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Library Week, 2008
State of America’s Libraries 2008 The ALA has published the 2008 State of America’s Libraries report. Here are their key findings: Americans check out over 2 billion items annually from public l… more »
Half Hollow Hills Community Library
Steady start for RexCorp
David Winzelberg wrote 2 days ago: RexCorp Realty has inked 86,215 square feet in new, renewed or expanded leases over the first quarte … more »
Cablevision's Dolans buy Newsday
wantaghnews wrote 5 days ago: Cablevision and the Tribune Company both announce that Long Island’s largest daily newspaper, … more »
Les Enfants terribles / The Strange Ones (1950)
magnolia12883 wrote 1 week ago: Cast & Credits Nicole Stéphane … Elisabeth Edouard Dermithe … … more »
How to Make Tappa
ferdinando wrote 1 week ago: Elsewhere in Typee, Melville describes the process used to make tappa, a cloth worn by the natives o … more »
The Whale Collection
willhansen2 wrote 1 week ago: Just finished: The Wet Collection. Do yourself a favor and find this book. Many of us are brainwash … more »
Sunquam Graduation
edruda wrote 1 week ago: Sunquam Graduation - do you know anyone here? … more »
Sperm Tooth Earings With Leaves
ferdinando wrote 1 week ago: From a larger description of Mehevi’s attire in Melville’s Typee (chapter 11): Around hi … more »
Le Samouraï / The Godson (1967)
magnolia12883 wrote 2 weeks ago: Cast & Credits Alain Delon … Jef Costello François Périer … The … more »
Le Doulos / Doulos: The Finger Man (1962)
magnolia12883 wrote 2 weeks ago: Cast & Credits Jean-Paul Belmondo … Silien Serge Reggiani … Mauri … more »
Le Cercle rouge / The Red Circle (1970)
magnolia12883 wrote 2 weeks ago: Cast & Credits Alain Delon … Corey Bourvil … Le Commissaire Matte … more »
Treasure Island, Buried
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Peter Kerry Powers wrote 3 weeks ago: As some may remember from the distant past of this blog, I set out to actually read a whole e-book f … more »
M'imbarco
natamuerta wrote 3 weeks ago: “Ogni volta che mi ritrovo sulla bocca una smorfia amara; ogni volta che nell’anima ho u … more »
Library Week, 2008
edruda wrote 1 month ago: State of America’s Libraries 2008 The ALA has published the 2008 State of America’s Libraries re … more »
Le Circle Rouge (1970)
pupson13 wrote 1 month ago: Director: Jean-Pierre Meville Starring: Alain Delon, Bourvil, Yves Montand Another great French j … more »
Quote of the Day: Frere Jacques
dcairns wrote 1 month ago: “Like Moliere, Jacques Becker died on a strange and terrible battlefield: that of artisitic c … more »
Mysteries of the Mercantile
Ed Scripsi wrote 1 month ago: Plantain bark, tortoise shells, sperm oil, and Manilla hats? What exactly is this shipping manifes … more »
Quote of the Day: shades of memory
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dcairns wrote 1 month ago: Jean-Pierre Melville: ‘The war period was awful, horrible and … marvellous!’ Rui … more »
Moby Dick: the White Whale (finally) gets a scene
fictionista wrote 1 month ago: “Yet calm, enticing calm, oh, whale! thou glidest on, to all who for the first time eye thee … more »
Moby Dick: Ship Ahoy! Hast thou seen the White Whale?
fictionista wrote 1 month ago: Ahab won’t talk to anyone who hasn’t. In the sixty-odd chapters I read today, The Pequod … more »
