Happy bookish birthdays (31 January) to…
- Zane Grey (Riders of the Purple Sage) (at AmazonSmile: benefit a non-profit of your choice by shopping*)
- John O’Hara (Butterfield 8) (at AmazonSmile*)
- Norman Mailer (The Executioner’s Song) (at AmazonSmile*)
- Denise Fleming (In the Tall, Tall Grass) (at AmazonSmile*)
- Alan Lomax (The Land Where the Blues Began) (at AmazonSmile*)
- Thomas Merton (The Seven Storey Mountain) (at AmazonSmile*)
- Gene DeWeese (The Calvin Nullifier) (at AmazonSmile*)
- Gerald McDermott (Anansi the Spider) (at AmazonSmile*)
- Daniel Tammet (Born on a Blue Day) (at AmazonSmile*)
- Rynn Berry (Famous Vegetarians and Their Favorite Recipes) (at AmazonSmile*)
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All aboard The Measured Circle’s Geek Time Trip at The History Project!
* 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. 
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