Happy bookish birthdays (31 August) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (31 August) to…

• William Saroyan (The Human Comedy) (at AmazonSmile: benefit a non-profit of your choice by shopping*)
• Agnes Bulmer (Messiah’s Kingdom) (at AmazonSmile*)
• DuBose Heyward (Porgy) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Steve Perry (The Matador series) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Edward Cox (The Relic Guild) (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. 

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Happy bookish birthdays (30 August) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (30 August) to…

• Mary Shelley (Frankenstein, or, the Modern Prometheus) (at AmazonSmile: benefit a non-profit of your choice by shopping*)
• Virginia Lee Burton (Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Ray Cummings (Brigands of the Moon) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Colin Dann (the Farthing Woods series) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Laurent de Brunhoff (Babar Comes to America) (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. 

Happy bookish birthdays (29 August) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (29 August) to…

• Temple Grandin (Animals in Translation) (at AmazonSmile: benefit non-profit of your choice by shopping*)
• Karen Hesse (Out of the Dust) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Nancy Holder (Death in the Water) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Steve Yarbrough (The Realm of Last Chances) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Malcolm P. Kube-McDowell (The Quiet Pools) (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. 

Happy bookish birthdays (28 August) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (28 August) to…

• Leo Tolstoy (War and Peace) (at AmazonSmile: benefit a non-profit of your choice by shopping*)
• Jack Vance (the The Dying Earth series) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Vonda N. McIntyre (Dreamsnake) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Barbara Hambly (the James Asher series) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Bruno Bettelheim (The Uses of Enchantment) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Robertson Davies (the Deptford Trilogy) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Sheridan Le Fanu (Carmilla) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Roger Tory Peterson (the Peterson Field Guide 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. 

Happy bookish birthdays (27 August) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (27 August) to…

• Ira Levin (Rosemary’s Baby) (at AmazonSmile: benefit a non-profit of your choice by shopping*)
• Theodore Dreiser (Sister Carrie) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Antonia Fraser (Mary Queen of Scots) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Norah Lofts (The Town House) (at AmazonSmile*)
• C.S. Forester (the Horatio Hornblower series) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Jeanette Winterson (Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit) (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. 

Happy bookish birthdays (26 August) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (26 August) to…

• Zona Gale (Miss Lulu Bett) (at AmazonSmile: benefit a non-profit of you choice by shopping*)
• Caroline Miller (Lamb in His Bosom) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Eleanor Dark (The Timeless Land) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Christopher Isherwood (The Berlin Stories) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Otto Binder (the Adam Link series) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Jules Romains (The Death of a Nobody) (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. 

Happy bookish birthdays (25 August) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (25 August) to…

• Frederick Forsyth (The Day of the Jackal) (at AmazonSmile: benefit a non-profit of your choice by shopping*)
• Martin Amis (Time’s Arrow) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Thea Astley (The Multiple Effects of Rainshadow) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Rachael Ray (30-Minute Meals) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Patrick McManus (They Shoot Canoes, Don’t They?) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Ian Falconer (the Olivia series) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Lane Smith (Grandpa Green) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Brian Moore (Judith Hearne) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Charles Ghinga (Returning to Earth) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Virginia Euwer Wolff (Make Lemonade) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Conrad Black (Rise to Greatness) (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. 

Happy bookish birthdays (24 August) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (24 August) to…

• Alexander McCall Smith (The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series) (at AmazonSmile: benefit a non-profit of your choice by shopping*)
• Susan Sheehan (Is There No Place on Earth for Me?) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Jorge Luis Borges (Labyrinths) (at AmazonSmile*)
• John Green (The Fault in Our Stars) (at AmazonSmile*)
• James Tiptree Jr. (Her Smoke Rose Up Forever) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Oscar Hijuelos (The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Paolo Coelho (The Alchemist) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Orson Scott Card (Ender’s Game) (at AmazonSmile*)
• A.S. Byatt (Possession) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Howard Zinn (A People’s History of the United States) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Earl Derr Biggers (the Charlie Chan series) (at AmazonSmile*)
• David Ireland (The Glass Canoe) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Jean Rhys (Wide Sargasso Sea) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Stanton A. Coblentz (Flight Through Tomorrow) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Malcolm Cowley (Exile’s Return) (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. 

Happy bookish birthdays (23 August) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (23 August) to…

• Nelson Demille (the John Corey series) (at AmazonSmile: benefit a non-profit of your choice by shopping*)
• Edgar Lee Masters (Spoon River Anthology) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Will Cuppy (The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody) (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. 

Happy bookish birthdays (22 August) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (22 August) to…

• Ray Bradbury (Fahrenheit 451) (at AmazonSmile: benefit a non-profit of your choice by shopping*)
• Annie Proulx (The Shipping News) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Edward Rowe Snow (The Islands of Boston Harbor) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Will Shetterly (Cats Have No Lord) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Diane Setterfield (The Thirteenth Tale) (at AmazonSmile*)
• James Kirkwood (P.S. Your Cat Is Dead) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Paul W. Fairman (Ten from Infinity) (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.