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From 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
Via: 1morechapter.com
2000s
1. Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro
2. Saturday – Ian McEwan
3. On Beauty – Zadie Smith
4. Slow Man – J.M. Coetzee
5. Adjunct: An Undigest – Peter Manson
6. The Sea – John Banville
7. The Red Queen – Margaret Drabble
8. The [...]

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The 2008 Tournament of Books - The Morning News
And the winner is…!

CRITICAL MASS: In Retrospect: “Disgrace,” Coetzee’s Masterpiece

Brainstorm: The Value of Roget - Chronicle.com

Peak Energy: Zero Point Energy Inventor Self-Destructs
They warned us not to do it.

The Reading Experience: A Wedge Between Writers and Readers
“It’s tempting simply to dismiss these as the philistine remarks they clearly [...]

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I left a bit of code in the Leonard Cohen post that messed up my page layout. All appears to be well now. Whew.

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You may have heard that Veterans Affairs only recently added the pentacle the list of emblems permitted for display on government headstones. My S.O. passed along this site that displays all the symbols currently allowed by the VA. While you’re there, scroll down to the end of the list and note:

CHRISTIAN SCIENTIST (Cross & [...]

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Can you name 50 states in 10 minutes? From IronicSans.

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… to Charlottesville Words, a blog for readers and writers in the greater Charlottesville area.

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