Happy bookish birthdays (19 February) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (19 February) to…

• Carson McCullers (The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter)
• Helen Fielding (Bridget Jones series)
• Jeff Kinney (Diary of a Wimpy Kid series)
• Amy Tan (The Joy Luck Club)
• Laurell K. Hamilton (the Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series)
• Kay Boyle (The White Horses of Vienna)
• Jonathan Lethem (Motherless Brooklyn)
• Marissa Meyer (the Lunar Chronicles series)
• Lee Harding (The Fallen Spaceman)
• Ryū Murakami (Almost Transparent Blue)
• Terry Carr (editor, The Best Science Fiction of the Year series)
• Donald F. Glut (The Dinosaur Scrapbook)

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Happy bookish birthdays (18 February) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (18 February) to…

• Toni Morrison (Beloved)
• Jean M. Auel (The Clan of the Cave Bear)
• Wallace Stegner (Angle of Repose)
• Helen Gurley Brown (Sex and the Single Girl)
• Len Deighton (The Ipcress File)
• Nikos Kazantzakis (Zorba the Greek)

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Bufo’s Alexa Skills

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Happy bookish birthdays (17 February) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (17 February) to…

• Andre Norton (Witch World series)
• Margaret Truman (Capital Crime series)
• Chaim Potok (The Chosen)
• Ruth Rendell (Inspector Wexford series)
• Margaret St. Clair (The Shadow People)
• Mo Yan (Red Sorghum)

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Happy bookish birthdays (16 February) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (16 February) to…

• Iain Banks (the Culture series)
• Natalie Angier (Natural Obsessions)
• Richard Ford (The Sportswriter)
• Henry Adams (Democracy: An American Novel)
• Nikolai Leskov (Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk)

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Happy bookish birthdays (15 February) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (15 February) to…

• Gregory McDonald (the Fletch series)
• Douglas Hofstadter (Gödel, Escher, Bach)
• Jack Dann (The Memory Cathedral)
• Sax Rohmer (the Fu Manchu series)
• Susan Brownmiller (Against Our Will)
• Elizabeth Knox (Dreamhunter)
• Norman Bridwell (Clifford the Big Red Dog series)
• George Mikes (How to Be an Alien)

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Happy bookish birthdays (14 February) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (14 February) to…

• Carl Bernstein (All the President’s Men)
• Meg Tilly (Porcupine)
• Gwyneth Jones (North Wind)
• Frank Harris (My Life and Loves)

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Happy bookish birthdays (13 February) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (13 February) to…

• Georges Simenon (Inspector Maigret series)
• Lloyd C. Douglas (The Robe)
• Chuck Yeager (Yeager)

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Happy bookish birthdays (12 February) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (12 February) to…

• Judy Blume (Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing)
• Juanita Coulson (the Children of the Stars series)
• George Meredith (The Egoist)
• Donald Kingsbury (Courtship Rite)

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Happy bookish birthdays (11 February) to..

Happy bookish birthdays (11 February) to…

• Sidney Sheldon (The Other Side of Midnight)
• Jane Yolen (The Devil’s Arithmetic)
• Mo Willems (Elephant and Piggie series)
• Lydia Maria Child (Hobomok)
• Rachilde (Monsieur Vénus)
• Joy Williams (The Quick and the Dead)
• Daniel F. Galouye (Simulacron-3)
• Patrick Leigh Fermor (A Time of Gifts)

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Happy bookish birthdays (10 February) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (10 February) to…

• E.L. Konigsburg (From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler) (at AmazonSmile: benefit a non-profit of your choice by shopping*)
• Boris Pasternak (Doctor Zhivago) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Alex Comfort (The Joy of Sex) (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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never you want)…and the good feeling you’ll get.  Shop ’til you help!  

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