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Ever wanted to give and receive books for free? Thought Bookcrossing.com was so much pointless busy work? (Just let that &*%$ing 50-cent copy of Watership Down go already!) Welp, here's Bookmooch.com. As Annie sings, I think I'm gonna like it here. Between this and Freecycle, I'm well on my way to the barter system if the economy collapses.

Isa Chandra helpfully linked together all the vegan blogs she watches. Awesome. Full disclosure: I'm an omnivore, but I really love the inventiveness of vegan cooking, unlike vegetarian cooking which usually is regular cooking minus the meat. Whizzed silken tofu can replace eggs in baking? Oh wow, they sure do. Golly! So you know, yay more recipe fodder. :)

Yesterday I had a patron who had to write a paper about nyctophobia. Not about what phobias are or how to overcome them, but what nyctophobia is. In my head I wrote the paper for her: "Throughout the years people have been afraid of the dark. The end." Some instructors set their students up for failure, eh?

Although now that I think of it maybe the paper was about the origins of the phobia and reasons why people are afraid of the dark...this is why I are srs librarian, I are srsly gooder at big thinking on my feets.

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It reminds me of Cordelia's Science Fair project: "The Tomato: Fruit or Vegetable?" and Willow's muttered spoiler, "It's a fruit!"

oh god! book mooch! i have a knee high stack of books my doer-of-good neighbor just advised me to give to the homeless mentally ill people facility around the corner (around the corner from this one, actually). and i was thinking, this is really unhelpful, just a recycling of junk to people who can't use it and for whom it will only be garbage which sucks the air out of their rooms. like, can you see them reading Speaking of Crime: Narrative ogf Prisoners? well maybe.
anyway thanks for a life-saving link. free to good home!

in re: nyctophobia, scared of the dark, the end.

i've been having a lot of those moments lately, many related to supposedly intelligent people who write books purporting to solve problems. being far less civilized than you, i call these No Shit, Sherlock moments.

and in other better news, have you seen today's NYT food section recipes on really over-the-top thanksgiving side dishes? cornbread and broccoli rabe cheesioid casserole???? kale, beans and squash ditto? i think you all sound like the same kind of fans of a great veg mixture i am, and the quantities produced will rival the borscht recipe.

here, i ganked em.
http://purejuice.livejournal.com/1053544.html#cutid1

Bookmooch.com -- what an awesome concept. Thanks for the link!

(Just let that &*%$ing 50-cent copy of Watership Down go already!)

Ahahah! I do have such a volume in my collection. It is so old and beat-up that I actually should throw it out and get another copy, but...but...it has character!

What she needed was this...

http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_social_history/v040/40.3ottaway.html

I remembered running across this book when I worked at B&N. Really cool! ;)