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Lucien Fewell shot James Clark after he apparently ran off with Lucien's 16-year-old sister. The murder trial that followed featured two Confederate generals and a former Virginia governor. What was the verdict? (also on Amazon.com)
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Book Lover’s Day
I say this a lot, but so many of these days I’ve written about feel to me like they are just “Saturday” (or whatever day it is). This is another one. One day to celebrate books and book lovers? Ridiculous! … Continue reading
Paperback Book Day
According to the blurb, today celebrates the day that Penguin started publishing paperbacks in 1935. Looked at from a distance, paperbacks were sort of the cassettes or CDs of the print world—the bridge between OG books and electronic storage. Paperbacks … Continue reading
Hop a Park Day
The town I live in now has two parks! I could do this! But it would probably take less than an hour to explore them both thoroughly (including the time needed to walk from one to the other). My son’s … Continue reading
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Alice in Wonderland Day
You know how one of those “getting to know you” things that people do is ask about your favorite movie/band/book/whatever? I kind of hate that, because whenever I’m put on the spot, it’s like my brain just goes into a … Continue reading
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Dracula Day
By a lot of measures, I was a pretty average parent. To date, the kid has not turned out as a start athlete or prodigy, but he’s also not a deadbeat or a convict. Much like his mother, he seems … Continue reading
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Tagged Books, Bram-Stoker, Dracula, Horror, Literature, Recognition Day, Vampires, Writing
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Scavenger Hunt Day
Does anyone remember the book Masquerade? It came out in 1979, and it was a gorgeous book of pictures telling the story of Jack Hare carrying a treasure from the moon to the sun, but the gimmick was that if … Continue reading
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Tagged Books, Fiction, Friends, Imagination, Reading, Recognition Day, Scavenger Hunt, Writing
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Biographer’s Day
National Biographers’ Day is celebrated annually on the day that Samuel Johnson met his biographer, James Boswell, in 1763. I have somehow never read Boswell, but I have pretty much always loved biographies. The school library at my grade school … Continue reading
Paranormal Day
A million years ago, I wrote a book about a murder trial. You can still buy it (just look to the right). The year the book came out, the historic site where the murder (and the trial) took place held … Continue reading
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Independent Bookstores Day
The hubs is back on the book tour circuit, which means a lot of visits to bookstores. Much as I love a good Barnes and Noble and much as I lament the loss of Brentano’s (as my son laments the … Continue reading
Bibliomania Day
I am delighted to report that this day is an observance of what the word actually means, which is a mental disorder obsession with books, not just a love of them. (That’s bibliophilia.) This day commemorates the weird story of … Continue reading
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