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The Brief History of the Dead, by Kevin Brockmeier 5 Mar 2010

Books on Books

How to Read Slowly by James W. Sire 23 Nov 2007
The City of Words by Alberto Manguel 5 Feb 2008
The Man Who Forgot How To Read by Howard Engel 9 Aug 2009

Libraries

Balanced Libraries by Walt Crawford 18 Sep 2007
Library Juice Concentrate by Rory Litwin 18 Dec 2008
Library: An Unquiet History by Matthew Battles 14 Jan 2010
Questioning Library Neutrality edited by Alison Lewis 1 Jul 2008
Revolting Librarians by West and Katz 12 May 2008
Revolting Librarians Redux edited by Roberto & West 11 Jun 2008
The Case for Books by Robert Darnton – The Interplay of Private and Public Interests in Libraries 2 Mar 2010

Metaphysics

Becoming Enlightened by the Dalai Lama 22 Feb 2010
Buddhism Without Beliefs by Stephen Batchelor 27 Jul 2008
Dharma Punx by Noah Levine – How Do You Reconcile Punk with Buddhism? 28 May 2009
Shambhala by Chögyam Trungpa – Inner Homesteading 21 Jun 2009
Sit Down and Shut Up by Brad Warner – My Irrational Fear of Boredom 10 Feb 2008

Scratch

“If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe” – Carl Sagan

Free Radical: A Reconsideration of the Good Death of Scott Nearing, by Ellen LaConte 6 Feb 2009
Living the Good Life by Helen and Scott Nearing 2 Sep 2008
The 100-Mile Diet: A Year of Local Eating, by Alisa Smith & J.B. MacKinnon 12 Dec 2007
World Made by Hand by James Howard Kunstler – Suppose the Oil Ran Out 15 May 2008

Technology

Hackers & Painters by Paul Graham 17 Jul 2009
Information Ecologies by Nardi and O’Day 27 Oct 2009
 

Fiction

“Never apologize for your reading tastes” – Rosenberg’s First Law of Reading

Conceit by Mary Novik 17 Nov 2007
Home Schooling by Carol Windley 25 Sep 2007
Late Nights on Air by Elizabeth Hay 1 Sep 2008
Little Brother by Cory Doctorow – Suppose I Purchased Tackle at a Gun Shop then an Airline Ticket? Would I Get a ‘Call’? A Visit? 7 Jun 2009
Shelf Monkey by Corey Redekop – “It is a pleasure to burn” 24 Feb 2008
Short Stories: The Awkward Little Brother of Novels 18 Oct 2007
So Dark the Night by Cliff J. Burns 4 May 2008
Tales From the Farm by Jeff Lemire – Imagine Calvin without Hobbes 19 Jun 2009
The Book of Flying by Keith Miller 15 Sep 2008
The Book on Fire by Keith Miller 12 Dec 2009
The Brief History of the Dead, by Kevin Brockmeier 5 Mar 2010
The Lost Highway by David Adams Richards 7 Sep 2009
The Memory of Running by Ron McLarty 4 Oct 2007
The Republic of Nothing by Lesley Choyce 7 Sep 2007
The Runes of the Earth, by Stephen Donaldson – Despair is a Persistent Foe 12 Jan 2008
We Three Dragons by Greenwood, Ward & Grubb 18 Dec 2007
When We Were Young: Stories Selected by Stuart McLean 26 Nov 2008
Yellowknife by Steve Zipp 15 Apr 2009

Non-Fiction

“Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything” – Wyatt Earp

Safe Haven by Larry Gaudet 30 Oct 2008
Zen and Now by Mark Richardson 17 Jan 2009