tor.com - 12/25/2008
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I own three illustrated copies of The Night Before Christmas , one pop-up, one with windows and one with little tags you pull to get special effects, like St Nicholas’s belly shaking like a bowl full of jelly. My son Sasha is now eighteen, but we’ve had these books since he was very young. The ...
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December 26, 2008 Links and Plugs
Bibliophile Stalker —
Hope everyone had fun during the holidays! Lemony Snicket on Killer Clowns and Eggnog. SF Signal's The Best Genre Related Books/Films/Shows/Games Consumed In 2008 (Part III). Andrew Wheeler on Where to Start with Michael Moorcock. Janet Reid on May You Live in Interesting Times. The New York Times on Turning Page, E-Books Start to Take Hold. For the Weird people: 8 Octopus Facts. More Mental Floss fun: 7 of Literature’s Most Desirable Leading Men. Jo Walton on Christmas Books.Check out some Paul Di ...
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Bluejo's Journal —
Romantic Times review of Half a Crown. Recent Posts on Tor.com Spin, Why I re-read what I do, Deerskin, My perfect anthology, The Hero and the Crown, The Blue Sword, The Explosionist, Regenesis, Obit of Donald Westlake, The Sharing Knife Books, Christmas Books, How to talk to writers, Cyteen.
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