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 [The Prattling Pastor's Wife] I've Been Tagged... by Cindy Downes at Homeschool...: Ok, before I tell you how many books we have in our home let me start by saying this is merely a rounded estimate and it is counting all my old education books, children's books, theology books, fiction, non-fiction, cookbooks and every other kind of book we could possibly have. I do not have a database but plan on working on one now that I have my own laptop.

 [Wayward Puppy] Digital Fortress: Well, I enjoyed this book, certainly much more than even "Angels and Demons" and "The Da Vinci Code." Yes, some of it is not exactly plausible (the ease it was to hack the NSA) and repetitive from his other books (the co-spy who's always a chick supermodel with the PhDs), but one should note this is a work of fiction. You pick it up to be entertained moreso that you would a science or current affairs text.

[Weblog.siliconvalley.com] Silicon Valley - Dan Gillmor's eJournal: take a few cheap shots at Bill Clinton. Explaining why the president had neither returned to Washington nor even bothered to come out and read a statement of sorrow, The Washington Post reported that one official said: "'The president wanted to be fully briefed on our efforts. He doesn't want to make a symbolic statement about 'We feel your pain.' Many Bush aides believe Clinton was too quick to head for the cameras and to hold forth on tragedies with his trademark sympathy.

[Noggs.typepad.com] The Reading Experience: I find it hard to think of the postmodern fiction of the 1960s and 70s as any kind of "downer," or as engaged in any kind of social commentary (advocating either inward or outward change) except in the most indirect and contingent way. It seems to me that what postmodern fiction shares with the social climate of the 60s is a spirit of excess and playful innovation, a sense that old forms are bursting at the seams. The work of such writers as Barthelme and Barth, Coover and Elkin, Sorrentino and Hawkes (all named as among Howard's favorites at the time) is most notable for its formal and stylistic energy, almost exuberance, which transmits to the reader at least as much excitement about the untapped possibilities of fiction as it does criticism of political and social arrangements.

 [Cupcakeseries.blogspot.com] Cupcake: Because you've had enough chick lit, and it's time for ...: Quinn and Tayari both took part in a conversation, along with Carrie A. Frye and Gwenda Bond, that was published by Dan Wickett and the Emerging Writers Network yesterday. Entitled, "Emerging Southern Women Writers and Bloggers Discuss...Labels", the discussion playfully yet unflinchingly explored some of the extra adjectives that writers -- and most often women writers -- can get saddled with early in their careers.

[Jameswolcott.com] James Wolcott: I'm amused, amazed, and annoyed that bloggers thousands of miles away from the actual death and destruction chide the rest of us for "not getting it" and wanting to bury our heads in the sandtrap when, as Sir Lancelot notes, New Yorkers themselves have a saner, wider, calmer perspective as the years pass. And unlike so many of the 101st Fighting Keyboarders, New Yorkers don't have the luxury of or inclination to demonize Arabs and Muslims and hat-tip Michelle Malkin or run sceered every time a couple of Them materialize in our visual field. Every time we step into a cab or enter a store, there's a good chance that the driver or manager may be Pakistani or Iranian or Iraqi or Palestinian and they don't represent the Other, they're fellow New Yorkers, we all have get on each nerves here as best we can, and if we wanted to hang around nothing but white people concerned about their car insurance and those noisy skateboarders who have no respect for private property we never would have moved here in the first place.

[Blog.moxiecinema.com] MOXIE { blog } // I'll be damned if this isn't the coolest blog in ...: We met all kinds of people on Friday night - blog readers, Moxie supporters, government officials, downtown proprietors, popcorn enthusiasts, actors, producers, directors, looky-loos, peek-a-boos, and, of course, an interesting fellow in a cowboy hat who was insistent upon breaking my balls over our delayed opening (in a good-spirited way, of course). A couple blog readers (Whitty and Nate) even brought gifts!

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