BOOK CLUB CLASSICS!

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Recently a friend recommended a site that I would love to share!  For those of you who enjoy travelling or who enjoy my weekly 50 States 50 Books series, you may enjoy Bibliotravel – a site that hooks up readers and places.  You simply put the name of a city in the search [...]

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Thank you again to Omnivoracious for choosing a state I was struggling with…  Here are their picks for Rhode Island:

H.P. Lovecraft: Tales by H.P. Lovecraft: The authoritative Library of America edition. I challenge you to name a book with better Statistically Improbably Phrases than this one: “curvilinear hieroglyphs, greenish soapstones, tarry stickiness, [...]

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After you explore Omnivoracious’s selections for New York, you’ll understand why I was dragging me feet on choosing just one…  Here is their take on this exciting state:
I tried to take a cue from New York magazine’s 40th anniversary canon: the book had to be “unmistakably New Yorky.” They had the benefit [...]

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I was so happy to see that Melanie Jones’s next choice is a state I have yet to cover: Oregon!
And the author she chose is the namesake of my brother’s dog, Kesey…  Enjoy!
Melanie Jones continues her series The Fifty States of Literature with Oregon and Ken Kesey’s classic novel Sometimes a Great [...]

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Well, with Delaware a bit in the spotlight due to “the other” VP candidate, I thought I would highlight the literary history of this state and have been stumped!  But when I recently read the Omnivoracious post on Delaware, I realized I was not alone: 
What comes to mind when you think of when [...]