Happy bookish birthdays (15 October) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (15 October) to…

• P.G. Wodehouse (Bertie Wooster and Jeeves) (at AmazonSmile: benefit a non-profit of your choice by shopping*)
• Mario Puzo (The Godfather) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Virgil (The Aeneid) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Ed McBain (87th Precinct) (at AmazonSmile*)
• S.S. Dine (Philo Vance) (at AmazonSmile*)
• James H. Schmitz (The Witches of Karras) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Italo Calvino (Invisible Cities) (at AmazonSmile*)
• E.C. Tubb (the Dumarest series) (at AmazonSmile*)
• George Turner (The Sea and Summer) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Laurie McBain (Devil’s Desire) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Walter Jon Williams (Praxis) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Emma Chichester Clark (Blue Kangaroo) (at AmazonSmile*)

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* I am linking to the same thing at the regular Amazon site, and at AmazonSmile. When you shop at AmazonSmile, half a percent of your purchase price on eligible items goes to a non-profit you choose. It will feel just like shopping at Amazon: you’ll be using your same account. The one thing for you that is different is that you pick a non-profit the first time you go (which you can change whenever you want)…and the good feeling you’ll get.  Shop ’til you help!  

This post by Bufo Calvin originally appeared in the I Love My Kindle blog. To support this or other organizations, begin your Amazon shopping from a link on their sites: Amazon.com (Smile.Amazon.com)

Happy bookish birthdays (October 14) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (October 14) to…

• e.e. cummings (Tulips and Chimneys) (at AmazonSmile: benefit a non-profit of your choice by shopping*)
• Richard Christian Matheson (Scars and Other Distinguishing Marks (at AmazonSmile* Note: not Richard Matheson of I Am Legend)
• Katherine Mansfield (The Garden Party) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Vernon Lee (Hauntings) (at AmazonSmile*)

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* I am linking to the same thing at the regular Amazon site, and at AmazonSmile. When you shop at AmazonSmile, half a percent of your purchase price on eligible items goes to a non-profit you choose. It will feel just like shopping at Amazon: you’ll be using your same account. The one thing for you that is different is that you pick a non-profit the first time you go (which you can change whenever you want)…and the good feeling you’ll get.  Shop ’til you help!  

This post by Bufo Calvin originally appeared in the I Love My Kindle blog. To support this or other organizations, begin your Amazon shopping from a link on their sites: Amazon.com (Smile.Amazon.com)

Happy bookish birthdays (13 October) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (13 October) to…

• Mollie Katzen (The Moosewood Cookbook) (at AmazonSmile: benefit a non-profit of your choice by shopping*)
• Lincoln Child (the Pendergast series) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Colin Channer (Waiting in Vain) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Conrad Richter (The Town) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Albert Jay Nock (The Myth of a Guilty Nation) (at AmazonSmile*)

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Bufo’s Alexa Skills

* I am linking to the same thing at the regular Amazon site, and at AmazonSmile. When you shop at AmazonSmile, half a percent of your purchase price on eligible items goes to a non-profit you choose. It will feel just like shopping at Amazon: you’ll be using your same account. The one thing for you that is different is that you pick a non-profit the first time you go (which you can change whenever you want)…and the good feeling you’ll get.  Shop ’til you help!  

This post by Bufo Calvin originally appeared in the I Love My Kindle blog. To support this or other organizations, begin your Amazon shopping from a link on their sites: Amazon.com (Smile.Amazon.com)

Happy bookish birthdays (12 October) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (12 October) to…

• Lester Dent (Doc Savage) (at AmazonSmile: benefit a non-profit of your choice by shopping*)
• Ann Petry (The Street) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Aleister Crowley (Moonchild) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Louis Hémon (Maria Chapdelaine) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Ling Ding (AKA Ding Ling, Ting Ling) (The Suns Shines Over The Sanggan River) (at AmazonSmile*)

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Bufo’s Alexa Skills

* I am linking to the same thing at the regular Amazon site, and at AmazonSmile. When you shop at AmazonSmile, half a percent of your purchase price on eligible items goes to a non-profit you choose. It will feel just like shopping at Amazon: you’ll be using your same account. The one thing for you that is different is that you pick a non-profit the first time you go (which you can change whenever you want)…and the good feeling you’ll get.  Shop ’til you help!  

