Books
Study: New kids' books lack connection to nature
Take a minute to think about your favorite book from childhood. Do you envision lots of furry animals? A wise old tree? Kids in the forest? With environmental issues so prominent in the American mindset, one would think that the natural environment would play a larger role now in children's books...
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Book review: This will make you long for a cloudy day
I spotted "The Cloud Collector's Handbook" in a bin of shamelessly disregarded books near my editor's desk.
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S. Korea law gags dissent, critics charge
By his own admission, Park Jung-geun has long been an Internet wiseguy, a young photographer and blogger with a cyber chip on his shoulder whose favorite target for satire is the North Korean government.
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Picture book: Kids will learn to love themselves with a little help from 'Mr. Prickles'
"Mr. Prickles: A Quill-Fated Love Story"
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Don't just read; slow down and savor a really great book
It's one thing to be a voracious reader. It's another thing entirely to be a good reader. My New Year's resolution is not to read more books. It's to read a smaller number, but slower.
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Best-sellers
Rankings for hard-cover books sold in Southern California, as reported by selected book stores:
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Best-sellers
Rankings for hard-cover books sold in Southern California, as reported by selected book stores:
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BOOKS
Tom Eblen: Is Lexington the Literary Capital of Mid-America?
Many states have rich literary traditions. But few can top what writers who were born in or moved to Central and Eastern Kentucky have produced — and are producing.
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Wealthy Facebook artist takes stock, tags Stern, Walters as interviewer choices
David Choe, the graffiti artist who made headlines last week for having an estimated $200 million in Facebook stock, spent this week in New York granting interviews to a lucky few media outlets.
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'Comic Book Men,' premiering Sunday on AMC
"Comic Book Men" is a new retail reality show from AMC, a network not commonly associated with reality shows. It is different from other retail reality shows in that it comes from and features Kevin Smith, the movie director and Hollywood refusenik, who owns the Red Bank, N.J., comic book store ...
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'Comic Book Men,' premiering Sunday on AMC
The new series "Comic Book Men" taps into the love and longing that many of us have for those colorfully drawn magazines of our youth. And it gives us reason to believe that our love for those pages of bright, action-laden panels had some value.








