Happy bookish birthdays (17 October) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (17 October) to…

• Elonor Glyn (Three Weeks) (at AmazonSmile: benefit a non-profit of your choice by shopping*)
• Nathanael West (The Day of the Locust) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Kris Calvin (One Murder More). Note: Kris is my sibling…but OMM is a well-reviewed, award-winning book (at AmazonSmile*)
• Jimmy Breslin (The Gang That Couldn’t Shoot Straight (at AmazonSmile*)
• Ester Wier (The Loner) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Alan Garner (The Weirdstone of Brisingamen) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Arthur Miller (The Crucible) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Sumner Locke Elliott (Careful, He Might Hear You) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Miguel Delibes (Cinco Horas con Mario) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Robert Jordan (Wheel of Time) (at AmazonSmile*)
• George MacKay Brown (Beside the Ocean of Time) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Randall Munroe (What If?) (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 (16 October) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (16 October) to…

• Oscar Wilde (The Picture of Dorian Gray) (at AmazonSmile: benefit a non-profit of your choice*)
• Günter Grass (The Tin Drum) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Olivia Coolidge (Greek Myths) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Paul Monette (Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Lorenzo Carcaterra (Sleepers) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Meg Rosoff (How I Live Now) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Marc Levy (If Only It Were True) (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 (15 October) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (15 October) to…

• P.G. Wodehouse (Bertie Wooster and Jeeves) (at AmazonSmile: benefit a non-profit of your choice by shopping*)
• Mario Puzo (The Godfather) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Virgil (The Aeneid) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Ed McBain (87th Precinct) (at AmazonSmile*)
• S.S. Dine (Philo Vance) (at AmazonSmile*)
• James H. Schmitz (The Witches of Karras) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Italo Calvino (Invisible Cities) (at AmazonSmile*)
• E.C. Tubb (the Dumarest series) (at AmazonSmile*)
• George Turner (The Sea and Summer) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Laurie McBain (Devil’s Desire) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Walter Jon Williams (Praxis) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Emma Chichester Clark (Blue Kangaroo) (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 October) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (14 October) to…

• e.e. cummings (Tulips and Chimneys) (at AmazonSmile: benefit a non-profit of your choice by shopping*)
• Richard Christian Matheson (Scars and Other Distinguishing Marks (at AmazonSmile* Note: not Richard Matheson of I Am Legend)
• Katherine Mansfield (The Garden Party) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Vernon Lee (Hauntings) (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 (13 October) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (13 October) to…

• Mollie Katzen (The Moosewood Cookbook) (at AmazonSmile: benefit a non-profit of your choice by shopping*)
• Lincoln Child (the Pendergast series) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Colin Channer (Waiting in Vain) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Conrad Richter (The Town) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Albert Jay Nock (The Myth of a Guilty Nation) (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 October) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (12 October) to…

• Lester Dent (Doc Savage) (at AmazonSmile: benefit a non-profit of your choice by shopping*)
• Ann Petry (The Street) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Aleister Crowley (Moonchild) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Louis Hémon (Maria Chapdelaine) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Ling Ding (AKA Ding Ling, Ting Ling) (The Suns Shines Over The Sanggan River) (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 October) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (11 October) to…

• Elmore Leonard (Get Shorty) (at AmazonSmile: benefit a non-profit of your choice by shopping*)
• James M. McPherson (Battle Cry of Freedom) (at AmazonSmile*)
• William R. Fortschen (The Alexandrian Ring) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Daniel Quinn (Ishmael) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Arthur Hoey “Steele Rudd” Davis (On Our Selection) (at AmazonSmile*)
• G.C. Edmondson (The Ship That Sailed the Timestream) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Doris Piserchia (Spaceling) (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 (10 October) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (10 October) to…

• Nora Roberts (AKA J.D. Robb, Sarah Hardesty) (Survivor in Death) (at AmazonSmile: benefit a non-profit of your choice by shopping*)
• James Clavell (Shōgun) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Claude Simon (The Acacia) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Lily Tuck (The News from Paraguay) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Frederick Bartelme (Bob the Gambler) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Anne Mather (AKA Caroline Fleming, Cardine Fleming) (Leopard in the Snow) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Max Ehrlich (The Reincarnation of Peter Proud) (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 October) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (9 October) to…

• Belva Plain (Evergreen) (at AmazonSmile: benefit a non-profit of your choice by shopping*)
• Bruce Catton (A Stillness at Appomattox) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Ivo Andrić (The Bridge on the Drina) (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 October) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (8 October) to…

• R.L. Stine (Goosebumps) (at AmazonSmile: benefit a non-profit of your choice by shopping*)
• Henry Fielding (The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Frank Herbert (Dune) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Richard S. Shaver (I Remember Lemuria) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Walter Lord (A Night to Remember) (at AmazonSmile*)
• William Corlett (The Magician’s House quartet) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Shane Stevens (Dead City) (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)