Category: Reading
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Horrors! I Almost Forgot Whose Birthday It Is Today!
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Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 22264 – 781: Here’s the haps: A lot of long-time followers and some others will know that I love to read. I have a varied, sometimes eclectic taste in reading. The fact that I have just finished a book in the horror genre may surprise a few,…
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Not Feeling Particularly Clever Tonight so There Will Be No Title
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Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 22182 – 752: Dear Fans, Friends, Fiends, Foes, Foundlings, Frogs, Foundling Frogs, Freaks, and Flakes, Here’s the haps: The last few days at work have been really worky and so I have been sharing some things I have had saved, including some that are from the pre-blog…
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Tag Me Tuesday – Jasmine Rose At Bookworm Asks:
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Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 22173 – 743: Regular readers know by now how I feel about most of the “awards” that are given around the internet. Not a big fan at all but sometimes the questions are fun or interesting or thought-provoking and I will do the questions from it. Such…
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Happy Birthday Billy S
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Word of the day · Todaybardolatry[bärˈdälətrē]NOUNhumorousexcessive admiration of Shakespeare. Forsooth! Canst one tell the day? The time? Of a truth, today is “Talk Like Shakespeare Day” and if thou wouldst indulge me in a small bit of bardolatry I will shortly relate, if it be not long, how I came…
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Children’s Classics?
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As I sat reading The Cat in the Hat Comes Back to the grandson who lives here I realized that this Cat person is really nothing more than a vandal. And while he may not fit the complete definition of a bully his clearly boorish behavior absolutely categorizes him as…
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A Note About Writing
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I was over at The Dumbest Blog Ever (which seems to me to be increasingly misnamed) and read a three-part western story he had written called Shooter and the Kid. He had based it on a twenty-five hundred year old Greek tragedy called Philoctetes by Sophocles. I recognized the name…
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Tag-Me Tuesday: The Perfect Book Tag
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Well, the Dumbest Blogger at The Dumbest Blog Ever has tagged me with this but unlike the many “awards” out there, this one is just questions about the subject at hand. So many awards are only gimmicks to just get back-links and increase stats but to me, this is different…