This post by Bufo Calvin originally appeared in the I Love My Kindle blog. To support this or other organizations, begin your Amazon shopping from a link on their sites: Amazon.com (Smile.Amazon.com)

Happy bookish birthdays (11 October) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (11 October) to…

• Elmore Leonard (Get Shorty) (at AmazonSmile: benefit a non-profit of your choice by shopping*)
• James M. McPherson (Battle Cry of Freedom) (at AmazonSmile*)
• William R. Fortschen (The Alexandrian Ring) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Daniel Quinn (Ishmael) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Arthur Hoey “Steele Rudd” Davis (On Our Selection) (at AmazonSmile*)
• G.C. Edmonson (The Ship That Sailed the Timestream) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Doris Piserchia (Spaceling) (at AmazonSmile*)

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Bufo’s Alexa Skills

* I am linking to the same thing at the regular Amazon site, and at AmazonSmile. When you shop at AmazonSmile, half a percent of your purchase price on eligible items goes to a non-profit you choose. It will feel just like shopping at Amazon: you’ll be using your same account. The one thing for you that is different is that you pick a non-profit the first time you go (which you can change whenever you want)…and the good feeling you’ll get.  Shop ’til you help!  

This post by Bufo Calvin originally appeared in the I Love My Kindle blog. To support this or other organizations, begin your Amazon shopping from a link on their sites: Amazon.com (Smile.Amazon.com)

Happy bookish birthdays (10 October) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (10 October) to…

• Nora Roberts (AKA J.D. Robb, Sarah Hardesty) (Survivor in Death) (at AmazonSmile: benefit a non-profit of your choice by shopping*)
• James Clavell (Shōgun) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Claude Simon (The Acacia) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Lily Tuck (The News from Paraguay) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Frederick Bartelme (Bob the Gambler) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Anne Mather (AKA Caroline Fleming, Cardine Fleming) (Leopard in the Snow) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Max Ehrlich (The Reincarnation of Peter Proud) (at AmazonSmile*)

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Bufo’s Alexa Skills

* I am linking to the same thing at the regular Amazon site, and at AmazonSmile. When you shop at AmazonSmile, half a percent of your purchase price on eligible items goes to a non-profit you choose. It will feel just like shopping at Amazon: you’ll be using your same account. The one thing for you that is different is that you pick a non-profit the first time you go (which you can change whenever you want)…and the good feeling you’ll get.  Shop ’til you help!  

This post by Bufo Calvin originally appeared in the I Love My Kindle blog. To support this or other organizations, begin your Amazon shopping from a link on their sites: Amazon.com (Smile.Amazon.com)

Happy bookish birthdays (9 October) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (9 October) to…

• Belva Plain (Evergreen) (at AmazonSmile: benefit a non-profit of your choice by shopping*)
• Bruce Catton (A Stillness at Appomattox) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Ivo Andrić (The Bridge on the Drina) (at AmazonSmile*)

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Bufo’s Alexa Skills

* I am linking to the same thing at the regular Amazon site, and at AmazonSmile. When you shop at AmazonSmile, half a percent of your purchase price on eligible items goes to a non-profit you choose. It will feel just like shopping at Amazon: you’ll be using your same account. The one thing for you that is different is that you pick a non-profit the first time you go (which you can change whenever you want)…and the good feeling you’ll get.  Shop ’til you help!  

