Happy bookish birthdays (7 September) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (7 September) to…

• Taylor Caldwell (Captains and the Kings) (at AmazonSmile: benefit a non-profit of your choice by shopping*)
• Jennifer Egan (A Visit from the Goon Squad) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Eric Hill (the Spot series) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Joe Klein (Primary Colors) (at AmazonSmile*)
• John William Polidori (The Vampyre) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Elinor Wylie (Nets to Catch the Wind) (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 (6 September) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (6 September) to…

• Robert M. Pirsig (Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) (at AmazonSmile: benefit a non-profit of your choice by shopping*)
• Alice Sebold (The Lovely Bones) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Felix Salten (Bambi, A Life in the Woods) (at AmazonSmile*)
• China Miéville (Perdido Street Station) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Donna Haraway (The Companion Species Manifesto) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Tony DiTerlizzi (the The Spiderwick Chronicles series) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Raymond Benson (the Black Stiletto series) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Christopher Brookmyre (the Jack Parlabane series) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Julien Green (Journal) (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 (5 September) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (5 September) to…

• Arthur Koestler (Darkness at Noon) (at AmazonSmile: benefit a non-profit of your choice by shopping*)
• Jonathan Kozol (Death at an Early Age) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Frank Yerby (The Foxes of Harrow) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Humphrey Cobb (Paths of Glory) (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 (4 September) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (4 September) to…

• Richard Wright (Native Son) (at AmazonSmile: benefit a non-profit of your choice by shopping*)
• Mary Renault (the Alexander trilogy) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Joan Aiken (The Wolves of Willoughby) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Syd Hoff (Danny and the Dinosaur) (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 (3 September) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (3 September) to…

• Alison Lurie (Foreign Affairs) (at AmazonSmile: benefit a non-profit of your choice by shopping*)
• Kiran Desai (The Inheritance of Loss) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Sarah Orne Jewett (A Country Doctor) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Cherry Wilder (The Rulers of Hylor series) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Loren Eiseley (The Immense Journey) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Sally Benson (Meet Me in St. Louis) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Sarah Bradford (Diana) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Mick Farren (Phaid the Gambler) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Andy Griffiths (The Really Big Treehouse 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 (2 September) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (2 September) to…

• Allen Drury (Advise and Consent) (at AmazonSmile: benefit a non-profit of your choice by shopping*)
• Cleveland Amory (The Cat Who Came for Christmas) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Joseph Roth (The Radetzky March) (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 (1 September) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (1 September) to…

• Edgar Rice Burroughs (A Princess of Mars) (at AmazonSmile: benefit a non-profit of your choice by shopping*)
• Victoria Holt (Mistress of Mellyn (at AmazonSmile*)
• C.J. Cherryh (Downbelow Station) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Timothy Zahn (Thrawn) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Scott Spencer (Endless Love) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Rex Beach (The Spoilers) (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 (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. 

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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All aboard The Measured Circle’s Geek Time Trip at The History Project!

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*)

Join thousands of readers and try the free ILMK magazine at Flipboard!

All aboard The Measured Circle’s Geek Time Trip at The History Project!

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.