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| Agincourt is a fast-paced historical thriller with plenty of blood and steel. Cornwell puts you right in the battlefield mud of Agincourt through his sympathetic but flawed main characters, and the wealth of gritty historical detail brings the 15th c...more | |||||||||||
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| Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore is a literary mystery framing a book that’s really about our relationship with technology. The characters are standard-issue post dot-com stereotypes, and the central mystery often takes a back seat to witty banter an...more | |||||||||||
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The Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures in the World of Chinese Food
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Think Galactic discussion of Zone One by Colson Whitehead
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August 09, 2012 07:30AM
location: Myopic Books, 1564 N Milwaukee, Chicago, IL, The United States description: A lovely discussion about the next book on our list for 2012: Zone One by Colson Whitehead. For extra credit, go see him speak at the Harold Washington Public library on July 18!! And then tell the group all about it!! |
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“My Manager forced me to put my beetle in my own ear, a clear waste and an act that gave me nightmares: of a burning city through which giant carnivorous lizards prowled, eating survivors off of balconies. In one particularly vivid moment, I stood on a ledge as the jaws closed in, heat-swept, and tinged with the smell of rotting flesh. Beetles intended for the tough, tight minds of children should not be used by adults. We still remember a kinder, gentler world.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, The Third Bear
― Jeff VanderMeer, The Third Bear
Books I Loathed
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This is a public forum for people to kvetch (cleanly, please) about books they absolutely hated, and for others to respond. Though nonfiction is certa...more
The Sword and Laser
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Online discussion forum for the Sword and Laser video show, podcast and book club! Subscribe to the audio podcast: http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/sw...more
Goodreads Librarians Group
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A place where all Goodreads members can work together to improve the Goodreads book catalog. Non-librarians are welcome to join the group as well, to...more
Public Librarians
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Yet another way to connect and work on our Readers' Advisory.
Think Galactic
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— last activity Jun 06, 2013 09:58am
Think Galactic is a Chicago-based reading group that seeks to discuss speculative fiction [science fiction, fantasy, & horror] from a radical left per...more
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