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Top Ten Tuesday: Unique Book Titles

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Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by The Broke and The Bookish and it's a great way to share what you're loving in list form.  The topic changes every week, so there is always something new to discover! This week's topic is:  Top Ten Books With Unique Titles .  There are some doozies out there...here are a few. Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel of Letters  by Mark Dunn    Another Bullshit Night in Suck City by Nick Flynn   Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day by Judith Viorst The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore Don't Bend Over in the Garden, Granny, You Know Them Taters Got Eyes by Lewis Gizzard What?! All Fun and Games Until Somebody Lose...

N is for...Nonsense and Oddities

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Greetings Tuesday!  I'll admit that it was difficult to come up with an Oregon activity/landmark that would fall into this category.  I was going to do something about Native Americans, but there are too many things to write a post about in that regard.  So, instead of doing something specific, I'm going with... Nonsense and Oddities Every place has something unique about it.  Something that's odd or complete and utter nonsense.  Here are some of Oregon's random facts: The Oregon state flag is the only flag in the US that has two separate designs:  the Oregon crest and a beaver on the reverse side. Oregon has more ghost towns than any other state:  59.. Oregon is the only state that has an official state nut:  the hazelnut or filbert. The state birthday is Valentine's Day :) The official state fish is the Chinook Salmon. Oregon has the largest collection of rosaries at the Columbia Gorge Interpretive Center. The Carousel Mus...