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Monday Tally is a weekly link round-up of some of my favorite posts discovered over the week. If you have suggestions for Monday Tally, please e-mail sophisticated [dot] dorkiness [at] gmail [dot] com. Enjoy!

BookClubSandwich: We’re Heading Into The Jungle


The book readers voted on for our next BookClubSandwich read is The Jungle by Upton Sinclair. I’m excited about this pick – it should be easy for everyone to find and, even though it’s a novel, is often cited as one of the big books in journalism history.

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Monday Tally is a weekly link round-up of some of my favorite posts discovered over the week. If you have suggestions for Monday Tally, please e-mail sophisticated [dot] dorkiness [at] gmail [dot] com. Enjoy!

Things I Look Forward To

Dewey’s 24-Hour Readathon is coming up in two weeks, exciting! I get to participate for part of it, and with a special guest – my sister! I’ll be in Iowa that weekend, so Jenny and I have plans to hunker down and read for part of the day on Saturday. Woo!

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The Victorious Return of Monday Tally

Monday Tally is a weekly link round-up of some of my favorite posts discovered over the week. If you have suggestions for Monday Tally, please e-mail sophisticated [dot] dorkiness [at] gmail [dot] com. Enjoy!

It’s been like a month since my last Monday Tally… Oops. I blame The Move and then me just being lame. But now it’s back, and I pledge to bring you awesome links. Some of these are a little old, but hopefully still good. Here we go!

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Monday Tally is a weekly link round-up of some of my favorite posts discovered over the week. If you have suggestions for Monday Tally, please e-mail sophisticated [dot] dorkiness [at] gmail [dot] com. Enjoy!

Top Picks
If you only have a minute, here are my top picks for this week.

Why I Hate Amazon and Will Never Ever Buy From Them Again (via Hey Lady! Watcha Readin’?)
Baraboo’s Circus World Museum featured in upcoming film (via 77 Square)
The Journalists’ Guide to Analytics (via 10,000 Words)

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Monday Tally is a weekly link round-up of some of my favorite posts discovered over the week. If you have suggestions for Monday Tally, please e-mail sophisticated [dot] dorkiness [at] gmail [dot] com. Enjoy!

Top Picks

Jane Austen’s Heroines Kick Butt. Literally. (via Time Magazine)
Every Book Asks for Something Different: An Interview with Tracy Kidder (via The Bygone Bureau)
Six classic American magazine stories reimagined for the digital age (via Pitch Blogs)

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Monday Tally is a weekly link round-up of some of my favorite posts discovered over the week.

Monday Tally is a day early this week because tomorrow is my discussion for Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried. I can’t wait!

Top Picks

Book Review Editors: Hidden Conflicts Are Not Easily Found via Media Matters
Why The Next Big Pop-Culture Wave After Cupcakes Might Be Libraries via NPR Monkey See Blog
Top Secret America via the Washington Post

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Monday Tally is a weekly link round-up of some of my favorite posts discovered over the week. If you have suggestions for Monday Tally, please e-mail sophisticated [dot] dorkiness [at] gmail [dot] com. Enjoy!
Top Picks
Top picks are my three favorites of the week – links here, explanations later in the post.

A Q&A with the Creator of “I Write Like”: “The Algorithm is Not a Rocket Science” (via The Awl)
In BP’s Record, a History of Boldness and Costly Blunders (via the New York Times)
Hashtags Could Save Publishing (via Shelf Awareness)

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Monday Tally is a weekly link round-up of some of my favorite posts discovered over the week. If you have suggestions for Monday Tally, please e-mail sophisticated [dot] dorkiness [at] gmail [dot] com. Enjoy!

Top Picks

Rebecca Skloot: How Fannie Flagg and Hurricane Carter Shaped The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Friday Coffee Chat – Book Snobbery
What Broke My Father’s Heart

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Monday Tally is a weekly link round-up of some of my favorite posts discovered over the week. If you have suggestions for Monday Tally, please e-mail sophisticated [dot] dorkiness [at] gmail [dot] com. Enjoy!

Monday Tally might be a bit light this week, since I had to get it ready before my vacation and didn’t read blogs all weekend. But it’s still pretty link-tastic, if I do say so myself!

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Monday Tally is a weekly link round-up of some of my favorite posts discovered over the week. If you have suggestions for Monday Tally, please e-mail sophisticated [dot] dorkiness [at] gmail [dot] com. Enjoy!

This week making vacations smarter, Diana Wynne Jones Week, and how gamers and mentors are building a better world.

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