@balletbookworm Love your #fridayreads! I just finished POISONWOOD & am huge fan of Iris Murdoch.
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Submitted by Swapna Krishna on Fri, 03/12/2010 - 10:34am
DC Events 3/12/10 - 3/18/10
This week, Gina Welch, Helen Simonsen, James McGrath Morris, Karl Rove and Kelly Corrigan are just some of the wonderful authors with events in in the DC area.
Submitted by Jenna Schnuer on Wed, 03/10/2010 - 11:54am 
The Lunatic Express: Discovering the World . . . via Its Most Dangerous Buses, Boats, Trains, and Planes by Carl Hoffman
At $2, the 1.5 hour bus ride from Quito up to the mountain town of Otvalo, Ecuador sounded like one of the world's best travel bargains. The seats were comfortable enough. The bus was clean. But before the bus pulled out of the terminal, the driver turned on the trip's entertainment: Black Hawk Down (at top volume). First, a slow crawl through Quito—the heavy smell of emissions made a fine companion to the movie—and, then, we raced up the mountain roads. The bus driver swerved into the other lane to pass slower buses--those that were only going two times the speed limit. I got off the bus a stop early, badly in need of the headache-fighting powers of a Coke.
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Submitted by Bethanne on Mon, 03/08/2010 - 10:49am A Conversation with Philip Pomper
In my last post, I talked about history's losers. Vladimir Ilyich Ulanov, known to history as "Lenin," cannot properly be called a loser or a winner, but he can be deemed a Person of Significance.
Any book knowledge I previously had of Lenin was confined to my experience as an undergraduate political-science major (I did see plenty of his busts in Eastern Europe when I lived in Soviet-era Germany!). I wasn't at all sure what to expect when I picked up "Lenin's Brother: The Origins of the October Revolution" (Norton) by Philip Pomper, a professor of history at Wesleyan University.
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