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What my blog would be if it were cooler
A friend recently suggested I make this a blog that reviews the first 50 pages of books. Because that's about how far I get before I get distracted and skip off to another book.exactly.That's a bit too...
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Literary Places I'm Going to See, Or So Help Me God
So. Literary Places I Would Like to Visit. Let's talk about them. Because they are all probably way, way awesome.1. Emily Dickinson's House. Am I even that big a fan of Dickinson? Nope. Can I quote any...
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Harry Potter Readalong, Week 5: The Chamber of Secrets Is in a Bathroom,...
I think I've neglected to mention here that I'm in a zombie musical and when I'm not at work, I'm in rehearsal. Or trying to finish The Mystery of Edwin Drood (IT IS DONE AND I CRIED). So, have I read...
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I read things in January. Don't act like you're not impressed.
I am returned."You left?" say you. "Don't be rude," I reply.Yes! To Wisconsin I went on my church's annual women's retreat. We pair up with a church from Oak Park, which is the fancy liberal suburb...
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I have perhaps acquired too much information
Research is very near to my favorite thing to do. The best thing about it is how one thing leads you to another, then another, then suddenly you're five miles away, looking with a shaded hand at your...
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Guess whose unbirthday it ISN'T?
I was alerted by Amanda via twitter that today...is Dickens's birthday. No, I wasn't aware. I had zero idea, in fact. Was not expecting it. BUT HERE IS HIS HASTILY COBBLED TOGETHER BIRTHDAY POST. "I...
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"It looks like a Grim if you do this, but it looks more like a donkey from...
Mmm, Azkaban. Hopefully there won't be as much complaining this week as last week, as people seem to wet themselves with excitement over PoA and Sirius Black (I...don't get you guys).HOWEVER. I am all...
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It's basically all I'm reading right now
My reading habits as of late have led me to say 'Dickens was an asshole' more often, usually in public places. But it's usually along the conversational lines of "Dickens was an asshole...but here's...
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Rules about buying books are not for times when there is no temptation
I've been doing pushups and planks for zombie musicalness, as I am wearing a tank top in the show and must look BADASS, but I still have some lovely underarm not-awesomeness. You guys wanna point me in...
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Harry Potter Readalong, Week I Don't Even Know
Azkaban. More like AzkabAM, amirite? (did anyone make that joke last week? I'm really tired)But hey hey hey -- Imma let you finish, but this is the greatest Azkaban internet thing of all time:Sirius...
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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Bringin' You All the Vaccines
Have I talked about Lady Mary Wortley Montagu on here before?...a quick search tells me I have not.Well then.A good portion (read: two essays) of my college career was spent on this woman. Why? I don't...
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Movies are usually happier than books
In case you all were worried about the fate of the fast-walking couple that I usually see ahead of me on the walk to work, WORRY NO LONGER. I hadn't seen them in a few months, and I started worrying...
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Harry Potter Readalong, 'Goblet of Fire' sounds better than 'Tankard of Water'
Welcome to the Goblet of Fire.David Tennant, you are appropriate for thisThis is the one everyone gets way jazzed for. This is the one where it goes from really good to amazing. This is the one my...
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Anne of Green Gables and the Smooth Sounds of the 1980s
At age 13, I unsurprisingly had an Anne of Green Gables phase. What I mean by this is I saw the musical (yes, there's a musical) and promptly bought all the books and read them, mostly on a family road...
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The Outsiders Was My 11-Year-Old Jam
Did you all ever get into S.E. Hinton? Because I way, super-did. When I was eleven, my class read Rumble Fish, and this spawned a whole thing where I read all of her books and organized my Littlest Pet...
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Harry Potter, Goblet of Fire Pt II (two more after this, folks...two more)
Why does Snape avoid Moody? WHY? DO WE KNOW? I feel like I missed something.And DON'T TORTURE THE SPIDER IN FRONT OF NEVILLE WTF IS YOUR PROBLEM OMG I WILL END YOUOhh this section. I was so excited...
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The Wilder Life: I read a book about an obsession with a thing I don't know...
This is gonna be an interactive (on my part) review, kids, so hang on.So those're me, at (clockwise from top left) Bishop Hill, Illinois (tiny Swedish cult town from the 1800s); the Triangle Shirtwaist...
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Claude Frollo isn't QUITE as horrible as he looks. But it's close.
I'm going to yet again bring up the Tiredness Annoyance. Which is that if someone says to you "Man, I'm just really tired," you do not reply with "Yeah, me too." Ever. Because everyone is tired except...
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Julius Caesar: Let's just change the title to 'Brutus'
I saw Julius Caesar last night with my delightful playwright friend Skye.indeed.So I went into this knowing nothing about the shape of the play. So when Caesar gets stabbed in Act I (surpriiiise!), I...
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Harry Potter Readalong: Harry Potter's Secret Heartache
I was seriously just screencapping the trailer to Joss Whedon's Much Ado About Nothing and preparing for bed when I realized it's basically Harry Potter Post Day, which made me go "Fuck" and now this...
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