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Books & Memories is a secondhand book store in Syracuse, New York, with a terrible name and dead web site.
2600 James St
Syracuse, NY 13206-2842
(315) 434-9268
But because visiting it made me enormously happy, I’ll describe it here, so that you may believe, despite the inability to click on it.
Like any good independently owned store, [...]
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Thanks to my wife’s insistence, I joined Facebook a few months ago. After the initial shock and awe, I stumbled into an online game called Mafia Wars. It’s essentially a role-playing game reconfigured for social networking. You create your character, then ask your friends to join your mafia. The bigger your [...]
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Budgeting gets a bad rap as a giant drag. If you’re not someone who’s inherently organized, as I’m not, first thinking about the process feels like trying to corral the very air.
“Money? I don’t know, I just, you know, wing it.”
But winging it always left me uneasy. I’d think, “I must be overspending. But I [...]
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I have a vivid memory of standing with my mom in her bedroom as she went through her closet, bemoaning that she had nothing to wear. I was probably 4 or so. I didn’t understand what she meant — there were clothes everywhere.
Now she is me. My own closet is full of vintage dresses that [...]
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2,160.
That’s the estimated number of times the word “money” turns up in the 360-page novel Money, by Martin Amis. And the word never loses its thrill. What was narrator John Self thinking or feeling about money right now? What would happen — good or bad — because money was there, or [...]
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