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I’ve decided I really need to diversify the bookselling links on the blog, so I’m planning to start shifting book links to Powell’s. This means many existing book posts will show up in RSS feeds as new or edited, so if you read my RSS, just plan to bypass things for the next few days.
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Found this interesting site via Beatrice.com: Sci-Fi Lists - Top Science Fiction Books and Films.

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Khaled Hosseini. We had a very stimulating conversation last night at our new reading group. I had looked for discussion guides, and Penguin has one I found sadly lackluster. Not much about the major theme we concentrated on, sin and redemption. Today I did a little more searching and found a discussion guide that focuses [...]

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WhooHoo! Check this out at Slate: A Whitewashed Earthsea - How the Sci Fi Channel wrecked my books. By Ursula K. Le Guin.
Discovered via Bookslut.

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Or is that tragedy? As a friend of mine put it, everything is recognizable except the plot.
And the script is bad.
And most of the acting is bad.
And most of the special effects are cheesy.
Read the books.

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Marilynne Robinson. Spectacular. A deeply moving portrait of a father’s love, a story of sin and redemption. Read it.

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The Rev. Irene Elizabeth Stroud has been found guilty in a United Methodist Church trial of being openly lesbian. Google News Search: stroud methodist .

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Kage Baker. Only one of the stories is a company story, and then you only know that if you’re already in the know. Several are apparently set in the world of The Anvil of the World, which I haven’t yet read. On the whole, a light read, with several of the stories seeming almost like [...]

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Gene Wolfe. It continues the rich, multi-layered story begun in The Knight. But the closer I got to the end, the more loose ends there seemed to be, and the less I understood. As with many other books, I wonder what kind of editing a known author receives these days.

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The Freedom to Marry Coalition has sent out a notice that CBS and NBC have rejected this ad: God is Still Speaking - The United Church of Christ. It’s such a subtle ad (about including gays) that any media calling it sensitive material is totally outrageous.
CBS explained its decision in part as follows “…and [...]

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