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  “I’m making my way — carefully and very happily — through Gryphon, Charles Baxter’s career-spanning story collection. I’m a long time fan of Charles Baxter. I discovered him in my early 20s, and his work made everything else I’d been reading feel a bit hollow. [...]

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• "Unbroken" by Laura Hillenbrand - an audiobook review

  

  If you read a novel that mimicked the life of Louis Zamperini, the subject of Laura Hillenbrand's riveting bestseller Unbroken, you'd think the story was too incredible to be true. But Unbroken (subtitled A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption) is [...]

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  “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is by itself on my bedside table since it’s at least 40,000 pages long. I want to have it finished (for the second time) before [I see] the final movie. . . . I love all the Harry Potter [...]

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• It's hard to say goodbye to Harry Potter

  

  I find I can't quite let go of Harry Potter.

  First let me confess: Though I once was one of those slightly scary adults who went out and bought Harry Potter books on the day they were released - and read them with the excitement of [...]

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• Miami proposes to close 13 libraries

  

  Yes, I have my occasional wars with the library system (Broward County in my case - and no, I still don't understand why I have to update my phone number IN PERSON and not online; it's 2011, for crying out loud). But I sympathize [...]

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• Why book stores love George R.R. Martin's new book

  

  And here you thought brick and mortar stores were done.

  Not quite yet. Apparently George R.R. Martin has done them a big favor by releasing his fifth book, A Dance with Dragons, this week.

  Julie Bosman of the New York Times reports that independent booksellers report that Dragons has [...]

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• Great summer read: Chris Bohjalian's "Secrets of Eden"

  I look at summer as a good time to catch up on the things I have wanted to read but haven't quite managed to get around to yet. A few weeks back I finally pulled out Chris Bohjalian's Secrets of Eden from the ever-growing stacks around the house (no, I [...]

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  “ The End of Everything by Megan Abbott. It’s so good. Megan is one of my best friends, and we do writing projects together, but we don’t talk about works in progress. Her book also has a girl detective theme similar to my book . [...]

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• "Tiny Sunbirds, Far Away" - a review

  

  “It is amazing, what you can get used to,” marvels 12-year-old Blessing, the plucky protagonist of Christie Watson’s heartfelt coming-of-age novel, set in Nigeria but resoundingly universal in its depiction of a family struggling to rise above hard and dangerous times.

  Tiny Sunbirds, Far Away is [...]

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  “I’m working my way (again) through John D. MacDonald’s Travis McGee series, and have just gotten to #12, The Long Lavender Look. Travis McGee wrecks his car to avoid hitting a beautiful young woman and winds up charged with murder in a small town in [...]

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