The Reading Spree

Flipping pages and finding common denominators

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  • Snippets #2.

    For this week’s Snippets, we have the following awesome online reads, tweets and news bites (oh, found a few stragglers, too): I regret not looking for him when I was at the Saigon Main Post Office! The Man Who Writes Love Letters: A Day with Saigon’s Last Public Letter Writer, Fiona Ehiers, Spiegel Online International, March 7, 2007…

  • I’m making up for this blog’s unintentional two-month silence with a few entries (which I’m working on right now!), along with a new weekly (well, hopefully) update called Snippets. Snippets will contain links to interesting book-, reading- and publishing-related online articles and blogs, found via my RSS feed and social media (mainly Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn).…

  • Apologies for letting things go quiet over here at The Reading Spree yet again. July and August gave me a strict diet of projects, meetings and deadlines; it has become rare for me to have a few hours to kill and do whatever I want. It’s great because it means there’s constant work, but once…

  • I’ve already written about VVG Something (including why we went there, how we got there and what we saw), so I won’t rehash all of that here. And nearly a month after I wrote that blog entry, I finally got to do some research on the titles we saw that day. We found this group of books…

  • [There’s a part of me that doesn’t really want to hit the “Publish” button for this blog entry, and for one very selfish reason: if I write about it, then more people will come and I’ll have less books to choose from. 😉 Then again, people deserve to know about awesome (secondhand) book sales like…