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Want a Bestseller? Write About God…or Something…

Taken with my smudgy phone camera on my way through our local big-chain bookstore. What a menagerie! Pictured:

A New Earth
Eckhart Tolle’s popular Easternish mystic self-help catechism.
The Shack
Written by William P. Young and recommended by everyone I know, and their cousin. No less than Eugene Peterson, for crying out loud, compares this to Pilgrim’s Progress! All right, […]

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Books Are Not Widgets

Books are not widgets. Books are a part of our culture and should be treated as such. Making them into throw away goods is bound to lead to disaster. The best way to handle books is like how we should handle food: small scale and local.
 — Jenn, gleefully watching Borders go bust at A Bookseller’s Tale
But books can […]

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