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Week in Review: November 17-21

Posted by admin on 11.24.2008 at 10:52 am

What you missed while you were getting dominated by Ling Ling

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-We had a big week, and so did National Book Award Winner (for non-fiction) Annette Gordon-Reed (did you listen to our interview with her yet?)
-We embraced the new Google Books
-Tara described “The Obsession” of Antiquarian, Rare and Collectable books
-We polled you about comics and movies
-Destinie dabbled in DC and Delta Airlines.  Oh alliteration and Greenfest!
-Chip was flabbergasted by dating sites
-Dana interviewed Karen White, maybe she’ll win an award now(!)
-We showed you the Top 10 bestsellers of all time… in 1978.

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Week in Review: November 10-14

Posted by admin on 11.17.2008 at 11:55 am

What you missed while you were preparing to live in Atlantis…

-A podcast with National Book Award Nominee Annette Gordon Reed
-The Great American Book Drive rocked Boston (or perhaps Boston rocked the GABD?)
-Better World Books + Eagle Scout = Library
-We ascertained what is Kurt Vonnegut’s best book
-Xavier gave you the inside info on the SF Green Business Conference
-We had a full page in GOOD Magazine
-We laughed aloud reading these ten books

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Week in Review: November 3-7

Posted by admin on 11.10.2008 at 12:02 pm

What you may have missed last week, while you were running with a rabid fox

-The world lost consummate storyteller Michael Crichton
-We wanted to know what you thought was Crichton’s best work
-Geoff opened your eyes to the top ten books about Africa

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Week in Review: October 27-31

Posted by admin on 11.03.2008 at 1:05 pm

What you may have missed last week…

-We delved into the morality of new age philosophy… ok, there’s sex and drugs involved, is that better?
-We highlighted the greatest piece of British Lit of the Year
-Jack continued harping on eReaders
-We had some news for you, because we’re teasers at heart (we mean well)
-Geoff got all NaNoWriMo on you (don’t worry, it’s less messy than it sounds… actually it’s quite fun!)

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Week in Review: October 20-24

Posted by admin on 10.27.2008 at 12:56 pm

What you may have missed last week…

-We rolled out the red carpet for ambassador and representative alike
-It was all Greek to us
-We got down with the “World’s Biggest Book Drive”
-We got down again, this time with the Great American Book Drive
-Everyone loves Biblioburro! (except my boss who banned me from saying it again at work…)
-We love good Scotch, especially the Better World Books variety
-Can the movie ever live up to the book?
-Dana poured through Vince & Joy
-We listened to some economics a la Steinbeck
-We rd bks in txt, lols!
-We had our first Top Ten List.  “Best movies based on books.“

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Week in Review: October 13-17

Posted by Jack on 10.20.2008 at 11:48 am

What we learned last week:

-Dana digs The Almost Moon
-Chip likes giving out books… but doesn’t get geysers
-Xavier and David spoke at the Social Market Conference, liveblog
-Slate is talking “The Night of the Gun”
-We’re wondering, how do you feel about e-readers?
-Jack wrote for Blog Action Day
-Geoff previews a book about the 50 states
-Sales Support packs 20,000 books for Cambodia. Impact!

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Week in Review: October 6-10

Posted by admin on 10.13.2008 at 11:50 am

What we learned last week:

-Xavier, our “Man Behind the Curtain” knows about the black arts (of marketing)
-He also knows a thing or two about Green Collar jobs
-Now he also knows that he should space his posts apart more
-Mallory Meuninck is down with dragon slaying
-We have realised* a Better World Books Centre* where those spellings are appropriate
-We found out where you get your election info from
-”No sleep til Brooklyn” …Public Library as the Great American Book Drive kicks off

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Week In Review

Posted by admin on 09.08.2008 at 10:01 am

What we learned last week:

-Obama related books sell well, just not through everyone
-Some people have too much time on their hands
-BWB Alpharetta Office: Get Out of My Dreams, Get Into My Car
-Better World of Good, now selling books
-Readers are digging the First Amendment (go figure)
-Pronouns, like you, are important (see what I did there?)
-Seeing (rare books) is believing
-Stephen Colbert isn’t the only one who can make new words

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