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Launching a Book Club
Hello, we would like to have occasional informal events that provide opportunities to discuss and gush or jeer and listen about books. This is usually called a book club. But…we […]
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Ulysses
Ulysses was published in 1922, but banned in the United States for over ten years for being obscene. My Modern Library edition includes the text of Judge John M. Woosley’s […]
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The Stardust Grail by Yume Kitasei
How do you choose friends? Common interests? Shared values? Compatible temperaments? Now, how about characters for a story? The opposite? If you are going to throw people in a can […]
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Our New Store is At 915 Vine Street
Our new store is open at 915 Vine Street in central Cincinnati. The location was once a luggage repair shop and later French Crust (YUM), which moved to Elm street. […]
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Why Read Shakespeare
I picked up a copy of Hamlet at a bookstore in Milford called the Bookmatters. Here’s my review: it’s good and funny and you should read it not just for […]
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Poverty, By America: Do we choose to let poverty persist?
Matthew Desmond asks a difficult question in his latest book, Poverty, By America. Why does a country with so much wealth have so much poverty? But his answer is much […]