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Category Archives: Random Info
Happy Birthday Ernest Hemingway!
Born on July 21, 1899, Ernest Hemingway was an American writer and Journalist. He won the Nobel Prize in literature in 1954 and the Pulitzer Prize (in 1953) for his short novel The Old Man and the Sea. He was … Continue reading
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For Fun: What Reader Species Are You?
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Readers around the World:
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100 Best First Lines from Novels:
1. Call me Ishmael. —Herman Melville, Moby-Dick (1851) 2. It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. —Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice(1813) 3. A screaming comes across the … Continue reading
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List of Book Review Sites on the Web:
Are you looking for recommendations for summer reading? Here are a few sites dedicated to book reviews yet all have their own unique twist. Check them out – maybe you’ll find your next favorite book. All Readers AllReaders classifies books … Continue reading
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Infographic: Read Aloud To A Child
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World’s Most Beautiful Libraries
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Random trivia about books and authors
The longest sentence in the book “Les Miserables” by Victor Hugo is 823 words long. If you were to place all of the shelves in the New York Public Library side by side, they would be eighty miles long. All … Continue reading
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Louis T. Graves Memorial Public Library 