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1. Bookmarks and Bookplates If you love to read and collect books, you probably have a collection of special bookmarks and bookplates for your personal library and book collection. Bookmarks that hold our place between the pages of a book or magazine - gently keep track of wher...
2. John McPhee - A Pioneer of Creative Nonfiction John McPhee is regarded as one of the founders of "new journalism," a field which includes Tom Wolfe and Hunter Thompson. He does not agree with that assessment. For one thing, other "new journalists" tended to insert themselves into the narrative, w...
3. Sarah Vowell: The Voice of Violet Writes! Sarah Vowell, known to many as the voice of Violet in The Incredibles, has also been, with her unforgettable voice, a regular contributor to Chicago Public Radio's This American Life. She has written five books. Her sharp wit, quirky humor, and...
4. The Punnery My website, Have Pun Will Travel, has a section called The Punnery. It's a collection of posts I made along with those of several friends on the now-defunct GEnie service's TeleJoke, which The Punnery was part of. It owed its name to Richard Lederer'...
5. Dungeons and Dragons Dungeons and Dragons is a fantasy roleplay game published by Wizards of the coast and originally invented by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson. It was first published in 1974 by Gygax's TSR. AS of 2006, there were an estimated 20 million players of Dungeon...
6. Which Charity Would You like to Support? Here you will learn about 4 that have a long term benefit of helping people help themselves. One charity that is passionate about ending animal cruelty. You can make your personal donation by clicking the word Donate and follow the instructions. Than...
7. Free Speculative Fiction Online This site provides links to free online Speculative Fiction. SpecFic is a broad and wonderous term that encompasses many forms of speculative genre writing. Care has been taken to choose only sites that do not infringe on the authors' copyright.
8. Spirit of the Season Challenge Incentives With any Squidoo charity challenge the greatest incentive is knowing that you have make a lens to benefit a charity. The Spirit of the Season Challenge Incentives are being generously donated by giving lensmasters to sweeten the pot and make partici...
9. John Wood from Room to Read I think that a student must have humility and be willing, indeed eager, to listen. I can’t remember who came up with the quote “I never learned anything while talking,” but to me that aptly describes the   student/teacher...
10. Bill Bryson - Travel, Language, Humor, Nearly Everything Bill Bryson is an American author who has written several books on travel in Europe, the United Kingdom and the United States. He has also written several books on the English language, as well as a book on the history of science, a memoir, and a boo...
11. Spider Robinson: Callahan's Saloon and More "If one were given the task of creating Spider Robinson from scratch, the best way to do it would be to snatch James Joyce from history, force-feed him Marx Brothers films and good jazz for the better part of a decade, then turn him loose on a world...
12. Give More with Gifts or Clicks Christmas is a time for giving and good will. It is even better if the gifts that you give can give more, do more or make a difference in the lives of others. It is a way of giving a gift that gives twice. With the economy the way that it is now, we...
13. Top 10 Fractal Christmas Cards Here's my list ten favorite Christmas fractal greeting cards. Squidoo is donating any proceeds from this lens to the charity Room to Read. Each card comes in packs of ten. Some cards are also available in other quantities. I hope you enjoy this selec...
14. Spirit of the Season Challenge The Spirit of the Season Challenge is all about sharing that special holiday spirit that comes around once a year. This Holiday challenge gives lensmasters a chance to share what the holiday spirit means to them, share what they plan to do to spread...
15. Children's Art Kids Art is my favorite.  They create their masterpieces in the moment. The picture to the left was drawn by a 5 yr. old little girl.  She loves her ponies and that love is expressed in her art.  Room to Read has established operations...
16. Hugo Awards - Novels - 1950s The Hugo Awards, named for Hugo Gernsback, pioneering editor of Amazing Stories, are presented at the World Science Fiction Society's Worldcon each year for works published the previous year. The awards were first presented at the 1953 Worldcon in P...
17. Hugo Awards - Novels - 1970s Ursula K. LeGuin was the only author to win the Hugo Award twice in the 1970s. Grandmasters Isaac Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke each won a Hugo. The Hugo Awards, named for Hugo Gernsback, pioneering editor of Amazing Stories, are presented at the Worl...
18. Nebula Awards - Novels - 1970s In the 1970s, both Arthur C. Clarke and Frederik Pohl won the Nebula Award twice. The first of Larry Niven's Ringworld novels won in 1970. The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, Inc. was founded in 1965 by SF author and editor Damon Kni...
19. Graveyard Tombstones & Sculpture Art Prints--25% of Site Revenue Donated to Room to Read.org This lens offers photographs of antique memorial sculptures and symbols. Many of these vintage sculptures will not survive the decades ahead but you can enjoy their beauty right here and now. If you wish, you can purchase items bearing my photograph...
20. Black Women In Europe (It ain't where you're from it's where you're at) By an African American expatriate for other black expatriates and locals in Europe.  A place to celebrate black women in the African Diaspora.