The Wake Up Call – 7 May 2013

The Wake Up Call –
9 April 2013

Like the smell of strong coffee wafting down the hall, we offer a few book-related thoughts and stories to jumpstart your day…

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WHOA!  Hard to believe it’s been almost a month since the last Wake Up Call post…
Guess I got a little bit busy there.
 

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“To be a philosophical skeptic is, in a man of letters, the first and most essential to being a sound, believing Christian.”
-Philosopher David Hume, born on this day 1711.
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“A man who lives, not by what he loves but what he hates, is a sick man.”
– Poet and Playwright Archibald MacLeish, born this day in 1892.
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Book News:

• Publishers Weekly: So you think you want to be a librarian
• LA Review or Books: Review of Pain, Parties, Work: Sylvia Plath in New York, Summer 1953
• NPR Books: New York City of Trees

Thanks be to God for this new day, may it be full of beauty and grace!

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