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A Reader's Book of Days: True Tales from the Lives and Works of Writers for Every Day of the Year
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Tom Nissley

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Liz Goodwin is on page 13 of 448

— Feb 20, 2014 02:07PM Add a comment

Ilana is on page 58 of 448

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Diane Barnes is on page 69 of 448

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Barb is on page 57 of 448

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Linda Gaines is on page 54 of 448

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Barb is on page 54 of 448

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Barb is on page 51 of 448

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Linda Gaines is on page 49 of 448

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Ilana is on page 48 of 448

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Lisa is on page 47 of 448

Feb 7 was Dickens' birthday and Feb 8th is a sort of Bloomsday for fans of Italo Calvino's Cosmicomics, I must read that one too!

— Feb 07, 2014 06:05PM Add a comment

Lisa is on page 33 of 448

On Feb 4 Betty Friedan was born in 1921 and died in 2006, and on Feb 5 Jonathan Coe found himself writing on what would have been BS Johnson's 70th birthday, about the writer's suicide. Not much about writers I know on Feb 6, this is a US-centric book...

— Feb 07, 2014 06:02PM Add a comment

Lisa is on page 33 of 448

I missed a few days: saddened to read on Jan 29 that Edward Lear suffered from depression, wished Shirley (The Great fire Hazzard happy birthday on the 30th, and was freaked out to read that Jan 31st was the day that Joseph Goebbels discovered Hans Fallada. Mary Shelley died on Feb 1st, EM Forster broke his arm in Rom on Feb 2, Gutenberg died in 1468 on Feb 3 ...

— Feb 07, 2014 06:00PM Add a comment

Nenna is 6% done

Golly! A week and a half behind. And this is supposed to be my yearly companion.

— Feb 06, 2014 07:24AM Add a comment

Barb is on page 43 of 448

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Katherine (Katy) is on page 43 of 448

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Barb is on page 36 of 448

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Linda Gaines is on page 34 of 448

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Ilana is on page 32 of 448

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Lisa is on page 33 of 448

One of my favourite authors Ismail Kadare was born this day in 1936.

— Jan 27, 2014 10:37PM Add a comment

Lisa is on page 32 of 448

Pushkin made his own fiction come true in a duel on this day in 1837

— Jan 26, 2014 07:26PM Add a comment

Lisa is on page 31 of 448

1901 Beatrix Potter couldn't find a publisher, so she printed one private copy of The Tale of Peter Rabbit herself. I wonder what that's worth today?

— Jan 25, 2014 11:26PM Add a comment

Lisa is on page 30 of 448

Happy birthday Virginia Woolf! But oh dear, in 1851 The Spectator said of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 'like all bad poets, she never knows when she's said enough'.

— Jan 24, 2014 07:05PM Add a comment

Ilana is on page 26 of 448

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Lisa is on page 29 of 448

Edith Wharton's birthday! And Ezra Pound started editing The Waste Land.

— Jan 24, 2014 03:24AM Add a comment

Lisa is on page 28 of 448

Stendhal was born today: I thought his red and Black was splendid! The TLD bagged Doctorow's Ragtime today, and the Spectator was in deep denial over Tess of the D'Urbervilles.

— Jan 23, 2014 01:25AM Add a comment

Lisa is on page 27 of 448

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Barb is on page 25 of 448

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Lisa is on page 26 of 448

I'll be reading this all year: a page a day...

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