January 23, 2010
Yesterday was one of those days when I didn’t feel like doing much. No particular reason…I just wanted to crash. Consequently, I picked up a James Patterson paperback novel, Pop Goes the Weasel, and spent part of the day in our sun room remembering Alex Cross and his morally-laced detective escapades. It’s an old one, [...]
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December 17, 2009
I read online today that the city of Laredo, Texas, population 250,000, is losing its last bookstore. In a city with one of the highest illiteracy rates in the country, it is a tragedy. Truthfully, it is a tragedy by any calculation. A city without a bookstore is unimaginable.
Granted, there are other means of securing [...]
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