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4 weeks ago | 
bangalore.explocity.com | Kurt Vonnegut
Event DescriptionABOUT THE URBAN SOLACE BOOK LOVERS' CLUBThe Urban Solace Book Lovers' Club began in 2010, sparked by a gathering of writers featured in Chicken Soup for the Indian Teacher's Soul. Inspired by that shared energy, the Urban Solace Book Lovers' Club was born and has since grown steadily, meeting monthly on the second Sunday.
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2 months ago | 
kornferry.com | Kurt Vonnegut |Junot Diaz |Junot Díaz |Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |Harper Lee
The question used to be whether to read the book or watch the movie. These days, of course, there is a third option, which is to listen to the audio version of a book narrated by the familiar voice of a favorite actor. A-list celebrities are venturing into the burgeoning audiobook scene, bringing life to children's books, adding new textures to old classics, and even making personal memoirs more intimate by reciting them firsthand.
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Mar 7, 2025 | 
boredpanda.com | Christopher Moore |Kurt Vonnegut
People say that entire worlds can fit inside a book, no matter how tiny it is. Books give us fearless heroes, relatable stories, and transport us to lands unknown. But books can also carry stories as physical conduits: stories of their readers' past. There's an online community that shares the odd and delightful things readers find inside their old books.
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Feb 13, 2025 | 
schooloftheunconformed.substack.com | Kurt Vonnegut |Jack London |G.K. Chesterton |Grant R. Martsolf
A few weeks ago and I had the pleasure of speaking with as part of the podcast series by the Beatrice Institute, an eucumenical learning and research community which serves all who “pursue beauty, truth, and goodness”. Recent episodes include Progressing Toward Apocalypse with ; Can We Rebuild the American Trades with Jacob Imam; and The Fate of Post-Industrial Man with (author of Of Boys and Men).
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Jan 31, 2025 | 
giantfreakinrobot.com | Drew Dietsch |Kurt Vonnegut
GIANT FREAKIN ROBOT > Movies & TV > Sci-Fi By Drew Dietsch | Published 13 seconds ago Science fiction movies have always taken inspiration from great stories written by imaginative authors, and some of those movies aren’t even based on full novels but short stories and novellas. Whether it’s John W. Campbell’s “Who Goes There?” becoming John Carpenter’s The Thing, Philip K.
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Nov 11, 2024 | 
fivebooks.com | Byrd Baggett |Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut (1922-2007) was an American writer and author of more than 10 novels as well as plays, nonfiction and short stories. During World War II, he was a prisoner of war in Dresden and survived the firebombing that destroyed the city in February 1945, an experience that formed the basis of his 1969 book, Slaughterhouse-Five.
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Oct 26, 2024 | 
blogfinger.net | Kurt Vonnegut
Neptune drop box for vote by mail. October 26, 2024 by Blogfinger Vote by mail is convenient, and it is especially good for those who are handicapped or those who don’t want to wait in line on election day or with early vote by machine. (at the Senior Center.)If you have requested a vote by mail ballot, they will send it to you by mail. Follow the directions carefully which come with the ballot.
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Oct 24, 2024 | 
iowastatedaily.com | Caleb Weingarten |Kurt Vonnegut
I guess I write for a multitude of reasons, many of which are unconscious and indescribable to me, or, in other words, internal motivations that arise in an unknown location inside of my mind. I know that much. You often hear writers say they can’t present a bullet-pointed description of what compels them to write, that writing comes about when you feel like it is something you must do against all else. My experience speaks to me in this same tone.
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Oct 9, 2024 | 
indytoday.6amcity.com | Kurt Vonnegut |Ashley Flowers |Angela Jackson-Brown |Leah Johnson
What’s better than a good book? A good book written by your neighbor (or former neighbor). Brew up a batch of your favorite tea from Tea’s Me or grab a latte from Kaffeine Coffee and get ready to meet your next read, because we’re talking about locally written books in the Indy area. Fiction“Cat’s Cradle” by Kurt Vonnegut | Release date: 1963 | You might have read this dark sci-fi novel that satirizes technology, religion, and science in school.
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Oct 1, 2024 | 
designyoutrust.com | Kurt Vonnegut |Halasz Matyas
Illustrations That Prove Speech Bubbles Can Tell Their Stories Without Words These Unusual And Sarcastic Illustrations Will Make You Rethink The Way We Live Artist Shows Off The Fleeting Nature Of Beauty With Crumbling Portraits Geeky And Adorable Silhouettes By Andy Fairhurst Make You Go Awww Secret Life of The American Teenagers in Urban Paintings by Mark Tennant A Historically Accurate Elsa Has - Dare We Say It - An Even Prettier Dress Between Street Art And Pixel Art, The Amazing...
