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Beowulf on the Beach: What to Love and What to Skip in Literature's 50...
What I wanted to be reading was 50 Works of English Literature We Could Do Without, because Alice said the authors sounded 'brilliant, bored, and irritated' which is a flavor combination I enjoy, but...
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Hunger - Jackie Morse Kessler
I took this out because sometimes my library doesn't have the immensely popular ebook that I WANT to (re)read, but has this random piece of hilarious garbage instead. And I'm easy with short YAs...
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Minithon, half-assed.
Tika over at Reading The Bricks hosted a minithon today, and I sort of participated, in that I read almost all of Max Barry's Lexicon (which is amazing). But the only things about my thon that were...
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Parentology - Dalton Conley
I love Science Meets Things I Already Have To Do (eat, be on the internet, parent my kid) so I netgalley'd this pretty quickly. I'm always so dubious when books are advertised as brilliantly witty or...
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Lexicon - Max Barry
*excited fists, eyebrows*This was so good, you guys.*pauses to regain dignity, fails*I don't know if it's because everything I've read lately has been Not Great, or Great But Not What I Wanted To Read...
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Self-Serving Sunday
Friends! Romans! Internettlewebs!You guys know I write for Food Riot, right? And that it's basically the most fun I've had since I started this blog? Books and snacks, that's all I ask.Some of my more...
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Reviewlettes!
It's time to be honest about some books I'm either not going to review to their justification, or not going to finish.No Man's Nightengale - Ruth RendellBecause, I mean, No Man's Nightengale, right?...
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Bleak House Readalong
I love a good readalong. I'm traveling for part of Feb so I make no promises about the thoroughness or timeliness of my posts, but I'll make a good start, at least.I read Bleak House in my teens, but I...
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Redefining Girly: How Parents Can Fight the Stereotyping and Sexualizing of...
See, THIS is the problem with NetGalley, that your review copies are always expiring before you get around to writing about them, and because you don't take copious paper-notes but just put bookmarks...
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Bleak House Readalong
Lackluster performance in this Bleakalong so far, in terms of linking up and commenting on other posts and being aware of hilarious drama. BUT I have been Bleaking.Where were we. 'It has left off...
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Bleak House Readalong
Spoiler for all you chumps who didn't finish this week's assignment, it ends in SPONTANEOUS HUMAN COMBUSTION.Dollars to donuts says Chancery Court has one of these.And while I am like, LOL THAT, the...
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Bleak House readalong
Still bleaking.KROOK IS MRS SMALLWEED'S BROTHER. Errrrrrbody is related.Errrrbody.So that gives Smallweed a leg up on whatever letters Krook had secreted away (unless they were in his spontaneously...
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Bleak House Readalong: Super Late Edition
I wasn't going to post on last week's Bleakalong because I am so tardy, but then I was reading the assigned section and Mr Jarndyce asked Esther to marry him andso here we are with some brief...
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Bleak House readalong
I almost read past the deadline this week because THINGS ARE COMING TO A HEAD.Oh Mr Bucket, with your unctuousness and geniality and your desire to check people's yards for escape routes and your...
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Bleak House readalong: THE GRAND FINALE
I totally read this last Monday night, after I scheduled last week's post. WHAT A PAGE-TURNER, YOU GUYS? I feel like that sounds facetious, but I barely breathed through the entire scene where Esther...
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Mind of Winter - Laura Kasischke
HAHAHAHA OMG.I remembered liking The Raising more than my blog post suggests I did (this is why I HAVE you, blog), so I totally requested Mind of Winter and it was AMAZING BUT ALSO HORRIFYING. I mean,...
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Inferno - Dan Brown
So, I read Inferno a thousand weeks ago and made a bunch of disconnected notes and swore I'd shape them into a cohesive post with gifs and whatall, but that's clearly not happened so I'm just going to...
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Lady Audley's Secret Readalong.
SECRETALONG! This readalong is being hosted by Alice (as usual) and will contain any amount of gifs and spoilers.I read Lady Audley's Secret in my teens, but we know how I am about plot and remembering...
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Lady Audley's Secretalong!
I've said this in the comments of basically half of last week's posts but I totally thought Helen Talboys was Lucy, even after George saw the obituary I was like,death faked, obvbut then he met with...
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Lady Audley's Secretalong
Sorry I missed last week, guys. I was busy BRINGING HUMAN LIFE INTO THE WORLD.I'm basically an anti-Lucy (we all agree she killed George, right? Although let me say this: if no one had mentioned that...
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