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What Are Some Eye-Opening Books You’ve Read That Improved Your Quality of Life?

There are many variations of the “What’s Your Favourite Book?” question online (many of which I’ve posted in the past.) Reddit recently provided another good one.

“Rome Sweet Rome” – A Very Cool Web-Generated Novella

A Redditor asks if a modern battalion of a couple thousand Marines could beat the hundreds of thousands of men in the Roman Legion to take over the

Alberta’s Got Gas and Sask’s Got a Pharm!

I’m currently reading a book called “Stampede! The Rise of the West and Canada’s New Power Elite” by Gordon Pitts of the Globe & Mail. This book came

Best Music Books of All-time

Hipster hangout, Pitchfork, gets their editors to name their 60 favourite music books of all-time. I haven’t read all of them but have definitely read a few –

How I Choose Which Book To Read Next

We leave for Newfoundland tomorrow morning and as our first extended trip without Pace (10 days!) I’m extremely excited about the possibility of doing lots of uninterrupted reading.

Too Many Tabs Tuesday

“Men, Which Books or Movies Have Most Resonated With Your Inner Thoughts?” (AskMF) MetaSkim – a new news site that attempts to provide targeted local news (MetaFilter) YouTube

Go The F*ck to Sleep – As Read by Samuel L. Jackson

This book’s been floating around the web for awhile now but now someone has uploaded an audio version which to my ears sounds like the real Samuel L.

Wisdom Wednesday – Librarians Are Pushers & Hookers

I recently did a post about speakers I’ve seen at various conferences and elsewhere. In the post, I said it was the work version of another list I’d

In A Reverse of the Ongoing Move Towards Digitization of Books…

…the Internet Archive has announced a project to create an archive of one (physical) copy of every single book ever published.

Books That Are Most Representative of Various Countries?

AskMF has a great list of novels that capture the essence of various countries around the world. (Unfortunately, why do I suspect that even with the wider selection

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