Happy bookish birthdays (15 December) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (15 December) to…

• Betty Smith (A Tree Grows in Brooklyn)
• Edna O’Brien (Saints and Sinners)
• Robert Charles Wilson (Spin)

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Happy bookish birthdays (14 December) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (14 December) to…

• Shirley Jackson (The Lottery)
• Mary Tappan Wright (The Test)
• Wade Davis (The Serpent and the Rainbow)
• Kelley Armstrong (The Women of the Otherworld series)
• Anne Conway (The Principles of the Most Ancient and Modern Philosophy)

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Bufo’s Alexa Skills

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Happy bookish birthdays (13 December) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (13 December) to…

• Ross MacDonald (the Lew Archer series)
• R.A. MacAvoy (The Book of Kells)
• Emily Carr (Klee Wyck)
• Alan Bullock (Hitler: A Study in Tyranny)

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Happy bookish birthdays (12 December) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (12 December) to…

• Gustav Flaubert (Madam Bovary)
• Sophie Kinsella (the Shopaholic series)
• Tim Pratt (The Strange Adventures of Rangergirl)
• Paul Elmer More (the Shelburne Essays)
• Patrick O’Brian (Aubrey-Maturin series)
• Peter Bergen (Drone Wars)

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Happy bookish birthdays (11 December) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (11 December) to…

• Rachel Renée Russell (Dork Diaries)
• Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (The Gulag Archipelago)
• Jim Harrison (Legends of the Fall)
• Thomas McGuane (Ninety-Two in the Shade)

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Happy bookish birthdays (10 December) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (10 December) to…

• George MacDonald (The Princess and the Goblin) 
• Rumer Godden (Black Narcissus)
• Cornelia Funke (Inkheart)
• Philip R. Craig (Martha’s Vineyard mysteries)
• Jacquelyn Mitchard (The Deep End of the Ocean)

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Happy bookish birthdays (9 December) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (9 December) to…

• Jean de Brunhoff (Babar)
• Ashleigh Brilliant (I Have Abandoned My Search for Truth, and Am Now Looking for A Good Fantasy) 
• Eloise Jarvis McGraw (Moccasin Trail)
• Joe McGinniss (Fatal Vision)
• Joanna Trollope (AKA Caroline Harvey) (A Village Affair)
• Joel Chandler Harris (Uncle Remus)
• Laura Goodman Salverson (Immortal Rock: The Saga of the Kensington Stone)

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Bufo’s Alexa Skills

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Happy bookish birthdays (8 December) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (8 December) to…

• Mary Gordon (The Company of Women)
• Rob Byrnes (When the Stars Come Out)
• John Banville (The Sea)
• Mark Steyn (America Alone)
• Amanda McKittrick Ros (Irene Iddesleigh)
• Aaron Allston (Star Wars Legends series)
• Bill McKibben (The End of Nature)

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Happy bookish birthdays (7 December) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (7 December) to…

• Willa Cather (O Pioneers!)
• Tatamkhulu Afrika (Bitter Eden)
• Joyce Cary (The Horse’s Mouth
• Leigh Brackett (The Sword of Rhiannon)
• Christopher Nicole (AKA Peter Grange, Andrew York, Robin Cade, Mark Logan, Christina Nicholson, Alison York, Leslie Arlen, Robin Nicholson, C.R. Nicholson, Daniel Adams, Simon McKay, Caroline Gray and Alan Savage) (McGann saga series)
• Rosemary Rogers (Sweet Savage Love)
• Susan Isaacs (Shining Through)
• Anne Fine (The Tulip Touch)

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Happy bookish birthdays (6 December) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (6 December) to…

• Linda Barnes (Carlotta Carlyle series) 
• Joyce Kilmer (Trees)
• Osbert Sitwell (Scarlet Tree)
• Sylvia Townsend Warner (Lolly Willowes)
• Elizabeth Yates (Amos Fortune, Free Man)

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Bufo’s Alexa Skills

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