Happy bookish birthdays (17 May) to… F. Paul Wilson (the Repairman Jack series) Gary Paulsen (Hatchet) Grace Lin (Where the Mountain Meets the Moon) Dorothy Richardson (the Pilgrimage 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. To support this or other organizations, begin your Amazon shopping from a link on their sites: Amazon.com (Smile.Amazon.com ..read more

Happy bookish birthdays (16 May) to… Margret Rey (Curious George) Studs Terkel (Working) Bruce Coville (I Was a Sixth Grade Alien) Pierre Gilliard (13 Years at the Russian Court) 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. To support this or other organizations, begin your Amazon shopping from a link on their sites: Amazon.com ..read more

Happy bookish birthdays (15 May) to… L. Frank Baum (the Wizard of Oz series) Katherine Anne Porter (Ship of Fools) Mikhail Bulgakov (The Master and Margarita) Nancy Garden (Annie on My Mind) Paul Zindel (The Zone Unknown series) Max Frisch (Man in the Holocene) Dave Wolverton (On My Way to Paradise) 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. To support this or other organizations ..read more

Happy bookish birthdays (13 May) to… Daphne Du Maurier (Rebecca) Francine Pascal (Sweet Valley High series) Roger Zelazny (the Amber series) Bruce Chatwin (In Patagonia) Armistead Maupin (Tales of the City) Stephen R. Donaldson (the Thomas Covenant series) Leighton Gage (the Mario Silva 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

Happy bookish birthdays (14 May) to… Eoin Colfer (Artemis Fowl) Edwin L. Arnold (Gullivar of Mars) Anna Laurens Dawes (How We Are Governed) George Selden (The Cricket in Times Square) George Lucas (Star Wars) Robert Greene (The 48 Laws of Power) Hal Borland (Book of Days) 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. To support this or other organizations, begin your Amazon shopping from ..read more

Happy bookish birthdays (12 May) to… Leslie Charteris (The Saint series) Albert Murray (Stomping the Blues) Edward Lear (The Owl and the Pussy-Cat) Heather Rose Jones (the Alpennia series) Farley Mowat (Never Cry Wolf) Barry B. Longyear (Circus World 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

Happy bookish birthdays (10 May) to… Barbara Taylor Bradford (A Woman of Substance) Bel Kaufman (Up the Down Staircase) John Scalzi (Old Man’s War series) Olaf Stapledon (Last and First Men) Wayne Dyer (Your Erroneous Zones) T. Berry Brazelton (What Every Baby Knows) Jon Ronson (The Men Who Stare at Goats) Terrance Dicks (Doctor Who and the Abominable Snowmen) Caroline B. Cooney (the Vampire’s Promise 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 Skil ..read more

Happy bookish birthdays (9 May) to… J.M. Barrie (Peter Pan)“Wendy knew that she most grow up. You always know after you are two. Two is the beginning of the end.”–J.M. Barrie, writing in Peter Pan, collected in  The Mind Boggles: A Unique Book of Quotations  by me  Richard Adams (Watership Down) Alan Bennett (The Uncommon Reader) Roger Hargreaves (Mr. Men and Little Miss series) William Tenn (Of Men and Monsters) Richard Cowper (The Custodians) William Moulton Marston (Emotions of Normal People) Join thousands of readers and try the free ILMK magazine at Flipboa ..read more

Happy bookish birthdays (8 May) to… Thomas Pynchon (Gravity’s Rainbow) Peter Benchley (Jaws) Pat Barker (the Regeneration trilogy) Mary Q. Steele (Journey Outside) Sloan Wilson (The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit) Naomi Klein (No Logo) Roddy Doyle (the Barrytown trilogy) Bernard Newman (The Spy at No. 10) Margarete Böhme (The Diary of a Lost Girl) Paul Tabori (The Natural History of Stupidity) Edmund Wilson (To the Finland Station) Robin Jarvis (the Dancing Jax series) Join thousands of readers and try the free ILMK magazine at Flipboard! All aboard The Measured Circle’s Geek Ti ..read more

Happy bookish birthdays (7 May) to… Peter Carey (Oscar and Lucinda) Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (Heat and Dust) Gene Wolfe (The Book of the New Sun) Angela Carter (Heroes and Villains) Peter Carey (Oscar and Lucinda) Michael Rosen (Michael Rosen’s Sad Book) 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