Happy bookish birthdays (21 June) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (21 June) to…

• Mary McCarthy (The Group) (at AmazonSmile: benefit a non-profit of your choice by shopping*)
• Jean-Paul Sartre (Being and Nothingness) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Berkeley Breathed (the Bloom County series) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Ian McEwan (The Child in Time) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Henry Taylor (The Flying Change) (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 (20 June) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (20 June) to…

• Lilian Jackson Braun (The Cat Who… series) (at AmazonSmile: benefit a non-profit of your choice by shopping*)
• Josephine Johnson (Now in November) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Charles W. Chesnutt (The Marrow of Tradition) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Vikram Seth (A Suitable Boy) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Robert Crais (the Elvis Cole & Joe Pike series) (at AmazonSmile*)
• E. Lynn Harris (Invisible Life) (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 (19 June) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (19 June) to…

• Salman Rushdie (Midnight’s Children) (at AmazonSmile: benefit a non-profit of your choice by shopping*)
• Jean Rabe (The Bone Shroud) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Tobias Wolff (This Boy’s Life) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Osamu Dazai (The Setting Sun) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Robert Moore Williams (the Jongor series) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Patricia Wrightson (The Nargun and the Stars) (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 (18 June) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (18 June) to…

• Chris Van Allsburg (The Polar Express) (at AmazonSmile: benefit a non-profit of your choice by shopping*)
• Angela Johnson (The First Part Last) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Roger Ebert (The Great Movies) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Pat Hutchins (The Wind Blew) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Richard Powers (The Echo Maker) (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 (17 June) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (17 June) to…

• John Hersey (Hiroshima) (at AmazonSmile: benefit a non-profit of your choice by shopping*)
• Henry Lawson (Children of the Bush) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Dean Ing (Systemic Shock) (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 (16 June) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (16 June) to…

• Joyce Carol Oates (The Wheel of Love) (at AmazonSmile: benefit a non-profit of your choice by shopping*)
• Adam Smith (The Wealth of Nations) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Isabelle Holland (The Man Without a Face) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Andy Weir (The Martian) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Erich Segal (Love Story) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Murray Leinster (The The Pirates of Zan) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Victor Canning (the Mr. Finchley series) (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 (15 June) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (15 June) to…

• Wilbert Awdry (the Thomas the Tank Engine books) (at AmazonSmile: benefit a non-profit of your choice by shopping*)
• J.F. Bone (The Lani People) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Sondra Marshak (The Price of the Phoenix) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Brian Jacques (Redwall) (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 (14 June) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (14 June) to…

• Harriet Beecher Stowe (Uncle Tom’s Cabin) (at AmazonSmile: benefit a non-profit of your choice by shopping*)
• Jerzy Kosinski (Being There) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Mona Simpson (Anywhere But Here) (at AmazonSmile*)
• John Bartlett (Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Judith Kerr (When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Harry Turtledove (the WORLDWAR series) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Laurence Yep (Dragon War) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Laurie Colwin (Happy All the Time) (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 (13 June) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (13 June) to…

• Dorothy L. Sayers (the Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries) (at AmazonSmile: benefit a non-profit of your choice by shopping*)
• Audrey Niffenegger (The Time Traveler’s Wife) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Whitley Strieber (The Wolfen) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Frances Burney (Evelina) (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 June) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (12 June) to…

• Anne Frank (The Diary of a Young Girl) (at AmazonSmile: benefit a non-profit of your choice by shopping*)
• Johanna Spyri (Heidi) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Djuna Barnes (Nightwood) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Melanie Rawn (Dragon Prince) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Trevanian (The Eiger Sanction) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Charles Kingsley (The Water Babies) (at AmazonSmile*) “People call them Pterodactyles: but that is only because they are ashamed to call them flying dragons, after denying so long that flying dragons could exist.”–The Water Babies, collected in  The Mind Boggles: A Unique Book of Quotations (at AmazonSmile: benefit a non-profit of your choice by shopping*) by me 😉
• Rona Jaffe (The Best of Everything) (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)