Category Archives: Fun

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Confessions of a negligent hop farmer

The last book I bought on Biblio.com was The Homebrewer’s Garden. This time of year I love nothing better than watching hops grow. I’m convinced that if I had the patience or the time I could actually see the vine moving during peak growth. A

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Summer Reading

Publishers are convinced that readers want unsubstantial books for summer reading, but I’m not sure where that comes from. Sure, winter’s cloistered depths are a great time to read Kafka and Tolstoy, huddled under heavy blankets locked in cold rooms inside, but who says that

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Books on my nightstand…

The following books are on my nightstand, all currently being read. What can I say? I like to mix things up, depending on my mood: A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh Details of a Sunset and Other Stories by

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Who writes this stuff?

Yesterday our e-mail queues were assaulted by several e-mails which we believe to be pranks. Please see a sampling below and let us know if you have any clues about the perpetrator… “i think you guys should have a mascot or something: BiblioMan. and he