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A Bibliophile’s Miscellany: The Lost Art of Letter Writing

When’s the last time you put pen to paper and wrote a letter? Not an e-mail, not a quickly jotted memo, but an actual hand-written letter, with the date at the top, a more or less formal term of address (you can never go wrong ...
 
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Best Titles for Book Reading Clubs

Book clubs are great, but sometimes agreeing on titles can be a challenge. You want to choose a title that’s not too new or else not everyone can get a copy or it’ll be the most expensive hardback in the bookstore. ...
 
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Summer Reading Special: A Bibliophile’s Miscellany of France

July is the month when many countries celebrate their national day: it was Canada Day on the 1st, America’s birthday (of course) on the 4th, but also Algeria’s and Venezuela’s Independence Day celebrations on the 5th, Malawi’s ...

 
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Summer Reading: Ten Children’s Titles to Steal from Your Kids

In book-crazy families, sharing summer reading material is nothing new. Parents enjoy kids’ books alongside their children during bedtime reading; high school students filch J.D. Salinger from their parents’ collections; mother...
 
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A Bibliophile’s Miscellany: Books on the Financial Crisis

I don’t claim to understand very much about the economics or history of the downturn that began around 2008. What little I do know I largely attribute to the books I’ve read about it, both fiction and nonfiction. Many authors h...
 
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Movie to Book

Read from Movie to Book: Movies that you didn’t know were books

Many movies were made from books that went under the radar. Just because you’ve seen the movie first, doesn’t mean you can’t go from movie to book. Here’s a list of movies that were either inspired by or...

 
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Credit: Wizan Zaini via Creative Commons
Credit: Wizan Zaini via Creative Commons

Great Food Writing: A Culinary and Cultural Adventure

When Michael Moss’s book Salt Sugar Fat was recently excerpted in the New York Times magazine, the cover was just a picture of a Dorito with an enticing pull quote: “I feel so sorry for the public.” I, for one, was hooked, and ...
 
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Recent Grad Job Advice: The Best Career Books

There are some excellent non-fiction books out there to help you create the perfect resume, ace an interview, and put your best foot forward. Some are classics, tried and true, while others focus on the edgiest trends for 21st ...
 
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A giant rainbow flag at the 2011 Toulouse LGBT Pride march, by Léna (Own work) [CC-BY-SA-3.0] via Wikimedia Commons.
A giant rainbow flag at the 2011 Toulouse LGBT Pride march, by Léna (Own work) [CC-BY-SA-3.0] via Wikimedia Commons.

A Bibliophile’s Miscellany: Gender Pioneers

This June marks LGBT Pride Month 2013, the fifth time it has been officially declared so by a U.S. president. June was chosen for this commemorative month to remember the Stonewall riots in New York City in June 1969, which pav...

 
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Books Like Unwind
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Books Like Unwind

More Great Books like Unwind: A Book List

Books like Unwind Interested in finding some more books like Unwind by Neal Shusterman? Welcome to the list that will get you going in the right direction. Unwind is difficult to compare to other books, but has elements of many...