammed's child bride, fearing it could "incite acts of violence."
"The Jewel of Medina," a debut novel by journalist Sherry Jones, 46, was due to be published on August 12 by Random House, a unit of Bertelsmann AG, and an eight-city publicity tour had been scheduled, Jones told Reuters on Thursday.
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Mom and daughter team to conquer publishing
This mother and daughter team pair up to write their own novel. I'm very impressed by this story...I can barely handle Christmas with my mom :). This is actually a really neat story about how they worked together to get this really great 'tween' book published.
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Michaelle: Happy 2009 everyone!
Lorna: Happy Holidays!
Lorna: Welcome Suzanne, it's great to welcome you to Boudica!
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Lorna: Don't miss Michaelle's Adventurous Gifts post - great ideas!
Lorna: Happy Thanksgiving!
Lorna: Sorry you missed it Joyce. Michaelle has some great posts to keep an eye on.
Joyce_Gaines: I should have read some of these stories days ago. Wouuldn't have missedd the meteor show news.
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