January 2011
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Library emptied in bid to fight closure →
This is certainly an interesting approach.
bookishquotes:
Yay for fighting to keep libraries!
teachingliteracy:
A town has emptied its library in a bid to fight plans to close it down.
People in Stony Stratford, near Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, have spent the week withdrawing their maximum allowance of books in protest against council plans to close it as part of budget cuts.
And...
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“I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Austen’s restrained Regency romances looked old-fashioned and irrelevant...”
– How Jane Austen Conquered the World, by Claire Harman
(those are fighting words Charlotte Bronte. don’t even let me get started on Jane Eyre. dramatic much?)
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“We have seen myriad posts about Blogging Rules around the Internets last year...”
– The Book Smugglers » Blog Archive » Smugglivus 2010: Airing of Grievances (via birdpoo)
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Bones Epi 100 - Quotes →
There were some great quotes in Episode 100. Such hope I had then!
What's Old Is New: Tale of Two Cities Readalong →
whatsoldisnew:
In addition to What’s Old is New, Nicole and I have about a million projects together. One thing we are doing this year is challenging each other to read certain books we’ve loved and, as part of that, we’re going to do a readalong. Even before Oprah picked it as part of her final book…