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Written by Rachel P. Ladies and Gentleman, May I present to you: the Fifty Shades Trilogy.  Many of you may have already seen or heard of Mrs. E L James and her S&M erotica novels (if not, check out these links: Today Show or E L James) but I’m here to give you a local [...]

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First, an announcement: for June only, the Scifi book club meeting will be at 6pm on the SECOND Tuesday, June 14, instead of the normal first Tuesday. We will be reading The Mysteries of Udolpho, which is the book that Jane Austen parodied in Northanger Abbey, and was also one of Edgar Allen Poe’s major [...]

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On Friday March 11th for Loveland Night on the Town, we had the pleasure of hosting a promotional event for the Loveland 365 Book Project.  The project, which was founded by local businessman John Giroux, is an attempt to showcase all the great people, places, and things that make Loveland America’s Sweetheart City.  After years [...]

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A talk with John Giroux of Loveland 365

John Giroux, founder of Loveland 365 According to John Giroux, the Loveland 365 project began way back in 2008, or even late 2007.  In 2008, John took a photo of Lake Loveland every day for 365 days, just as a personal project.  When he wrapped that up, he started looking for another year-long project for [...]

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New happenings at Anthology

Anthology Book Company is pleased to introduce the new events coordinator, Matt. Those of you who frequent the store will recognize Matt as the knowledgeable, well-read bookseller and trader. To add to his talents, Matt will be replacing me as coordinator of events and media relations. Additionally, Jessica, a long-time bookseller, trader and leader of [...]

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I started writing a response to Chad’s comment on my post E-books and illegal file sharing, but halfway through I realized my response was longer than some of my actual blog posts.  So I’m just gonna put it out here on its own.   More after the jump.

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Departed Angels

Jessica’s mini-review: We just got a used Departed Angels (Jack Kerouac: The Lost Paintings) yesterday, and it looks pretty cool. The first half is just a collection of Jack Kerouac’s terrible drawings and paintings. It’s kind of hilarious; the drawings range from awful to passable, but you could never accuse Kerouac of timidity, so despite [...]

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Many of our readers and customers may be enamored with Loveland, Colorado. I know it found its way into my heart 30 years ago when I moved here to escape the “big city” of Fort Collins. I settled in an older home on 4th and Harrison, walked to the Library, purchased fresh meats at The [...]

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E-books and illegal file sharing

I very much liked this post about the ethics of file-sharing, especially of e-books: http://deepad.dreamwidth.org/61462.html Obviously, as an independent bookseller, I am in favor of physical copies of books. But there’s a lot to chew over in this space; e-books vs. paper books; illegally sharing e-books vs. using the library or buying used books. As [...]

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Our December book club book was The Darkship Thieves by Sara Hoyt. Because of the weather and my poor memory, the author wasn’t able to join us after all, but we still had an energetic discussion. The story is a romantic space opera, told from the first-person perspective of a twenty-something princess with serious psychiatric [...]

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