Happy bookish birthdays (30 June) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (30 June) to…

• Winston Graham (the Poldark series) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Barry Hines (A Kestrel for a Knave) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Dave Duncan (The Seventh Sword series) (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 (29 June) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (29 June) to…

• Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (The Little Prince) (at AmazonSmile: benefit a non-profit of your choice by shopping*)
• John Toland (The Rising Sun) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Brian Herbert (Navigators of Dune) (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 (28 June) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (28 June ) to…

• Esther Forbes (Johnny Tremain) (at AmazonSmile: benefit a non-profit of your choice by shopping*)
• Mark Helprin (Winter’s Tale) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Bette Greene (Summer of My German Soldier) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Eric Ambler (Passage of Arms) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Robert Asprin (the Myth-Adventures series) (at AmazonSmile*)
• A.E. Hotchner (King of the Hill) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Janelle Taylor (the Moondust 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 (27 June) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (27 June) to…

• Catherine Cookson (The Cinder Path) (at AmazonSmile: benefit a non-profit of your choice by shopping*)
• Helen Keller (The Story of My Life) (at AmazonSmile*)
• E.R. Braithwaite (To Sir, With Love) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Alice McDermott (Charming Billy) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Paul Laurence Dunbar (The Sport of the Gods) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Peter Maas (Serpico) (at AmazonSmile*)
• James P. Hogan (Inherit the Stars) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Lucille Clifton (Blessing the Boats) (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 June) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (26 June) to…

• Pearl S. Buck (The Good Earth) (at AmazonSmile: benefit a non-profit of your choice by shopping*)
• Walter Farley (The Black Stallion series) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Lev Grossman (The Magicians series) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Charlotte Zolotow (Mr. Rabbit and the Lovely Present) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Laurie Lee (Cider with Rosie) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Nancy Willard (A Visit to William Blake’s Inn) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Colin Wilson (The Mind Parasites) (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 (25 June) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (25 June) to…

• George Orwell (1984) (at AmazonSmile: benefit a non-profit of your choice by shopping*)
• Dorothy Gilman (the Mrs. Pollifax series) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Yann Martel (Life of Pi) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Eric Carle (The Very Hungry Caterpillar) (at AmazonSmile*)
• A.J. Quinnell (Man on Fire) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Erskine Childers (The Riddle of the Sands) (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 (24 June) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (24 June) to…

• Lawrence Block (the Matthew Scudder series) (at AmazonSmile: benefit a non-profit of your choice by shopping*)
• Kathryn Lasky (Guardians of Ga’Hoole series) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Mary Wesley (The Camomile Lawn) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Anita Desai (Fire on the Mountain) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Fred Hoyle (October the First Is Too Late) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Mercedes Lackey (the Valdemar series) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Ambrose Bierce (The Devil’s Dictionary) (at AmazonSmile*)
• John Ciardi (Good Words to You) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Forrest Reid (Following Darkness) (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 (23 June) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (23 June) to…

• Richard Bach (Jonathan Livingston Seagull) (at AmazonSmile: benefit a non-profit of your choice by shopping*)
• Jerry Ahern (The Survivalist series) (at AmazonSmile*) [I read the Survivalist series when I managed a bookstore and suggested to my employees that they read at least one book from every section. I asked regulars for recommendations, and someone recommended The Survivalist to me in what was then labeled (not my choice) “Men’s Adventure”. It turned out to have one of my favorite plot developments I’ve encountered in any novel/series… I was really impressed!]
• Hugh Howey (The Silo series) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Nikolai Tolstoy (The Coming of the King) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Kenneth C. Flint (A Storm Upon Ulster) (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 (22 June) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (22 June) to…

• Octavia E. Butler (Kindred) (at AmazonSmile: benefit a non-profit of your choice by shopping*)
• H. Rider Haggard (King Solomon’s Mines) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Dan Brown (The Da Vinci Code) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Erich Maria Remarque (All Quiet on the Western Front) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Anne Morrow Lindbergh (Gift from the Sea) (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 June) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (21 June) to…

• Mary McCarthy (The Group) (at AmazonSmile: benefit a non-profit of your choice by shopping*)
• Jean-Paul Sartre (Being and Nothingness) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Berkeley Breathed (the Bloom County series) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Ian McEwan (The Child in Time) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Henry Taylor (The Flying Change) (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)