Happy bookish birthdays (3 May) to… Niccolò Machiavelli (The Prince) May Sarton (Journal of a Solitude) Dodie Smith (The Hundred and One Dalmatians) William Inge (Come Back, Little Sheba) Rick DeMarinis (Scimitar) [I’ve been surprised that Scimitar wasn’t more successful and isn’t better known. “You know what freedom is? Freedom is the ability to choose between French toast and flapjacks in the dining car of a train plummeting from a high trestle over a ravine hundreds of feet below. That’s what freedom is. Big fat deal.”–Skylor Blue, Scimitar] Join thousands of readers and try the free  ..read more

Happy bookish birthdays (2 May) to… Martha Grimes (the Richard Jury mysteries) E.E. Doc Smith (the Lensman series) Charlotte Armstrong (A Dram of Poison) Dr. Benjamin Spock, MD (Dr. Spock’s Baby & Child Care) Jerome K. Jerome (Three Men in a Boat) Join thousands of readers and try the free ILMK magazine at Flipboard! All aboard The Measured Circle’s Geek Time Trip at The History Project! Bufo’s Alexa Skills This post by Bufo Calvin originally appeared in the I Love My Kindle blog.  ..read more

Happy bookish birthdays (1 May) to… Joseph Heller (Catch-22) Catherine Bybee (First Wives series) Marcel Prévost (Remembrance of Things Past) Terry Southern (The Magic Christian) Terry Goodkind (Wizard’s First Rule) Join thousands of readers and try the free ILMK magazine at Flipboard! All aboard The Measured Circle’s Geek Time Trip at The History Project! Bufo’s Alexa Skills This post by Bufo Calvin originally appeared in the I Love My Kindle blog.  ..read more

Happy bookish birthdays (30 April) to… Larry Niven (Ringworld) Annie Dillard (Pilgrim at Tinker Creek) P.C. Cast (House of Night series) Bruce Jay Friedman (About Harry Townes) Join thousands of readers and try the free ILMK magazine at Flipboard! All aboard The Measured Circle’s Geek Time Trip at The History Project! Bufo’s Alexa Skills This post by Bufo Calvin originally appeared in the I Love My Kindle blog.  ..read more

Happy bookish birthdays (29 April) to… Rafael Sabatini (Scaramouche) Jack Williamson (The Humanoids) Edward Blishen (The God Beneath the Sea) Elmer Kelton (Buffalo Soldiers) Jill Paton Walsh (Knowledge of Angels) Robert J. Sawyer (The Terminal Experiment) Join thousands of readers and try the free ILMK magazine at Flipboard! All aboard The Measured Circle’s Geek Time Trip at The History Project! Bufo’s Alexa Skills This post by Bufo Calvin originally appeared in the I Love My Kindle blog.  ..read more

Happy bookish birthdays (28 April) to… Harper Lee (To Kill a Mockingbird) Roberto Bolaño (2666) Alistair MacLean (Ice Station Zebra) Lois Duncan (I Know What You Did Last Summer) Terry Pratchett (the Discworld series) Alice Waters (the Chez Panisse cookbook series) Ian Rankin (the Inspector Rebus series) Will Murray (the Wild Adventures of Doc Savage series) Jennifer Rardin (the Jaz Parks series) Sam Merwin Jr. (The House of Many Worlds) Join thousands of readers and try the free ILMK magazine at Flipboard! All aboard The Measured Circle’s Geek Time Trip at The Histo ..read more

Happy bookish birthdays (27 April) to… Ludwig Bemelmans (Madeline) (at AmazonSmile: benefit a non-profit of your choice by shopping*) Mary Wollstonecraft (A Vindication of the Rights of Women) (at AmazonSmile*) [note: this is not Mary Shelley who wrote Frankenstein…this is that author’s parent] August Wilson (the Pittsburgh Cycle) Jessie Redmon Fauset (Plum Bun) Ruth Glick (AKA Rebecca York) (the Moon series) Frank Belknap Long (the John Carstairs series) Irving Adler (The New Mathematics) Helen Hodgman (Jack and Jill) Tim LaHaye (the Left Behind series) Join thousands of readers and try the ..read more

Happy bookish birthdays (25 April) to… Maud Hart Lovelace (the Betsy-Tacy series) Walter de la Mare (The Return) Melvin Burgess (Junk) Join thousands of readers and try the free ILMK magazine at Flipboard! All aboard The Measured Circle’s Geek Time Trip at The History Project! Bufo’s Alexa Skills This post by Bufo Calvin originally appeared in the I Love My Kindle blog.  ..read more

Happy bookish birthdays (24 April) to… Sue Grafton (Kinsey Millhone alphabet mysteries) Elizabeth Goudge (The Little White Horse) David Morrell (First Blood) Anthony Trollope (the Chronicles of Barsetshire series) Robert Penn Warren (All the King’s Men) Join thousands of readers and try the free ILMK magazine at Flipboard! All aboard The Measured Circle’s Geek Time Trip at The History Project! Bufo’s Alexa Skills This post by Bufo Calvin originally appeared in the I Love My Kindle blog.  ..read more

Happy bookish birthdays (22 April) to… Janet Evanovich (the Stephanie Plum series) Henry Fielding (Tom Jones) Vladimir Nabokov (Lolita) Ellen Glasgow (The Deliverance) Chuck Wendig (the Miriam Black series) Join thousands of readers and try the free ILMK magazine at Flipboard! All aboard The Measured Circle’s Geek Time Trip at The History Project! Bufo’s Alexa Skills This post by Bufo Calvin originally appeared in the I Love My Kindle blog.  ..read more