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Mar.05.2013
You’ve probably read a few. They’re common on Amazon and other consumer book review sites. You’ll sometimes read them in respected print publications, too. They pick at elements of plot, character, setting, and pacing with razor-sharp talons. They shred themes and pummel prose. They may even...
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Mar.04.2013
A generation ago my daughters read all the 8 Ramona books by Beverly Cleary in English and loved them. Now I read Ramona Quimby, Age 8 (in Hebrew) with a young friend and she loves it just the same.
The Ramona series has been around since the 1950s but it is easy to...
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Feb.20.2013
Absolutely Done - a slam bang adventure spiced with laughs
Absolutely Done
By Dominae Primus
Copyright 2010
978-967-5785-01-6
ASIN: B004X29URA
Absolutely Done is an adventure, action comedy that is as full of slam bang action as it is in terms of witty comic exchanges,...
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Feb.19.2013
There's a certain aroma or, more properly, miasma surroundimg most regional writing, a stink of amateurism that is immediately apparent when you open a volume of the stuff; what comes wafting out is so unpleasant, it can induce gagging.
The province I call home features a particularly noxious...
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Feb.18.2013
I have been teaching EFl to college age students in Israel since 1995. In my country children study English for about 8 years and have a matriculation examination at the end of 12th grade. Yet many students still have problems reading and comprehending even a simple text. Often when I ask my...
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Feb.08.2013
At the very young age of not-quite-three, my son, of his own free will, is reading—albeit only four words: go, truck, woof, and zoom—but still. He’s reading.
It’s amazing to watch it all come together for him. For the past year, he’s been reciting his favorite books—all rhythmic delights—...
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Jan.31.2013
Millie looked at the screen in the front of her couch and it read, “When ready to return home, please press the red button.”
She asked, “Is everyone ready to go home?”
Tired little voices from the couches behind her agreed that they were ready to go home. Jasmine said, “I just wish that it wasn’t...
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Jan.31.2013
Bird of Paradise Lost Book tour - - with dates and specific hours and more events to be filled in ...by Andrew Lam on Sunday, December 30, 2012 at 11:11am · PublicFriendsFriends except AcquaintancesOnly MeCustomClose FriendsLowell HighSee all lists...New America...
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Jan.27.2013
Take a look at any bulletin board and you’ll most likely see that it is completely covered. I mean every shred of geography on the cork covered square is plastered with notices. Some papers are even obscured by another flier, making it hard to tell what is being publicized. Some...
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Jan.25.2013
It is that very particular exhilarating feeling, when you find a book so scrumptious and exotic you open it with a whisper and close it with a sigh. You've found this book through no one's urging or description or advertising. You wandered alone, woozy in towering aisles with books stacked...
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