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The Top Twenty-two Requested Books in 36 Years of Bookselling in Fort Collins
Read more: The Top Twenty-two Requested Books in 36 Years of Bookselling in Fort CollinsNo one even tried to guess the books on my list for last month’s contest. I’m disappointed in you. Well, what do you think of them? How many have you read? Are any of your favorites on the list? At the bottom of this post I have listed a few more that have come to…
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Tale (Tail) of a Sale
Read more: Tale (Tail) of a SaleNina announces our February sale on all mysteries, thrillers, westerns, and romance. We need more room! All books in these CATegories will be 25%-50% off our regular discount prices. (Ok, just a few, a very few exceptions.) The percentage off will depend primarily on the age of the book and how long it has been…
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Bookdealer Musings: The Post Crypt
Read more: Bookdealer Musings: The Post CryptOnce upon a time, back in the sixties, I was a college student/hippie who volunteered in three different theatres at Wayne State University in Detroit. It was natural that I also volunteered in a coffee house that held open-mike events for poetry readings and guitar playing, etc. This particular coffee house was in the spooky…
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Comeback Cat
Read more: Comeback CatCOMEBACK CAT COMEBACK CAT Monty rolled on his back and exposed his shaved tummy to three customers last week. What’s so unusual about that? This was the final milestone in his recovery since his near-death experience this June, that’s what. As many Eclectic Reader followers know, Monty had a fundraiser for his $900 dental surgery…
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Serendipity, Again
Read more: Serendipity, AgainI was searching through my notebook of “captured quotes” when I paused at one with striking relevance for today. It was by a person with a strange name: Warsan Shire. I decided I must know who this is. And then, a world of beautiful poems and prose-poetry writing opened up before me, and I followed,…