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An online list I subscribe to had a request for advice/stories about starting a reading group. Here’s the quick answer I gave:
I’ve participated in three startups. I’ll just describe each one briefly. The only universal is that none of them have used a discussion leader.
First group (and closest to my heart): Four friends, two of [...]

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And since politics matters to me, I didn’t have any intention of vacationing in Colorado anyway. But this story at DenverPost.com - LOCAL NEWS shows that some people need a wakeup call.
A town trustee’s refusal to say the Pledge of Allegiance before board meetings has led to Tuesday’s recall election and hard feelings among some [...]

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Bob has discovered Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Darkover novels, and I started (re)reading along. I skipped the earliest (according to internal Darkover chronology) and have devoured these:
The Shattered ChainThendara HouseRediscovery (with Mercedes Lackey)The Spell Sword
Yum. Tasty.

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Just found the Invisible Library via an online book group that’s grown out of Copyediting-L.

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Martin at Quaker Ranter is feeling the burden of the work: Youth Ministry, Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Style:
So why not just admit that the yearly meeting is irrelevant to younger Friends? Why not turn our meetinghouses into retirement homes?
PS: How I wish I weren’t so cynical about the yearly meeting.

I left an equally heartfelt, but [...]

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Found this fascinating article at the Chronicle of Higher Education: The Chronicle: 3/11/2005: From Islam, Pluralist Democracies Will Surely Grow.
From the very moment that God spoke the first word of Revelation to Muhammad — "Recite!" — the story of Islam has been in a constant state of evolution as it responds to the social, cultural, [...]

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Quilts and Quiltmaking in America, 1978 - 1996 looks like a great site. It’s part of the Library of Congress website. (via Librarians’ Guide to the Internet)

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Andre Norton has died today. (via Waterboro Library Blog)

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I went back to the New England Flower Show this year. It seemed slightly better than previous shows, but that may have just been the winter fatigue clouding my judgment. One of the parts I liked best was this set of sculptures.
Here’s one side of Noah’s Ark and a detail:

Another was called Adam and Eve:
And [...]

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Thanks to The Revealer for this link: StopLandmines.org.
The video ad (which The Revealer said was rejected for US television) is strong medicine.

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