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| BY THE BOOKS (New York Post) |
| IF you absolutley have to have a fad diet, here is the latest crop of diet books: "The 9-Inch Diet," by Alex Bogusky with Chuck Porter The claim: Your dinnerware is making you fat. Statistics show that from 1950 to today, our plates have grown 3... |
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| Naperville library hopes kids 'Go Bananas for Books' (Daily Herald) |
| Crack open a book and it's like transporting yourself to another place and time with no plane, no boat, no car. Last year, 1,767 kids spent a total of 18,186 hours diving into books and authors' fantasylands with no secret code, no key, no portal more magical than pages of print. |
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| Aught-Eight Oughts: Favorite Books of the Year (and One Aught-Eight Naught) (Blogcritics.org) |
| Featuring Machiavelli, Clarence Darrow, screechy monkeys, D.W. Griffith, a "very special" Golden Girls, Emperor Akbar's court, "man you shoulda seen them kickin' Edgar Allan Poe..." Although my pick for Best Fiction is of a colorful and considerably multi-layered literary heft, fiction overall for me was put on the back burner in 2008 (bad choice of words perhaps - this isn’t Banned Books Week, ... |
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