Happy bookish birthdays (29 July) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (29 July) to…

• Booth Tarkington (The Magnificent Ambersons) (at AmazonSmile: benefit a non-profit of your choice by shopping*)
• Don Marquis (archy and mehitabel) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Chester Himes (the Harlem Detectives series) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Adele Griffin (The Unfinished Life of Addison Stone) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Sharon Creech (Walk Two Moons) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Mary Lee Settle (Blood Tie) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Amy S. Foster (the Rift Uprising trilogy) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Edwin O’Connor (The Edge of Sadness) (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 July) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (28 July) to…

• Beatrix Potter (The Tale of Peter Rabbit) (at AmazonSmile: benefit a non-profit of your choice by shopping*)
• Malcolm Lowry (Under the Volcano) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Natalie Babbitt (Tuck Everlasting) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Shirley Ann Grau (The Keepers of the House) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Willard Price (the Adventure series) (at AmazonSmile*)
• William T. Vollmann (Europe Central) (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 July) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (27 July) to…

• Ruth Plumly Thompson (The Royal Book of Oz) (at AmazonSmile: benefit a non-profit of your choice by shopping*)
• Hilaire Belloc (The Great Heresies) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Jack Higgins (The Eagle Has Landed) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Cassandra Clare (The Mortal Instruments series) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Robert Rankin (The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Sydney J. Van Scyoc (Sunwaifs) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Cat Bauer (Harley, Like a Person) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Peter Reading (Marfan) (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 July) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (26 July) to…

• Aldous Huxley (Brave New World) (at AmazonSmile: benefit a non-profit of your choice by shopping*)
• Paul Gallico (The Poseidon Adventure) (at AmazonSmile*)
• James Lovelock (Gaia) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Jan Berenstain (The Berenstain Bears series) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Colin Mackay (The Song of the Forest) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Lawrence Watt-Evans (The Misenchanted Sword) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Jodie Brownlee (the Ruby Rosemount 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 (25 July) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (25 July) to…

• Josephine Tey (the Inspector Grant mysteries) (at AmazonSmile: benefit a non-profit of your choice by shopping*)
• Eric Hoffer (The True Believer) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Ruth Krauss (The Carrot Seed) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Brian Stableford (Dark Ararat) (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 (24 July) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (24 July) to…

• Alexandre Dumas (The Three Musketeers) (at AmazonSmile: benefit a non-profit of your choice by shopping*)
• John D. MacDonald (the Travis McGee series) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Robert Graves (I, Claudius) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Lord Dunsany (The King of Elfland’s Daughter) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Aaron Elkins (the Gideon Oliver mysteries) (at AmazonSmile*)
• E.F. Benson (the Mapp and Lucia 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 (23 July) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (23 July) to…

• Raymond Chandler (The Big Sleep) (at AmazonSmile: benefit a non-profit of your choice by shopping*)
• Lauren Groff (Fates and Furies) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Gavin Lambert (Inside Daisy Clover) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Hubert Selby Jr. (Last Exit to Brooklyn) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Gardner Dozois (Morning Child) (at AmazonSmile*)
• C.M. Kornbluth (The Space Merchants)

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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 July) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (22 July) to…

• S.E. Hinton (The Outsiders) (at AmazonSmile: benefit a non-profit of your choice by shopping*)
• Stephen Vincent Benét (John Brown’s Body) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Tom Robbins (Even Cowgirls Get the Blues) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Amy Vanderbilt (The Amy Vanderbilt Complete Book of Etiquette) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Jack Matthews (The Charisma Campaigns) (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 (21 July) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (21 July) to…

• Ernest Hemingway (A Farewell to Arms) (at AmazonSmile: benefit a non-profit of your choice by shopping*)
• Michael Connelly (the Harry Bosch series) (at AmazonSmile*)
• John Gardner (Grendel) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Marshall McLuhan (Understanding Media) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Sarah Waters (Tipping the Velvet) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Christopher Barzak (One for Sorrow) (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 blogs/organizations, buy  Amazon Gift Cards from a link on the site, then use those to buy your items. There will be no cost to you, and a benefit to them.

Happy bookish birthdays (20 July) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (20 July) to…

• Alistair Maclean (Ice Station Zebra) (at AmazonSmile: benefit a non-profit of your choice by shopping*)
• Cormac McCarthy (The Road) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Thomas Berger (Little Big Man) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Alistair MacLeod (No Great Mischief) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Thomas L. Friedman (Hot, Flat, and Crowded) (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 blogs/organizations, buy  Amazon Gift Cards from a link on the site, then use those to buy your items. There will be no cost to you, and a benefit to them.