Friday Finds: 21 Dogs Years: Doing Time @ Amazon.com and others

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What great book titles did you hear about this week? MizB invites you each Friday to share your Friday Finds.

This week, in the tradition of memes where one person adapts the meme to his or her own circumstance, I’m going to expand my Friday Finds to include not only books, but also audio and videos and other assorted links:

I’ll start first with a few I shared in last week’s Sunday Salon (so pardon me, if you’ve heard this one before):

• What I Talk About When I Talk About Running: A Memoir by Haruki Marukami mentioned by Christina at Ardently Pink Reads in a post about summer reads she discovered on newspaper’s book blogs. I’ve read a couple of Marukami’s books and as a runner, I was especially interested in reading. The book is about his preparing for the 2005 New York City Marathon.
• Holy Disorders by Edmund Crispin mentioned by Terence Jaggers at Books Do Furnish A Room in a post about a pile of a books he put in his briefcase on a trip to Chile. I have never heard of this book, but it sounds like the kind of mystery I might like.
• The Sound of Language by Amulya Malladi mentioned in today’s Sunday Salon by Swapna Krishna, with a review found at S. Krishna’s Books.
• John Humphrys’ interview of the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams; Professor Tariq Ramadan, Muslim academic and author; and Sir Jonathan Sacks, Chief Rabbi a BBC as mentioned in today’s Sunday Salon post by Margaret at BooksPlease.

I’ll continue with articles and video I bookmarked throughout this week in my del.icio.us bookmarks:

• “I’ll never be caught reading an ebook,” says Nick Hornby in the Sunday Times — found thanks to 51stories
  
• Gene Weingarten talks about the impact of losing copy editors in this humorous piece in The Washington Post
• Dr. Horrible: A Jess Whedon Internet play featuring Neil Patrick Harris I have seen this a few places and watched a bit. Pretty funny.

Now back to the topic about which MizB originally asked: books. I discovered three others at the library today as I was picking up a copy of Three Cups of Tea’s: One Man’s Journey to Fight Terrorism and Build Nations…One School at a Time by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin for an online book club I’ve joined. The club is called Travel The World (from a Comfy Chair) on Book Blogs. The three are:

• 21 Dogs: Doing Time @ Amazon.com by Mike Daisey: This immediately caught my eye for its title. It’s about Daisey’s rise from temp to customer service rep to “business development hustler,” the book jacket says and is the basis for one of many one-man shows he does. After reading Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe, I need a little lighter reading.
• Talk to the Hand: #?*! The Utter Bloody Rudeness of the World Today, or Six Good Reasons to Stay Home and Bolt the Door by Lynne Truss, author of Eats, Shoots and Leaves. I admit I haven’t read her other book, but I couldn’t resist this one, especially with the photo of the raccoon with its paw extending out on the cover.
  
• The New York Public Guide to Reading Groups by Rollene Saal: being that I’m trying to become involved with one at Book Blogs, it can’t hurt to find out more about reading groups, right?

Yes, I talk the picture on an unmade bed in our guest bedroom/home office. At least, it’s clear now (well, except for these books) so that it can be made.

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