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Noah Baird

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born

November 18, 1971 in Tampa, Fl., The United States

gender

male

website

http://noahbaird.com/

genre

Humor, Literature & Fiction, Science Fiction & Fantasy

influences

Tom Robbins, Christopher Moore, Mark Twain

member since

October 2010

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Noah Baird wanted to attend the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Clown College, but his grades weren’t good enough (who knew?). However, his grades were good enough to fly for the U.S. Navy (again, who knew?), where he spent 14 years until the government figured out surfers don’t make the best military aviators. He has also tried to be a stand-up comedian in Hawaii for Japanese tourists, where the language barrier really screwed up some great jokes. On the bright side, a sailboat was named after the punchline of one of his jokes.
He has several political satire pieces published on The Spoof under the pen name orioncrew. Noah received his bachelors in Historical and Political Sciences from Chaminade University, where he graduated magn...more

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Noah Baird's Blog

Raising Readers – Maurice Sendak is Dead and I Don’t Feel So Good Myself

I was lying in bed reading a book one night, when my oldest son came in.

“Dad, I can’t sleep. Can I read in here for a while?”

The answer wasn’t even out of my mouth before he dashed out of the room to fetch the book he had just started reading; the first book of The Spiderwick Chronicles series. He returned to my room, and I set up a pillow for him to lean on. After he had adjusted himself into...

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Books by Noah Baird

Average rating: 4.36 · 11 ratings · 6 reviews · 2 distinct works

	Donations to Clarity 4.22 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Change is in the Wind by Lazarus Barnhill (Goodreads Author), Deborah J Ledford (Goodreads Author), Noah Baird (Goodreads Author) 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	My rating:

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Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

by Seth Grahame-Smith

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A Very Bad Wizard: Morality Behind the Curtain

by Tamler Sommers

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Jan 28, 2012 06:31pm

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Noah Baird wrote a new blog post: Don’t Read This Buhlog Don’t Read This Buhlog I still don’t want to write a buhlog. My book isn’t selling well. Let me rephrase that: My book isn’t selling. I’ve been trying everything I can thi... read more »
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Noah Baird is currently reading: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame-Smith	My rating:
May 22, 2012 06:48pm
Noah Baird gave to: Imperial Bedrooms by Bret Easton Ellis read in May, 2012	My rating:
May 22, 2012 06:46pm
Noah Baird gave to: Your Wildest Dreams, Within Reason by Mike Sacks read in May, 2012	My rating:
May 18, 2012 07:39pm
Noah Baird gave to: Road Dogs by Elmore Leonard read in May, 2012	My rating:
May 13, 2012 06:58pm
Noah Baird marked as to-read: Weapons of Magical Destruction (Orcs: Bad Blood, #1) by Stan Nicholls	My rating:
May 03, 2012 06:37pm
Noah Baird gave to: Sacre Bleu: A Comedy d'Art by Christopher Moore read in April, 2012	My rating:
Apr 28, 2012 06:55pm
Noah Baird gave to: My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands by Chelsea Handler read in April, 2012	My rating:
Apr 11, 2012 07:15am
Noah Baird gave to: Apathy and Other Small Victories by Paul Neilan read in March, 2012	My rating:
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Noah Baird gave to: Sideways by Rex Pickett (Goodreads Author) read in March, 2012	My rating:
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