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	<title>The Book's The Thing</title>
	<link>http://blogs.nsls.info/thebook</link>
	<description>Thoughts on books and the bookish life from an ardent bibliophile and former bookseller. The author, Lisa Guidarini, is the adult program coordinator for the Algonquin Area Public Library and reviews books for a variety of publishing house and periodicals. Lisa is a member of the National Book Critics Circle.</description>
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		<title>Up and coming authors.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From Telegraph.co.uk:

Top new novelists for 2010
We all have our favourite authors, but how do you spot a rising star, that new voice in literature that will really make an impression? Lucinda Everett makes it a little easier as we go into 2010, and has picked out some names that won’t be familiar… yet. Here are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.nsls.info/thebook/2010/02/up-and-coming-authors/</link>
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		<title>Pessimism on the state of the printed book</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From Huffington Post:
&#8221; Anyone who believes this new technology is going away is dreaming. Anyone who believes the print publishing industry has a chance to survive in its present form is dreaming. It&#8217;s now possible for any small publisher to have free and almost immediate access to the largest bookstore in the world &#8212; Amazon. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.nsls.info/thebook/2010/02/pessimism-on-the-state-of-the-printed-book/</link>
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		<title>A Booker Prize 40 Years in the Making.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From the You Must Be Kidding Me file:
Lost Man Booker Prize longlist to award best omitted novel of 1970
Any of 22 authors, including Iris Murdoch and Joe Orton, could be awarded the coveted Lost Man Booker prize for novels that missed out due to rule changes in 1971
by Sam Jones, from The Guardian.co.uk
&#8221; The few [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.nsls.info/thebook/2010/02/a-booker-prize-40-years-in-the-making/</link>
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		<title>Amazon and MacMillan on the school playground</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Get out of my sandbox! No, YOU get out of MY sandbox!
Read more in the seemingly endless struggle between Amazon and big publishers (in this case MacMillan) from The New York Times:
&#8221; After a weekend of brinksmanship, Amazon.com on Sunday surrendered to a publisher and agreed to raise prices on some electronic books.






Amazon shocked the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.nsls.info/thebook/2010/02/amazon-and-macmillan-on-the-school-playground/</link>
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		<title>Crazy much?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Shiny Gadget, Icky Name: IPad Jokes Fly On Web
Apple&#8217;s Latest Invention Is Called A WHAT? Internet Wiseacres Mock The New IPad&#8217;s Name
Read this link for one of the most outrageous cases of political correctness I&#8217;ve ever heard.
I can&#8217;t quote the article here because it&#8217;s from the AP, and they won&#8217;t allow that&#8230; Another annoyance.
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		<link>http://blogs.nsls.info/thebook/2010/01/crazy-much/</link>
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		<title>Odd News Stories a Specialty</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From Merinews.com:
Holiday Inn offers human bed warmers
&#8221; Oddities around the world are limitless. Enjoy the fun as it unfolds, this time via bed spreads and innovative human bed-warming service. Holiday Inn, an international hotel chain is offering on a trial basis human bed-warming service. &#8221;
Read more (I promise, part of this is book-related):
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		<link>http://blogs.nsls.info/thebook/2010/01/odd-news-stories-a-specialty/</link>
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		<title>Ah, the reference desk.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Patrons. I love them. Most of them are wonderful people. The vast majority are, actually.
But the next person who happens to come up to the desk when I&#8217;m either preparing notes for a book group (and have the book open next to me), or am looking through a catalog of new books from a specific publisher, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.nsls.info/thebook/2010/01/ah-the-reference-desk/</link>
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		<title>From Salon.com</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Publisher whitens another heroine of color 
Twice in one year, Bloomsbury has put a white model on the cover of a book about a dark-skinned girl
By Kate Harding
Detail from cover of &#8220;Magic Under Glass&#8221;Last summer, the publishing house Bloomsbury USA drew substantial criticism for featuring a white girl with long, straight hair on the cover [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.nsls.info/thebook/2010/01/from-salon-com/</link>
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		<title>Aid to Haiti</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Donate Now to Help CARE Deliver Emergency Aid to Haiti Following Major Earthquake
CARE is deploying additional emergency team members to the devastated city of Port-au-Prince in Haiti, where the worst earthquake in 200 years destroyed houses and left thousands homeless. While the exact death toll from the 7.0-magnitude quake is not yet known, it is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.nsls.info/thebook/2010/01/aid-to-haiti/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;B&#8221; book finished, &#8220;C&#8221; in progress</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Geraldine Brooks&#8217; People of the Book never did improve for me. Quite the opposite. I lost all patience with it, skimming through to the end, thoroughly sick and tired of the whole thing.
And the ending? A child could have seen it coming a mile away. Quite honestly, I found it awful. The only redeeming virtue [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.nsls.info/thebook/2010/01/b-book-finished-c-in-progress/</link>
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