Happy bookish birthdays (17 September) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (17 September) to…

• Mary Stewart (The Crystal Cave) (at AmazonSmile: benefit a non-profit of your choice by shopping*)
• Robert B. Parker (the Spenser series) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Ken Kesey (One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Cheryl Strayed (Wild) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Gail Carson Levine (Ella Enchanted) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Martha Ostenso (Wild Geese) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Robert Graysmith (Zodiac) (at AmazonSmile*)
• John Creasey (Gideon’s Fire) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Frank O’Connor (The Lonely Voice) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Ib Melchior (Hitler’s Werewolves) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Park Honan (Jane Austen: Her Life) (at AmazonSmile*)

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• Lord of the Flies by William Golding is first published in 1954

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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!  

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Happy bookish birthdays (16 September) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (16 September) to…

• John Knowles (A Separate Peace) (at AmazonSmile: benefit a non-profit of your choice by shopping*)
• H.A. Rey (the Curious George series) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Alfred Noyes (The Highwayman) (at AmazonSmile*
• Julia Donaldson (The Gruffalo) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Nancy Huston (The Goldberg Variations) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Wil McCarthy (Bloom) (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!  

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Happy bookish birthdays (15 September) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (15 September) to…

• Agatha Christie (Murder on the Orient Express) (at AmazonSmile: benefit a non-profit of your choice by shopping*)
• James Fenimore Cooper (The Last of the Mohicans) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Americanah) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Claude McKay (Home to Harlem) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Chelsea Quinn Yarbro (the Count-Saint Germain series) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Robert McCloskey (Make Way for Ducklings) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Tomie dePaola (Strega Nona) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Loren D. Estleman (the Amos Walker mysteries) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Norman Spinrad (Bug Jack Barron) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Howard Waldrop (The Texas-Israeli War: 1999) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Fawn M. Brodie (No Man Knows My History) (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 (14 September) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (14 September) to…

• Geraldine Brooks (March) (at AmazonSmile: benefit a non-profit of your choice by shopping*)
• William H. Armstrong (Sounder) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Martin Caidin (Cyborg) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Bonnie Jo Campbell (Once Upon a River) (at AmazonSmile*)
• John Steptoe (Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Larry Collins (Is Paris Burning?) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Marc Reisner (Cadillac Desert) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Hamlin Garland (Main-Traveled Roads) (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 (13 September) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (13 September) to…

• Roald Dahl (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory) (at AmazonSmile: benefit a non-profit of your choice by shopping*)
• Mildred D. Taylor (Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Warren Murphy (the The Destroyer series) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Carol Kendall (The Gammage Cup) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Sherwood Anderson (Dark Laughter) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Mary Midgley (Animals and Why They Matter) (at AmazonSmile*)
• J.B. Priestley (The Good Companions) (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!  

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Happy bookish birthdays (12 September) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (12 September) to…

• Stanislaw Lem (Solaris) (at AmazonSmile: benefit a non-profit of your choice by shopping*)
• Pittacus Lore (I Am Number Four series) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Walter B. Gibson (the The Shadow series) (at AmazonSmile*)
• James Frey (A Million Little Pieces) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Charles L. Grant (the Oxrun series) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Mary Zaturenska (Cold Morning Sky) (at AmazonSmile*)
• K.A. Opperman (The Crimson Tome) (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 (11 September) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (11 September) to…

• D.H. Lawrence (Lady Chatterley’s Lover) (at AmazonSmile: benefit a non-profit of your choice by shopping*)
• Jessica Mitford (Hons and Rebels) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Andre Dubus III (House of Sand and Fog) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Anthony Browne (Voices in the Park) (at AmazonSmile*)
• William X. Kienzle (The Father Koesler Mysteries series) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Philip Ardagh (the Eddie Dickens 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 (10 September) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (10 September) to…

• H.D. (The Gift) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Isabel Colegate (The Shooting Party) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Jared Diamond (Guns, Germs, and Steel) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Stephen Jay Gould (Hen’s Teeth and Horse’s Toes (at AmazonSmile*)
• Alison Bechdel (Fun Home) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Pat Cadigan (The Synners) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Hannah Webster Foster (The Coquette) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Bill O’Reilly (Killing Lincoln) (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 (9 September) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (9 September) to…

• Leo Tolstoy (War and Peace) (at AmazonSmile: benefit a non-profit of your choice by shopping*)
• James Hilton (Lost Horizon) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Phyllis A. Whitney (The Mystery of the Haunted Pool) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Mary Hunter Austin (The Land of Little Rain) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Kimberly Willis Holt (When Zachary Beaver Came to Town) (at AmazonSmile*)
• T.M. Wright (the Strange Seed 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 (8 September) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (8 September) to…

• Ann Beattie (Love Always) (at AmazonSmile: benefit a non-profit of your choice by shopping*)
• Grace Metalious (Peyton Place) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Marianne Wiggins (Evidence of Things Unseen) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Michael Frayn (Spies) (at AmazonSmile*)
• N.V.M. Gonzalez (Work on the Mountain) (at AmazonSmile*)
• W.W. Jacobs (The Monkey’s Paw) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Michael Shermer (Why People Believe Weird Things) (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.