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Comic from Unshelved about a boy asking librarian about what books he can check out and the librarian telling him he can check out any book. The teacher says it's above the child's reading level and they have a policy. The librarian replies he loves the sound of a breaking policy breaking.

In Arabian folklore, Sinbad the Sailor found his way to the City of Apes. The city's inhabitants must sleep in boats on the water since at night savage apes come down from the mountains and enter the city to steal its fruit and attack any humans they find.

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So, putting the book down where you finish reading it until it organically evolves into a pile of books doesn't count as "arranging"? Rude! πŸ˜œπŸ˜‚

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A meme with pictures of six diffrent bookshelves. Caption: How do you arrange your books? 1. HEIGHT 2. PERSONAL SIGNIFICANCE 3. COLOR 4. STACKED 5. ALPHABETICAL 6. CHRONDLOGIAL

2025.12.12 β€” What's the longest book you've ever read?

Don't laugh! My nose was in that book a lot as a teenager and university student. Read the .

[Author retains copyright (c)2025 R.S.]


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Thicker than three reams of paper, smellier than most libraries, with enough dust to kill a bear, weighing in at 11.5 lbs. my black hardbound Van Nostrand's Scientific Encyclopedia 4th Ed 1968 sits on an office chair with reading glasses atop it for a size comparison.

If anyone wants to check out my fiction, all of my ebooks, Flicka's LOVERS, The Fifth Seduction, BEER POUR, and the Appalachia crime drama I wrote under NJ Edwards in '23, are all free during this BIG smashwords.com end-of-year sale. FREE!

All of my ebooks are FREE at smashwords.com thru the end of the year! Flicka's LOVERS, The Fifth Seduction, BEER POUR, and even my first paperback that I authored under the pen name NJ EDWARDS back in '23, GOOD OL' BOY, are all FREE for this limited sale.

Not all the Knights of the Round Table were British or even European. The Middle Eastern knight Sir Palamedes was a rival of Sir Tristan for Iseult in the Arthurian romances, and he was featured in "Le Morte d'Arthur" as one of King Arthur's noblest champions.
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Portrait of the noble Sir Palamedes by Christopher Cant

3. What's the best thing about the world of your story?

Free

Freedom from etc.

Freedom to and interact with whoever one wants too as long as it is consensual

The big Q for the residents of this world is what to with all this? Whether to revert to the old or building something new?

It is in the name of the - "A New Faith" πŸ˜€

What? Still more promotions? Yes! Beginning Dec. 8th and running through Jan. 1st, BEER POUR and my other ebooks, Flicka's LOVERS and The Fifth Seduction, will be ON SALE at Smashwords.

Smashwords promo upcoming: December 8 through January 1. All of my 2025 ebooks will be on sale: BEER POUR, Flicka's LOVERS, and The Fifth Seduction.

For Barnes & Noble readers, my two romances are on sale for early Black Friday. Flicka's LOVERS ebook and The Fifth Seduction ebook are now $2.00. Such a bargain! wbiz

My two 2025 romance novels, Flicka's LOVERS and The Fifth Seduction, are available for $2.00 each as e-books at Barnes and Nobleβ€”an early Black Friday sale.