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November 15, 2009
- "Type 'revolution' into a search engine and find a soccer team, a tutoring system, a firm that engages in mergers & acquisitions, kites, pet care products, a music venue, dancewear, a health information database, climbing gear, a restaurant...(a)nd the Communist Party, USA."- Andrew P. Mayo, "Too Busy For a Revolution" Andrew's observation best sums up the fact that any ...
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November 8, 2009
- Red Room loves bookstores, especially independents that have become beloved parts of their local communities. Publisher's Weekly asked Red Room to help celebrate the first-ever National Bookstore Day on November 7th, so we asked the community to blog on the topic "my favorite bookstore." We knew Red Roomers have spent hours browsing through bookstores in big cities and small towns, ...
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November 2, 2009
- "Double, double toil and trouble;Fire burn, and caldron bubble." –Macbeth, Act IV, Scene 1 Halloween has become many countries' most popular occasion to dress up and become, for one night, somebody else. Why do you think a pagan harvest festival turned first into a festival celebrating all Christian saints and then into an occasion to play trick or treat? Last week, Red Room asked ...
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October 25, 2009
- The Los Angeles of Raymond Chandler. The Paris of Ernest Hemingway. The Berlin of Christopher Isherwood. The San Francisco of Dashiell Hammett or Armistead Maupin. The New York of Edith Wharton or Isaac Bashevis Singer. The London of Charles Dickens or Zadie Smith. Anyone who loves writing can't help but associate great cities with the great authors who have set their books there. Last week, we ...
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October 19, 2009
- We love reading introductions to blog entries like the one Steven E. Schend wrote in response to our weekly blog topic "The Wizard of Oz": While I'm technically staying offline this month to get back on deadlines and to reclaim my life from internet-addictions, Baum's book was too important to me not to blog here. L. Frank Baum's creation has become an indelible part of the cultural ...
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October 11, 2009
- Whether we've done it for someone, had it done for us, or been aware of a failure to do so, we're all familiar with situations in which needing to be rescued suddenly seems most important. This week, we asked Red Room to blog about rescue--and we've chosen a few blog posts to highlight: Susan Browne writes that, when she'd finally had enough of her alcoholic father, she "stood up. ...
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September 27, 2009
- We've all said important good-byes--not only to people, but also to things, to ideas, and even to entire belief systems. So it's not surprising that this week's blog topic, "Saying Good-bye," inspired a lot of fantastic entries. We wanted to read about important farewells in your life--and we've chosen a few blog posts to highlight:Teresa Burns Gunther writes, "Mothering is an ...
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September 19, 2009
- Forgiveness: Mahatma Gandhi called it "the attribute of the strong." George Sand said it was "more sublime than to be faultless one's self." And according to Oscar Wilde, nothing annoys your enemies so much. But we wanted to know what you think about forgiveness--we asked the Red Room community to come together and blog on this theme, and the entries made this one of our ...
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September 12, 2009
- Regret is all too easy--repenting, however, can be very difficult. Our most recent blog topic of the week was "Repentance"--and as we expected, the blog entries on this topic were profound, moving, and sometimes very funny. Here are the three bloggers we chose to feature this week:Lucy Coats confesses, for the first time ever, a childhood misdeed and a lifelong secret she continues to ...
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September 9, 2009
- TOP SHELFRed Room congratulates the following authors on their achievements.New Young-Adult Novel: Lauren Baratz-Logsted's new book, Crazy Beautiful, was released this week by Houghton Mifflin. The book is a modern retelling of the fairy tale Beauty and the Beast. New Thriller: Libby Fischer Hellmann's new book, Doubleback (Bleak House Books), will be released on ...
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September 5, 2009
- Last week's blog topic was "Back to School"--a notion that's on most people's minds, in one way or another, at this time of year: many Red Room bloggers are teachers and/or students, many have kids in school, and all of us have memories of classrooms, lessons, and teachers (good and bad). Here are the three bloggers we chose to feature his week: Farzana Versey shares a memory of ...
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August 31, 2009
- TOP SHELFRed Room congratulates the following authors and members on their achievements.New Novel: Julie Buxbaum's new book, After You (The Dial Press), was released last week. "The complexities of friendship. The unraveling of a neglected marriage. And the redemptive power of literature. . . . Julie Buxbaum, the acclaimed author of The Opposite of Love, delivers a powerful, gloriously ...
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August 29, 2009
- Last week's Blog Topic of the Week was "Bad Manners"--and as we expected, discussing bad behavior made for some very good blog entries. We read some funny anecdotes, some insightful social analysis, and some profound introspection. (Have we mentioned lately that we love working at Red Room?) Here are the three bloggers we chose to feature this week.Jessica Barksdale Inclán writes about ...
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August 23, 2009
- Last week, we asked the entire Red Room to come together and blog about a notorious topic triad: "Sex, Religion, and/or Politics." Your mother may have told you that these aren't nice topics for the dinner table, but we were certain that Red Roomers would be able to handle these touchy subjects with sensitivity, intelligence, and humor. And we were right. There were many fantastic ...
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August 18, 2009
- TOP SHELFRed Room congratulates the following authors and members on their achievements. Digital to Hardback: Kemble Scott's novel The Sower (Numina Press) is coming out in hardback on August 31. The Sower was one of the first novels sold by Scribd--now Numina Press is putting it into print. Raj Patel calls the novel "dark, subversive, and laugh-out-loud funny."New Novel: Steven Robert ...
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