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Free stuff Thu, 04 Sep 2008 21:30:18
Book cover via Amazon FYI, for those interested in these sorts of things: Women on the Web, an online women’s magazine, is giving away a beach bag containing an autographed copy of Jane Green’s The Beach House, Lancaster sunscreen products and a custom beach towel to five lucky readers. addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fcollectedmiscellany.com%2F2008%2F09%2Ffree-stuff%2F’; addthis_title = [...]
Constellation Thu, 04 Sep 2008 16:34:42
I hope this means more books available for Kindle and available on the publication date. I seem to have looked at a few books who were not available on the Kindle until after the hardback had been released. Might have something to do with the publisher’s profit on each item. I would love to see digital [...]
Lamplighter (Monster Blood Tattoo, Book 2) by D.M. Cornish Thu, 04 Sep 2008 16:00:32
Book cover via Amazon Way back in May when I saw that the second book in the Monster Blood Tattoo series by D.M. Cornish, the sequel to Foundling, was being released I was excited. But I will admit that I was a little nervous when I saw that Lamplighter was such a large tome (over 700 [...]

Obama's con

Great Blogger Headlines Sun, 07 Sep 2008 01:30:17
Fisking Obama on his ridiculous attacks on Sarah Palin is like shooting fish in a barrel, but I wanted to draw your attention to two of my favorite responses. Ace has a long but effective title to his post: Extremely Confused Would-Be Commander-in-Chief Launches “Harshest Attack Yet” on Woman Who’s Not Technically Even His Opponent Ace links to [...]
Obama’s false bravado on change Sun, 07 Sep 2008 00:54:00
Obama has clearly decided to run a campaign against President Bush. And he has also lost any sense of shame. He is constantly accusing his opponents of things that apply equally, or even more so, to himself. Take today: “Don’t be fooled,” a particularly punchy Obama told a crowd this morning at a town hall meeting [...]
Obama continues to smear opponents Sat, 06 Sep 2008 19:02:40
Obama goes back to the “they will try to scare you” complaint: “I know that I’m not your typical presidential candidate,” Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., told executives and employees of the Schott glass company Friday afternoon, “and I just want to be honest with you. I know that.” “And I know that the temptation is to say, [...]

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Selling Books on The Corner

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I am a fan of National Review Online (heck I have even written for them). I subscribe to NRODT and NR Digital. I enjoy The Corner as a place to keep up with current events and to see what NR writers think about said events. In the past I really haven’t minded their constant pushing of various servious (like NR Digital) because if that is what it takes to keep it going I understand. Recently, however, I have gotten a bit tired of the constant urging to buy this or sign up for that. Ms. Lopez has gone off the deep end with Rich Lowry’s new book. Practically every other post she makes is none-too-subtle admonition to buy the book. One post last night had 11 links to buy the book!

I wouldn’t mind it if once or twice a day she mentioned it but all day every few minutes is a bit much. I certainly don’t mind Rich discussing it and linking to it as part of that discussion either but just “Buy the Book” over and over again gets old real quick. Just needed to get that off my chest.

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One Response to “Selling Books on The Corner”

Mitchell Muncy on October 16th, 2003 10:38 am

Given your comments, I don’t suppose I could persuade you to mention the Spence Publishing $5 on your blog. Many thanks for your purchase, by the way.

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