Category Archives: books
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Zippy, Joyce, and Margaret
Leave a commentFebruary 21, 2019 by libroshombre
LIBRARIAN COLUMN Contact Greg Hill, 479-4344 January 31, 2019 A recent Zippy the Pinhead comic strip reminded me of how …
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Pops, Pies, and Humor
Leave a commentOctober 19, 2018 by libroshombre
Reading and ice cream are delightful summer pursuits, although only the former’s good for you. Summer reading’s typically light and …
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Book Buying, Book Reading, and Book Loving
Leave a commentOctober 17, 2018 by libroshombre
Upon my arrival in Fairbanks in 1990, former State Senator Charlie Parr recommended I read “Generations: The History of America’s …
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Nero, Thi, and Horatio
Leave a commentSeptember 25, 2018 by libroshombre
It’s true that lately I go to bed nightly with a corpulent, orchid-loving genius: Nero Wolfe, the best literary …
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Bibliothecarial Ignorance and School Boards
Leave a commentJanuary 29, 2018 by libroshombre
Adolph Hitler’s better known than Dr. Dee, Queen Elizabeth I’s one-man think tank, but both were involved in the …
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Books, Books, More Books!
Leave a commentOctober 14, 2017 by libroshombre
Long ago I took up the banner of bibliophile Winston Churchill: “If you cannot read all your books, at …
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Explicating Cussing and Cussing Book Tieves
Leave a commentAugust 1, 2017 by libroshombre
“Cussin’” arose the other day while discussing the differences between the terms “expletive” and explicative,” and this triggered a …
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