This post by Bufo Calvin originally appeared in the I Love My Kindle blog. To support this or other organizations, begin your Amazon shopping from a link on their sites: Amazon.com (Smile.Amazon.com)

Happy bookish birthdays (8 October) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (8 October) to…

• R.L. Stine (Goosebumps) (at AmazonSmile: benefit a non-profit of your choice by shopping*)
• Henry Fielding (The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Frank Herbert (Dune) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Richard S. Shaver (I Remember Lemuria) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Walter Lord (A Night to Remember) (at AmazonSmile*)
• William Corlett (The Magician’s House quartet) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Shane Stevens (Dead City) (at AmazonSmile*)

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Bufo’s Alexa Skills

* I am linking to the same thing at the regular Amazon site, and at AmazonSmile. When you shop at AmazonSmile, half a percent of your purchase price on eligible items goes to a non-profit you choose. It will feel just like shopping at Amazon: you’ll be using your same account. The one thing for you that is different is that you pick a non-profit the first time you go (which you can change whenever you want)…and the good feeling you’ll get.  Shop ’til you help!  

This post by Bufo Calvin originally appeared in the I Love My Kindle blog. To support this or other organizations, begin your Amazon shopping from a link on their sites: Amazon.com (Smile.Amazon.com)

Happy bookish birthdays (7 October) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (7 October) to…

• Thomas Kenneally (Schindler’s Ark [AKA Schindler’s List]) (at AmazonSmile: benefit a non-profit of your choice by shopping*)
• Sherman Alexie (The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian) (at AmazonSmile*)
• James Whitcomb Riley (The Raggedy Man) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Alice Dalgliesh (The Courage of Sarah Noble) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Helen MacInnes (The Salzburg Connection) (at AmazonSmile*)

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* I am linking to the same thing at the regular Amazon site, and at AmazonSmile. When you shop at AmazonSmile, half a percent of your purchase price on eligible items goes to a non-profit you choose. It will feel just like shopping at Amazon: you’ll be using your same account. The one thing for you that is different is that you pick a non-profit the first time you go (which you can change whenever you want)…and the good feeling you’ll get.  Shop ’til you help!  

This post by Bufo Calvin originally appeared in the I Love My Kindle blog. To support this or other organizations, begin your Amazon shopping from a link on their sites: Amazon.com (Smile.Amazon.com)

Do you stick your head “out the window” or “out of the window”?

Do you stick your head “out the window” or “out of the window”?

Well, this has provoked a lot of thinking and discussion today!

I was reading something a while back, and a character was described as sticking their head “out the window”. I highlighted that: I typically take note of what I consider to be proofreading errors when I’m sight reading books, and I have sent them to the publishers on occasion (I’ve been thanked for that and actually seen changes in later editions…not saying I was responsible, but I like to think I helped). 🙂

Then, I thought that it might be a regionalism: maybe some places say “out the window” and other places say “out of the window”.

However, that doesn’t seem to be the case either…and when I thought about it, it’s much more complicated than that. Sometimes I say “out of” and sometimes I say “out”. A person sticks their head “out of the window”, but a dog sticks their “head out the car window”.

This discussion has been quite robust!

For example, is it different for a hand or a head? Different for dogs and humans? Do you stick your hand out the car window to wave at somebody, or “out of the”?

One hypothesis: it’s just “out” if something doesn’t move all the way out of the container, but “out of” if it does. You take something “out of the box”, but not “out the box”. Something comes “out of left field”, not “out left field”.

That doesn’t work for me, though: I do say you stick your head “out of the window” and your hand “out of the window”, even though your whole body doesn’t leave the vehicle.

I’m running a poll on Twitter on this, if you’d like to participate. If you want to comment, feel free to do so here (or on Twitter).

Bufo’s “out of the window”/”out the window” poll on Twitter

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* I am linking to the same thing at the regular Amazon site, and at AmazonSmile. When you shop at AmazonSmile, half a percent of your purchase price on eligible items goes to a non-profit you choose. It will feel just like shopping at Amazon: you’ll be using your same account. The one thing for you that is different is that you pick a non-profit the first time you go (which you can change whenever you want)…and the good feeling you’ll get.  Shop ’til you help!  

This post by Bufo Calvin originally appeared in the I Love My Kindle blog. To support this or other organizations, begin your Amazon shopping from a link on their sites: Amazon.com (Smile.Amazon.com)