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HOLIDAY GIFT GIVEAWAY HOP with "BINGLE BELLS"!

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Welcome to the HOLIDAY GIFT GIVEAWAY HOP with "BINGLE BELLS"! This event has been months in formulation as well as nonetheless you am new to this sort of giveaway, you am really vehement which the day is finally here! you have the little kind donations of Gift Certificates to be won as well as there will be 4 winners, with the singular for any giveaway! Please check out the wonderful prizes donated by my really generous sponsors. you entice you to check out their sites or bookmark them to visit after the hop. Have fun everyone! CHOCOLATE.COM IS GIVING AWAY A $25 GIFT CARD FINE CHOCOLATE for FINE OCCASIONS A Unique Chocolate Marketplace Chocolate.com features handmade, workman chocolate gifts from world-class chocolate vendors. We move together the chocolate cook as well as the gift patron to form the singular marketplace. We hold which the finest chocolate is found in tiny chocolate shops around the globe. We celeb! rate the actuality which every cook has the singular...

Book Review Podcast

This week: Evan Thomas discusses his book about the 2008 presidential campaigns; Motoko Rich has Notes from the Field; Gary Hart talks about the foreign policy challenges facing Obama; and Jennifer Schuessler has bestseller news. Sam Tanenhaus is the host. Popout Original audio source (16bookupdate.mp3)

WIN A COSTUME SQUAD T-SHIRT! AND GET AN EXTRA ENTRY FOR HOLIDAY BLOG HOP!

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HOW ABOUT A UNIQUE GIFT? AN EXTRA ENTRY TO HOLIDAY BLOG HOP? HOW ABOUT A PERFECT T-SHIRT?! WIN A T-SHIRT OR GIFT CARD FROM COSTUME SQUAD T-SHIRTS ABOUT COSTUME SQUAD T-SHIRTS: Also partial of the CRAZY DOG T-SHIRTS family, COSTUME SQUAD .COM says their "Service goal is simple: We have been committed to upon condition which our customers sum satisfaction. Every time. Guaranteed. Contact us during or call anytime." COSTUME SQUAD.COM not usually has some some-more amazing T-Shirts, though additionally has the full array of costumes, together with costumes for dogs! This is the REALLY fun website store to revisit so check it out. MY REVIEW: If we were stranded last Halloween, seeking for which undiluted dress as well as didn't find it, afterwards we need to know about COSTUME SQUAD .COM ...Or perhaps we have been seeking to surprise someone for Christmas? Santa?...or Santa's Helper? With so much to choose from, we again, was during the loss. However, we thought, b...

Book Review Podcast: Annie Murphy Paul's 'Origins'

from Paper Cuts by By THE NEW YORK TIMES Featuring Annie Murphy Paul on her new book "Origins" and the emerging scientific field of fetal origins; and Gay Talese on the art of nonfiction narrative and his new collection of sports writing. Popout Original audio source (01bookreview.mp3) Popout Original audio source (20101003-Gay-Talese.mp3)

John Lennon: Bull in Search of a China Shop

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Giles Harvey Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images John Lennon, Liverpool, circa 1961 When a Beatles called upon Elvis during his rented Bel Air palace in Aug 1965, a contingency of a pleasant evening were regularly going to be long. Whereas a Fab Four, with five series a single albums behind them, were currently basking in a high noon of their creative prime, Elvis had outlayed a past half-decade spendthrift his prodigious talents upon horrible cinema as great as now, during usually thirty, looked to be in permanent eclipse. And so, carrying taken a chair next to a sun-bronzed Elvis upon a sofawhere, similar to any alternative night, he was concurrently watching TV with a receptive to advice off as great as listening to musicJohn, Paul, George, as great as Ringo astonishing found themselves with zero to say. If you guys have been only gonna lay there as great as glance during me, pronounced Presley during last, Im goin to bedI didnt meant for this to be similar to a subjects job up...

PROFESSOR BINGO PRESENTS DAY: OLIVIA GOES TO VENICE GIVEAWAY

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WELCOME TO BOOKIN' WITH BINGO'S " PROFESSOR BINGO PRESENTS DAY " I'M EXCITED TO ANNOUNCE THIS TUESDAY'S "PROFESSOR BINGO PRESENTS DAY " CHILDREN/YOUNG ADULT BOOK CHOICE IS..... OLIVIA GOES TO VENICE WRITTEN AND ILLUSTRATED BY IAN FALCONER ABOUT THE BOOK: In her first brand new journey in three years, Olivia takes her perceptive eye for style to beautiful Venice upon a family eighth month that involves dodging pigeons in a Piazza San Marco, gorging upon gelato, as well as barely staying afloat in a gondola. ABOUT THE AUTHOR/ILLUSTRATOR: Ian Falconer is a writer as well as illustrator of all a titles in a bestselling Olivia series: Olivia , Olivia Saves a Circus , Olivia...and a Missing Toy , Olivia Forms a Band, and Olivia Helps with Christmas . His illustrations have also graced most covers of a New Yorker. In addition, he has designed sets as well as costumes for a New York City Ballet, a San Francisco Opera, as well as a Royal Opera H...

WIN A "NACHOMAMATEES" T-SHIRT! AND GET AN EXTRA ENTRY FOR THE HOLIDAY BLOG HOP!

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NEED A T-SHIRT FOR A CERTAIN SOMEONE? NEED AN EXTRA HOLIDAY BLOG HOP ENTRY? HOW ABOUT A NACHOMAMATEES' T-SHIRT?! WIN A T-SHIRT OR GIFT CARD FROM NACHOMAMATEES T-SHIRTS ABOUT NACHOMAMATEES T-SHIRTS: HERE'S THEIR STORY FROM THE MANUFACTURER (WITH NACHOMAMATEES BEING A "SISTER" COMPANY TO CRAZY DOG T-SHIRTS): "The poke is over; we have found your forlorn source for droll t-shirts! At Nacho Mama Tees the droll t-shirt developers have come up with the most appropriate mens t-shirts online! Buy hangover t-shirts, step hermit t-shirts as well as Chuck Norris shirts! Shirts have been printed upon tall peculiarity cotton; shirts which wont tumble detached after the first wash. So see what youre missing! Catch all the novelty shirts during this one-stop, droll t-shirt shop!" MY REVIEW:Still seeking for the gift for which very singular individual upon your list? Someone who dances to the opposite drummer though additionally has the great sense of humor? Look no serve...