Thursday, March 18, 2004



Reading is personal; do we really want to follow a crowd in our march to literacy?
Patti Thorn

But books are not like eggs. Every time we buy eggs, we are looking for the same thing we had last time; but every time we buy a book, we're looking for something different... Yesterday was St Patrick's Day Tomorrow is Sinner Jozef's Day!

The New Irish Chicks
Young women of Ireland are storming the global market for 'chick-lit'. A new breed of Irish female authors in their 20s and 30s, from both Northern Ireland and the Republic, have become hot properties and publishers like Penguin are queueing for their signatures.
· Chick-lit flourishes in singletons' Dublin

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