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  • 23Sep

    Ban Lifts On Indecent Eve

    After being banned for 105 years, patrons of the Charlton Public Library in Massachusetts can finally get their hands on the book Eve’s Diary by Mark Twain.  The book, Twain’s satirical version of the Adam and Eve story, was banned

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    By Jim in Books 2 Comments »
  • 03Jul

    Sin In Their Blood by Ed Lacy

    MATT RANZINO Ex-fighter, ex-cop, ex-private detective. Home after fighting in Korea, he wanted quiet—but a killer had other plans for him. HARRY LOUGHLIN He and Matt had been partners before the war. Was now a professional blackmailer. FLO Sensual blonde

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  • 05Jun

    Girls On The Brain?

    I’m not the fan of science-fiction, at least when it relates to space travel, that I used to be.  One thing I’ve never grown tired of is the bizarre artwork that tends to accompany it. The illustration above comes from

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  • 01May

    Ghost Writers

    Hot off the Project Gutenberg presses: A Book Written by the Spirits of the So-Called Dead by C.G. Helleberg. A small stand of the ordinary kind in construction, covered by a table cloth, was used, the medium placing with one

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    By Jim in Books 5 Comments »
  • 20Dec

    Humbug You Say?

    I posted that link earlier to the latest Google creation that scans years, and years worth of books and measures usage over that time (maybe too simplistic an explanation). Since it is almost Christmas, let’s take a look at how

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    By Jim in Books 2 Comments »
  • 03Aug

    The Avenger by Matthew Blood

    “He knew neither fear nor mercy–only that his gun wrote justice.” I love the Stanza app on my ipod touch. The ability to have countless books in my pocket for some spur of the moment reading is great. I don’t

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