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Bookish Quote of the Day:

"Let us welcome controversial books and controversial authors."

—John F. Kennedy

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Today in Literary History:

On this day in 1967 Alice B. Toklas died, at the age of eighty-nine. Toklas spent her last twenty-one years without Gertrude Stein, but with the same idiosyncratic devotion to Stein's genius as she had throughout their thirty-three years together. This did not protect her from those managing Stein's estate, and at eighty-seven she was evicted from the flat which the two had shared for decades.

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Literary Pic:

 

© 2008 Wilbur Pierce

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Book on my Radar:

The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place

Book I: The Mysterious Howling

by Maryrose Wood

Balzer + Bray (February 23, 2010)

272 pages

Children's Fiction (Grades 4-6)

 

Summary in a Sentence:

Fifteen-year-old Miss Penelope Lumley, a recent graduate of the Swanburne Academy for Poor Bright Females, is hired as governess to three young children who have been raised by wolves and must teach them to behave in a civilized manner quickly, in preparation for a Christmas ball.

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