Milo and the Calf

Category: #booknerdproblems

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    A man, a plan…

    Last year I found myself reading nothing but genre fiction. It was all spaceships and murders. I was putting off the heavy lifting of my other interests in favor of flying through a lot of fiction. So, being a man who likes a schedule, I set up a routine. I now rotate through my interests,…

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    Better World, Same Grumpy and Cheap Me

    I recently cashed in both a Barnes & Noble gift certificate and a recent Barnes & Noble Groupon. There was a short stack of books on the history of stage magic and memoirs of former cult members that I had wanted to get for a while, but didn’t have that burning “drive to the bookstore…

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    Kessinger and the Public Domain

    I would look like a fool (or a GOP presidential hopeful) if in the acknowledgments section of the book I am working on I thanked “the internet and the computers,” but  in some ways a thanks is in order. Much of what I discovered in my research could not have been found without online databases,…