Bookish Blog Links

Kim of Kimbooktu is putting together a list of blogs concerned with books. The resulting page will list “bookish web blogs” available on the internet, in alphabetical order. You will be able to search the list by entering CTRL+F. If you know of a bookish link that is not listed on her site, please let [...]



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Tony Blair is very clear in advocating the UK’s need for the Son of Trident. Many of us thought that the myth of an independent nuclear deterrent for the UK was a waste of money and a danger to world peace in the twentieth century.
Certainly, now, it is hardly credible that such a device would [...]



Presque vu IX

Book Blogging credibility is put under scrutiny in this article from Metaxu Cafe:
Personally, I think it’s time that book bloggers came clean. It might sound ridiculous, but I honestly think we need a code of conduct. We need to tell our readers when we are reviewing free books or when we are taking part in [...]






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all art is deception and so is nature; all is deception in that good cheat, from the insect that mimics a leaf to the popular enticements of procreation. Do you know how poetry started? I always think that it started when a cave boy came running back to the cave, through the tall grass, shouting as he ran, "Wolf, wolf," and there was no wolf. His baboon-like parents, great sticklers for the truth, gave him a hiding, no doubt, but poetry had been born - the tall story had been born in the tall grass. Vladimir Nabokov

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