Happy bookish birthdays (9 March) to…
- Mickey Spillane (Mike Hammer series) (at AmazonSmile: benefit a non-profit of your choice by shopping*)
- Vita Sackville-West (The Land) (at AmazonSmile*) (note: Sackvile-West also inspired other authors’ work, including Virginia Woolf’s Orlando)
- Peter Scholl-Latour (Death in the Rice Fields) (at AmazonSmile*)
- Keri Hulme (AKA Kai Tainui) (The Bone People) (at AmazonSmile*)
- Bobby Fischer (Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess) (at AmazonSmile*) “Bobby Fischer is a man obsessed with the game of chess. When someone talks to him about another subject, he will listen impatiently and then demand, ‘But what has that got to do with chess?'”–John A. Keel writing in The Eighth Tower, collected in The Mind Boggles: A Unique Book of Quotations (at AmazonSmile: benefit a non-profit of your choice by shopping*) by me 😉
- William Cobbett (Rural Rides) (at AmazonSmile*)
- David Pogue (The Missing Manual series) (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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