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The Bike to Work Guide: What You Need to Know to Save Gas, Go Green, Get Fit will ship in November, be in stores by December, and be on sale everywhere by January. It’s now available for “pre-order” on Amazon.com and elsewhere. Affordably priced at only $7.95, the Bike to Work Guide...

Timothy Egan’s response to Steve Jobs, who said, “the fact is that people don’t read anymore.” The shortlist for the Diagram Prize for the Oddest Book Title of the year. Will Ashford’s book art. Lee Kottner’s two part post on copyright. William Skidelsky on book reviewing...

“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values, but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact, non-Westerners never do.” - Samuel P. Huntington Can one support the troops without supporting the [...]

I don’t know about you, but the dribble that comes from the presidential candidates via electronic media arrives in piles and says nothing about what we can expect if they win. The solution? Read their books. So which Presidential candidate is worth reading? Most people would probably choose the...

As my 39th birthday approaches, I wrestle more and more with time. Impending death focuses the mind, right? Well, it’s not as bad as all that, really, but like an invasive species, I find myself appreciating time’s aesthetic while wanting to spray it with dimensional herbicide. With my own...

The Devil of Great Island by Emerson W. Baker was released at the beginning of last month. I assume the book’s marketing team figured since they had a piece on witchcraft, a pre-Halloween release might boost initial sales. As the book is an excellent piece of historical research, my guess is some...

               Let me apologize in advance. Many thanks to the Love of Reading Online Book Fair for including me on their guest blogger list.  While my presence tends to pull down the collective reputation of any group, after reading the posts of the other guest bloggers I see there is enough quality...

Today’s picture comes from the Brighton Memorial Library. Technorati Tags: Rochester NY, Rochester, Picture, pics, book

          Evil Genius, by Catherine Jinks, is the kind of literature that adolescents should be reading. Jinks has written a fresh Bildungsroman about a very special orphan who attends a very special school, and she does it without the idealistic nonsense that characterizes so many monomyth varietals...

The garden is alive and it is created to endure just the way a human being comes into the world and lives, suffers, enjoys, and is mortal....Is the cycle any easier to accept in the garden, than in a human life? Both of them are hard to take! In both cases, there is a sense not only of obligation, but...