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The Texan Spirit

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How to get smart : Bring BQC back

This is a Google-dependent world. What you don’t know is on the World Wide Web, and it’s yours for the searching. And when all knowledge is right there at your fingertips, available with a few taps on the keyboard and a few clicks of the mouse, is there then, any need to store it in […]

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The Great Big Book Give Away

Love books ? Reading your idea of heaven ? Think nothing is better than a good book ? Well then, welcome to the club ! Yup, there’s a club for that. It’s on Facebook, and it lists numerous books and how you can get them for free. No, no catch, no tricks, no reading the […]

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Book GiveAway : Caleb’s Crossing by Geraldine Brooks

Geraldine Brooks is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of March and The New York Times bestseller, People of the Book. Her fourth and newest novel is CALEB’S CROSSING (Viking; On sale, May 3, 2011). Thanks to the publisher, I’ll be giving away 2 galleys of the book. If you’d like to enter the draw, please email […]

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500 days of summer

Yes, the movie isn’t all that, but oh, this song ! Joseph Gordon-Levitt, a young non-practicing architect in love with the girl of his dreams dancing to this classic Hall & Oates number, on what looks like a wonderful summer’s day – here’s the song : [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2seAJsrtIbQ?fs=1]

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Music : The age of retro

When it comes to music, I do think that the old-timers knew what they were doing. Classic music that can be listened to again and again; unforgettable is what I mean. I still remember coming home from school on hot afternoons and hearing the AkashVani RJ’s (did we even call them RJs back then ?) melodious, […]

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