Metatron's Link Dump

For the 50 Book Challenge:

10.    The Year 1000 : What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium by Danny Danziger

11.    Caro's Book of Poker Tells by Mike Caro

12.    The Baby Owner's Manual: Operating Instructions, Trouble-Shooting Tips, and Advice on First-Year Maintenance by Louis Borgenicht

13.  On Becoming Baby Wise by Gary Ezzo, Robert Bucknam

For the 50 Book Challenge:

8.    Hold'Em Poker for Advanced Players, by David Sklansky and Mason Malmuth

9.    Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity, by David Allen

Project Gutenberg online book catalog

Best free digital libraries

The Orange Prize longlist (via Bookslut)

Series retelling of myths - sounds exceptionally good

Because I can't rely on the New York Times letting me into their archives after a few weeks, here is an entire article:

March 14, 2005

CONNECTIONS

 

In Battle of Mutual Hostility, U.S. Is Outmatched by France

By EDWARD ROTHSTEIN

   

merican Francophobia is not all it's cracked up to be. Actually it's not even a phobia. It is more like an expression of extreme distaste or disgust. Its character is evident in the invention of "Freedom Fries" or in the pouring of Bordeaux wine into sewers. It is theatrical and demonstrative. It tends toward ridicule. And usually it reacts to something very specific: it has a news peg.

For the 50 Book Challenge:

1.  The Best of Everything: The Insider's Guide to Collecting--For Every Taste and Every Budget, by John Marion

2.  The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, by Mark Haddon

3.  Chainfire, by Terry Goodkind

4.  The Three-Martini Playdate: A Practical Guide to Happy Parenting, by Christie Mellor

5.  The New Decorating with Pictures : Collecting Art and Photography and Displaying It in Your Home, by Stephanie Hoppen

6.  A Princess of Mars, by Edgar Rice Burroughs

7.  Gods of Mars, by Edgar Rice Burroughs

Futurismic fiction (via BoingBoing)

Spiderman Bible stories (via BoingBoing)

Fact-checking comic books (via Neil Gaiman)

Michael Dirda's review of Lovecraft (also via Neil Gaiman)