Happy bookish birthdays (15 November) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (15 November) to…

• Daniel Pinkwater (Lizard Music) (at AmazonSmile: benefit a non-profit of your choice by shopping*)
• J.G. Ballard (Empire of the Sun) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Gerhart Hauptmann (The Weavers) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Sacheverell Sitwell (Liszt) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Thomas Williams (The Hair of Harold Roux) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Joanna Barnes (Pastora) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Rick Atkinson (the Liberation trilogy) (at AmazonSmile*)
• William Hope Hodgson (the Carnacki, the Ghost Finder 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 (14 November) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (14 November) to…

• William Steig (Shrek!) (at AmazonSmile: benefit a non-profit of your choice by shopping*)
• Jacob Abbott (the Rollo books) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Astrid Lindgren (Pippi Longstocking) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Eric Malpass (the Pentecost Family) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Peter Norton (Norton guides computing books) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Tim Bowler (Blade) (at AmazonSmile*)

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* 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 November) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (13 November) to…

• Robert Louis Stevenson(Treasure Island) (at AmazonSmile: benefit a non-profit of your choice by shopping*)
• C. Vann Woodward (The Strange Career of Jim Crow) (at AmazonSmile*)
• William Taubman (Gorbachev: His Life and Times) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Philip Francis Nowlan (the Buck Rogers series) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Stephen Baxter (The Time Ships) (at AmazonSmile*)
• J.R. Rain (the Samantha Moon/Vampire for Hire 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 (12 November) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (12 November) to…

• Michael Ende (The Neverending Story) (at AmazonSmile: benefit a non-profit of your choice by shopping*)
• Richelle Mead (Vampire Academy) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Tracy Kidder (The Soul of a New Machine) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Ben Travers (The Aldwych Farces) (at AmazonSmile*)
• John McGahern (Amongst Women) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Michael Bishop (No Enemy But Time) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Naomi Wolf (The Beauty Myth) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Neal Shusterman (Challenger Deep) (at AmazonSmile*)
• John R. Neill (The Wonder City of Oz) (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 (11 November) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (11 November) to…

• Kurt Vonnegut (Slaughterhouse-Five) (at AmazonSmile: benefit a non-profit of your choice by shopping*)
• Mary Gaitskill (Veronica) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Carlos Fuentes (The Death of Artemio Cruz) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Fyodor Dostoevsky (Crime and Punishment) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Howard Fast (The Immigrants) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Peg Kehret (The Volcano Disaster) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Mack Reynolds (The Mercenary from Tomorrow) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Shirley Graham Du Bois (There Once Was a Slave…The Heroic Story of Frederick Douglass) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Thomas Bailey Aldrich (The Story of a Bad Boy) (at AmazonSmile*)

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* 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 (10 November) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (10 November) to…

• Neil Gaiman (American Gods) (at AmazonSmile: benefit a non-profit of your choice by shopping*)
• Oliver Goldsmith (The Vicar of Wakefield) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Winston Churchill (The Gathering Storm) (at AmazonSmile*)
• John P. Marquand (The Late George Apley) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Holly Black (The Spiderwick Chronicles) (at AmazonSmile*)
• W.E.B. Griffin (Death at Nuremberg) (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 (9 November) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (9 November) to…

• Carl Sagan (The Dragons of Eden) (at AmazonSmile: benefit a non-profit of your choice by shopping*)
• Ivan Turgenev (Fathers and Sons) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Maud Howe Elliott (The Life of Julia Ward Howe) (at AmazonSmile*)
• James Schuyler (The Morning of the Poem) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Alistair Horne (The Age of Napoleon) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Ronald Harwood (The Dresser) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Marina Warner (Once Upon a 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 (8 November) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (8 November) to…

• Bram Stoker (Dracula) (at AmazonSmile: benefit a non-profit of your choice by shopping*)
• Margaret Mitchell (Gone with the Wind) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Kazuo Ishiguro (The Remains of the Day) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Sarah Fielding (The Governess, or The Little Female Academy) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Cedric Belfrage (Seeds of Destruction) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Martha Gellhorn (The Face of War) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Ben Bova (Grand Tour series) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Timothy Egan (The Worst Hard Time) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Jeffrey Ford (The Well-Built City trilogy) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Joshua Ferris (Then We Came to an End) (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 (7 November) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (7 November) to…

• Albert Camus (The Stranger) (at AmazonSmile: benefit a non-profit of your choice by shopping*)
• Lawrence Durrell (The Alexandria Quartet) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Margaret Leech (Reveille in Washington) (at AmazonSmile*)
• R.A. Lafferty (Past Master) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Armstrong Sperry (Call It Courage) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Tom Peters (In Search of Excellence) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Guy Gavriel Kay (Ysabel) (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. To support this or other organizations, begin your Amazon shopping from a link on their sites: Amazon.com (Smile.Amazon.com)

Happy bookish birthdays (6 November) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (6 November) to…

• James Jones (From Here to Eternity) (at AmazonSmile: benefit a non-profit of your choice by shopping*)
• Michael Cunningham (The Hours) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Zig Ziglar (See You at the Top) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Jonas Lie (The Pilot and His Wife) (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)