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Focus on Happiness in 2013!

I’m not generally a “self-help” reader, but was impressed with this project! Titled: The Happiness Project: Or Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean my Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun

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A Great Adventure Read for a Cold Day

What better pastime is there, on a cold and snowy day, then curling up with a great book? One of my recent favorites was Once Upon a River by Bonnie Jo Campbell. This is a perfect winter-day book, in …

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12 for the End

So, if you haven’t heard (and if you haven’t, it’s probably a moot point to fill you in now), tomorrow is the end of the world, or at least the end of civilization as we know it — apocalypse, …

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All Roads Lead to Austen

Because I am a book nerd and cannot simply read a book like a normal person, as I was enjoying Amy Elizabeth Smith’s book All Roads Lead to Austen, I had to take a detour into Austen herself.  (I …

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A Treat for Readers!

 

This Saturday, December 15th come to the Lincoln Park Barn between 2 p.m. and 4 p.m. where you will have a chance to meet 34 authors from Grand Junction, the Front Range and throughout Colorado. Chat with them and

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Best Books of 2012 Lists

December and January are fantastic months for readers, in that everyone produces a “Best Books” of the year list. Several great sources separate by fiction and non, or even by audience of genre. I’ve read some of the titles on …

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20 Years of Tarantino

 

 

This Christmas, writer/director Quentin Tarantino will unveil his latest flick, Django Unchained, a sure-to-be violent and stylized western, with a groovy soundtrack. 

Tarantino is also celebrating 20 years in the industry with a Blu-ray set commemorating the …

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Like funny? Try Caitlin Moran

Are you a feminist? According to one survey, only 29 per cent of American woman identify themselves as such.  Caitlin Moran wonders if the remaining 71 per cent were drunk at the time of the survey.“What do you think feminism …

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Who am I today?

Every day is completely different from the one before because this “soul” wakes up as someone new each day. Male, female, rich, poor, the only consistency is that each body is no older than the soul inhabiting it. Then one …

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