Is the Kindle the future of books?

     So on http://calitreview.com/category/blog  I would this entry…
     Kindle Joins a Literary Ritual: Authors Can Autograph It: A recent reading in Manhattan at the Strand bookstore by David Sedaris, whose most recent book is “When You Are Engulfed in Flames,” may have offered a glimpse of the future. A man named Marty who had waited [...]

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Novelist Alice Hoffman going crazy on Twitter

Here’s a link to one of the stories I saw about how Hoffman kind of went crazy on her twitter because she got a bad review…
http://features.csmonitor.com/innovation/2009/06/29/novelist-hoffman-apologizes-for-blasting-a-book-reviewer-on-twitter/
What does everyone think about this?
Personally I think it is completely out of line what she said. You are in a career that your work is going to be reviewed. [...]

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True Blood vs Sookie Stackhouse novels

I often hear people comparing books to movies.  I think something that happens less is comparing books and television shows.  Obviously, there is not a huge market for tv shows based on books but there is some.  It seems like not as many people pay attention to those book series though. 

For example the other day [...]

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Alright then

So as you can see I did a lot of updating.   Sorry the links at the top don’t work.  I could not figure out how to reroute them.  Hopefully one day they will be fixed but for now I’m not going to worry about them.  
As for what I’m going to do on this site, it [...]

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Let the light start

Where did the human race teeter?  Did we mean for it to end like this?  Is it ending?
We stared at the tv all morning.  What did it mean anyways?   I kissed Nick on the forehead. His brown locks curled feriously at the nap of his neck.  His eyes looked worried but he didn’t say anything.  [...]

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So impulsive

Yeah so I just deleted everything I had on here up to this point.  How many months of stuff?  Well I hadn’t updated since March.
I changed the URL too.  Lately I feel like what I want is closer so I have to refine what I want to be.  Does that makes sense?  Hopefully.
Writing and ideas [...]

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