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Archive for January, 2006

Book soundtracks, Keith Dobson speaks

Monday, January 30th, 2006

Hello, hello all, on this rainy January night in New York City.
First of all, I would like to tell you about the new BOOK SOUNDTRACKS.
In an exciting development (I hit the wrong button on iTunes), I discovered that my personal mixes for the books could be made available to the world at large! So [...]

LOVE to the ninja book monkeys

Wednesday, January 25th, 2006

Today, it is time to give it up for the librarians and the independent booksellers.
I realize how dull that sentence sounds to a lot of you—but hear me out. LOVE your librarian. LOVE your independent bookseller. LOVE them for lots of reasons.
Today, I love them because of all the LOVE they have given to [...]

Admitting you have a problem is the first step

Saturday, January 14th, 2006

I have an addiction–aside from my addiction to coffee. (Which, sadly, is a real one. Sometimes I embrace it, and sometimes I try to fight it.)
The other addiction is to cookbooks and cooking shows.
I have for many years read cookbooks–for fun. I have quite a collection, which I regularly purge to make room for new [...]

Live from New York . . . it’s a NEW BLOG

Wednesday, January 11th, 2006

Welcome to 2006! The New York mj office is back open for business!
It’s been a while again! How are you? Have you found any more good cups of joe? Write to me at maureen@maureenjohnsonbooks.com and tell me about them! I am still working on the Coffee Map of America.
I left the London office just in [...]

FANCYWORLD

Monday, January 9th, 2006

I’ve noticed something about England in the last few days. They have really nice stuff here.
I’ve always been a little aware of this-that my English friends had things like really nice cell phones that could work in different countries, when mine barely works in my apartment. (And not really at all back at my family [...]