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best top 100 list

From Len at BookSense.com comes BBC's top 100 list for 2006. Really fun.

Avenger

So, another pop qiuz. No googling. Who plays young Scrooge in the 1951 version with Alistair Sim as the elder Scrooge. (Our favorite version by the way, with the Muppets one a close second. The rats doing 'heat wave'? C'mon. A classic movie moment.)

a unique take

Just out this week is Larry Gonik's Cartoon History of the Modern World. It is VERY engaging and even controversial - it's a Zinn-like take on history. Just out in paperback. Check it out.

Hayley yes

Googled around to confirm that Cat Stevens did write Here Comes my Baby, as I recalled, and found this neat site. Cute but scary.

Win a Mike Perry CD

Win a CD by author Mike Perry. XM is firing up some great covers this AM. Elvis Costello doing Brilliant Disguise. Leo Kottke doing Sweet Emotion. And Yo La Tengo just did Here Comes my Baby. Who had the hit with that song back in the 60's?  And no Googling!

The Food Network

I could do all that cooking, too, if someone chopped all my chives, celery, peppers, etc etc etc and put them in cute little glass dishes for me!!

Toot toot Tudor

Bookselling This Week celebrates the 30th anniversary of the Tudor Book Shop and Café  in Kingston, Pa., one of my favorite stores, which has grown to a 4,800-sq.-ft. store from 144 square feet.

addictions

Ah Miss Universe. Naughty girl. But we all have our addictions, whether cigs or Su Doku? Mine? Edie's Dibs ice cream. omigod, take 'em away!!!

Mary Not Contrary

Mary McCarthy of the wonderful Harry W. Schwartz Bookshops in Milwaukee has been a friend for more years than we care to say, and courtesy of Shelf Awareness, here's a link to Mary's reading and gift picks via her radio talks. See Schwartz's holiday guide at this link, too.

Favorite store URL

Fireside Books' goodbooksbadcoffee. Very clever.