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Author Archives: Brian D. Butler
Travel Lit Bestseller List
The Indie Travel Literature Bestseller List For the eight-week period ending July 27, 2010, and based on sales at independent bookstores nationwide. 1. A Walk in the Woods Bill Bryson, Broadway, $15.99, 9780767902526 2. Every Day in Tuscany Frances … Continue reading
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Do You Wordle ?
Thanks to Jonathan Feinberg: Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, … Continue reading
It’s Time For The Great British Beer Festival
Britain’s biggest beer festival The Great British Beer Festival kicks off today and stretches across a good part of the week till August 7th at the Earl’s Court Exhibition Centre. Hosted by the Campaign for Real Ale, the event will … Continue reading
Your Summer Reading List…Top Ten
A totally unscientific reader poll has produced the following Top Ten Summer Reading List : The Magicians — Lev Grossman The Girl Who Played With Fire — Stieg Larsson Her Fearful Symetry — Audrey Niffennegger The Strain — Guillermo del … Continue reading
The Philosophy of Timing &…
The following post is by Meg Pier and is from her site View From The Pier. Meg is an award-winning travel writer, photographer, regular contributor to The Boston Globe travel section, and the author of A Vision for Today. The … Continue reading
Dublin Has The Write Stuff
This week Dublin has become only the fourth city to be designated an “UNESCO City of Literature”. Joining Edinburgh, Melbourne and Iowa City, Dublin now shares the coveted distinction and honor. Mary Hanafin, Ireland’s Minister of Tourism, said that the … Continue reading
Have Travel Dreams ?
Post from Michaela Potter at briefcasetobackpack.com “Meet, Plan, Go!” A Nationwide Event to Help People Realize Their Travel Dreams On September 14, 2010, Briefcase to Backpack and Three Month Visa will be hosting Meet, Plan, Go! a free, nationwide event … Continue reading
Notable Dead Summer Exhumation Tour
In the latest stop of the Notable Dead Summer Exhumation Tour 2010, Romanian scientists disinterred the remains of former dictator Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife, Elena, from a military cemetery in Bucharest to take DNA samples and verify their identities. The … Continue reading
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Tagged Bucharest, Caracas, Iceland, Romania, Venezuela
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What’s on Your Summer Reading List ?
Summer vacation time is here again, and this year, as very other year the chattering classes and book reviewers have told us what they expect you to pack for the beaches and the mountains. This year on the fiction front, … Continue reading
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Library Redux
A few European library favorites from our readers.
