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     “Darlin’,” she said, "you can’t live life without TV."

     Well, actually you can, as the author of this article proves. You may find it an enticing thought, especially while the summer reruns are on TV. Personally, I favor that wonderful institution, the neighborhood library, and not only for the great classics. It just plain offers great entertainment, of a much higher quality than TV, and you have thousands of choices instead of the pitiful number dished out on the tube. (And, yes, the choice is still pitiful, compared to a good library, even if you have cable or satellite TV.)

     Just a thought.

http://www.lewrockwell.com/
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WHAT SHOULD I READ NEXT??

     The WHAT SHOULD I READ NEXT? site says, “Enter a book you like and the site will analyse our database of real readers’ favourite books (over 32,000 and growing) to suggest what you could read next.”

     On their site I put in I, Roger Williams, by Mary Lee Settle, the best novel I’ve read lately. The site then gave me ten historical novels with one big thing wrong: they were titles only, and library books are shelved by author. They seemed to think I was going to go to Amazon and buy all those books. Good grief!

http://www.whatshouldireadnext.com/books/search

     But there’s another site that recommends books, and with it I hit the jackpot: GNOOKS asked me to list three favorite authors, then gave me a number of authors whose books I should like. You notice we’re talking authors here, not titles.

http://www.gnooks.com/trip.php

     But that’s not all. This site has a companion feature: LITERATURE MAP. I entered Mary Lee Settle, and the author of this site hadn’t heard of her. The GNOOKS/LITERATURE MAP site is the project of one person, Marek Gibney, whose first language is apparently German. And though he’s read, in English, an amazing number of books, of course he hasn’t read 32,000 like the WHAT SHOULD I READ NEXT group. So instead I typed in Joyce Carol Oates, a better known author, and this neat swirling map came up and gave me a bunch of authors I might like.

     If you like to read, the LITERATURE MAP is a fun toy you can play with over and over, putting in different names.

http://www.literature-map.com/
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