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How Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey Wrote Her Father's 'Elegy'

How Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey Wrote Her Father's 'Elegy' | Read Read Read | Scoop.it
The story behind the Pulitzer-winner's bittersweet, conflicted poem...
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Welcome to BlackWords: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Writers and Storytellers

Welcome to BlackWords: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Writers and Storytellers | Read Read Read | Scoop.it
scope of Australian aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander coverage
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James Patterson Thinks That Books are Precious Snowflakes That Need to be Rescued From Oblivion - The Digital Reader

James Patterson Thinks That Books are Precious Snowflakes That Need to be Rescued From Oblivion - The Digital Reader | Read Read Read | Scoop.it

James Patterson - v - the ebook

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In a future with one last bookstore, a boy falls in love with reading

In a future with one last bookstore, a boy falls in love with reading | Read Read Read | Scoop.it
In a future not too far off from our own, books are a distant memory and even e-readers have fallen out of vogue.
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Read Aloud - Importance of Reading Aloud

Read Aloud - Importance of Reading Aloud | Read Read Read | Scoop.it
Elizabeth Hutchinson's curator insight, April 18, 2:44 AM
Nice!
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Get involoved in the 15 minute movement.

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Why Are Dogs Popular in Books, and Cats on the Internet?

Why Are Dogs Popular in Books, and Cats on the Internet? | Read Read Read | Scoop.it
Reader, if you and I can agree on anything, it's that the Internet is made of cats. But we may differ on the follow-up: What else could it be made of? When cats took over on our screens and in our minds, whose regime, exactly, did they replace?
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Cats versus Dogs.  A perennial hot topic.  Enjoy both I say!

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Graphic Novels: The Tools of the Trade | Inside A Dog

Graphic Novels: The Tools of the Trade | Inside A Dog | Read Read Read | Scoop.it
A site for young people about the books they like to read. Discover the latest youth literature news, find YA books for teenagers (reviewed by teens), join a book club and discuss your favourite reads, and enter our monthly competitions.
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How To Beat Up Anything: The 10 Worst First Lines from Novels

How To Beat Up Anything: The 10 Worst First Lines from Novels | Read Read Read | Scoop.it
Inspired by this great post 100 Best First Lines from Novels I decided to come up with my own list of the the ten worst first lines from novels. Here they are: 1) No, he never does manage to win...
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Read at your peril!

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THE TOP BOOK CLUB PICKS OF THE MONTH

THE TOP BOOK CLUB PICKS OF THE MONTH | Read Read Read | Scoop.it
MEREDITH JAFFE shares a collection of books that push boundaries and reveals the top book club picks in March. 80,000 book club readers can't be wrong!
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Book club top picks from The Hoopla

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HarperCollins and Hachette Disband Agency Model for the UK | Good E-Reader - eBooks, Publishing and Comic News

HarperCollins and Hachette Disband Agency Model for the UK | Good E-Reader - eBooks, Publishing and Comic News | Read Read Read | Scoop.it
HarperCollins and Hachette are the first major publishers to absolve the agency pricing model for the UK version of Amazon. The two literary giants have

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Traditional Publishing says good-bye to the agency model of pricing in the UK.

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Books That Made Us Cry - GalleyCat

Books That Made Us Cry - GalleyCat | Read Read Read | Scoop.it
Books That Made Us Cry
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Literature has the power to move mountains.

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US Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey hosts reading to celebrate authors from the South in DC

WASHINGTON — U.S. Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey is hosting a reading at the Library of Congress to celebrate writing from the South.
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My personal ebook journey and the EBSCO eBook Academic Collection — @joycevalenza NeverEndingSearch

My personal ebook journey and the EBSCO eBook Academic Collection — @joycevalenza NeverEndingSearch | Read Read Read | Scoop.it
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Teacher Librariàns:  you must deal with ebooks.

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12 Famous Authors' Very First Author Photos

12 Famous Authors' Very First Author Photos | Read Read Read | Scoop.it
We scoured the web to pull together a few surprising, intense, and charmingly youthful author photos from some of our very favorite authors' first works, from Truman Capote to Stephen King.

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Authors, pop culture, & libraries, oh my!

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Books that changed me: Jemma Birrell

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Artistic director of the Sydney Writers' Festival, Jemma Birrell, talks about her favourite books.
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Letters of Note: Advice from Harper Lee

Letters of Note: Advice from Harper Lee | Read Read Read | Scoop.it
Fascinating letters. Interesting correspondence.
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To Kill a Mockingbird is a classic read.

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Terry Pratchett, science and story telling

Terry Pratchett, science and story telling | Read Read Read | Scoop.it
The best of all possible worlds.
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Neil Gaiman urges publishers to 'make mistakes' in uncertain new era

Neil Gaiman urges publishers to 'make mistakes' in uncertain new era | Read Read Read | Scoop.it
Author's speech to London Book Fair calls for an experimental approach to a changing 'digital frontier'
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The Gold-Rimmed Spectacles by Giorgio Bassani – review

The Gold-Rimmed Spectacles by Giorgio Bassani – review | Read Read Read | Scoop.it
Bassani's elegiac 1958 novella about the trials of a gay doctor during Italy's slide into fascism has lost none of its power, writes Ben Hutchinson
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The Most Ridiculous Claims Used to Challenge Classic Novels

The Most Ridiculous Claims Used to Challenge Classic Novels | Read Read Read | Scoop.it
The American Library Association has released its study of the most frequently challenged books of 2012, a list that includes classics and YA touchstones alike. But books have been challenged, bann...
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War of the worlds: who owns the political soul of science fiction?

War of the worlds: who owns the political soul of science fiction? | Read Read Read | Scoop.it
In the sci-fi genre, two diametrically opposed ideologies are battling it out as leftwing writers embrace otherness, while the rightwingers look up to authority, writes Adam Roberts
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A Girl You Should Date

A Girl You Should Date | Read Read Read | Scoop.it
Date a girl who reads. Date a girl who spends her money on books instead of clothes. She has problems with closet space because she has too many books. Date a girl who has a list of books she wants...
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Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, novelist and Oscar-winning screenwriter, dies at 85 - The Times of India

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, novelist and Oscar-winning screenwriter, dies at 85 - The Times of India | Read Read Read | Scoop.it
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, the German-born screenwriter and novelist, died on Wednesday at her home in Manhattan. She was 85.
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Sic transit gloria mundi

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21 BOOKS TO CHANGE YOUR LIFE

21 BOOKS TO CHANGE YOUR LIFE | Read Read Read | Scoop.it
If you had to choose 21 books to give to a young man or woman on their 21st Birthday, which ones would you choose? Throw your suggestions into our open forum.
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Read Beyond the Lines: Transmedia has changed the very notion of books and reading - The Digital Shift

Read Beyond the Lines: Transmedia has changed the very notion of books and reading - The Digital Shift | Read Read Read | Scoop.it
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Why ebooks are a different genre from print

Why ebooks are a different genre from print | Read Read Read | Scoop.it
Stuart Kelly: The differences in format are beginning to change the nature of what we're reading, and how we do it
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