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Lady Audley's Secret Readalong!
Come May! Every Thursday (starting 5/1) we shall be diving into Lady Audley's Secret by Mary Elizabeth Braddon. I have never read this before, and I hope you have not either, because there are SECRETS,...
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Maybe shame-based competition WOULD solve our nation's problems
I went to my hometown this weekend of Champaign, Illinois. Champaign is located in the center of the state (basically), but if you talk to someone from Chicago, they will say it's in "southern...
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But judging history makes me and my friends feel so good about ourselves
I went on the same rant a NUMBER of times yesterday, including on Twitter, to my brother on Gchat, to my friend at dinner, and to another friend on the phone after dinner. This rant was about, of...
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The Shame of Literary Opinion Take-Backsies
You know how sometimes you might be a person with strong opinions who will brook no opposition? At least not without yelling "YOU ARE FULL OF WRONGY WRONGNESS" at said opposition? Yes, well, as of 80...
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Lady Audley's Super-Secret Readalong Schedule
I forgot this was a thing that started this week because May has CREPT UP ON ME. So okay. The way this book is broken up will not be NEARLY as awesome as Bleak House, as I have not read it yet. We're...
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C2E2 Is a Joy and a Treasure
The people of San Diego have Comic Con. Atlanta has Dragon Con. New York has NYCC. And the people of London get all the Amanda Tapping conventions, which isn't fair but fine.Chicago has C2E2, which is...
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Lady Audley's Super-Secret Readlong Week 1: Bales of Stupid Wool
Oh wow, is it time for...LADY AUDLEY'S SUPER-SECRET READALONG?It is, and if you forgot, it's okay because I did too until Laura reminded me on Tuesday. But it was only FOUR chapters, which was about 23...
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"Do the Backstreet Boys count as a band?": Growing up bandless
"Everyone has blind spots," goes an extremely accurate quote from The IT Crowd.Growing up, I not only didn't hear music like The Beatles and...other groups I don't even know the names of, because...
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Game of Thrones: Direwolf Puppies and Plot Twists Are Apparently the Way to...
Game of Thrones the book (unclear about the show) is amazing. Let's recap why.A MILLION FAMILIES. Fighting for the throne. I think there're actually like four as of right now, but if gifsets on tumblr...
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"Alicia, don't be German!": Lady Audley's Big Secret Continues
MORE CLEWS.So last week I was totally taken in by Helen Talboys being dead, and then you all were like "SHE'S TOTALLY NOT THOUGH" and now I'm slightly disappointed in Braddon, but willing to see how...
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Syndrome E: "What sort of animal had be become in the jungles of Colombia?"...
The good folks at Penguin asked if I wanted to review a book called Syndrome E by Franck Thilliez. As Penguin is a fine publisher, I checked it out, and it turns out it's a thriller that did...
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Mostly Consisting of Television Reactions
On occasion, we of the human race have nights where DESPITE the knowledge that we shall be sleep-addled lunatic zombies in the morning, we find ourselves wide awake and needing to watch some YouTube...
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Nancy Mitford's Pigeon Pie: More Nazis and Some Retrospective Awkwardness
If you will remember, Nancy Mitford's first novel, Wigs on the Green was about Nazis, but 1935 Nazis when people were all "What-ho, this Hitler chap seems maybe not the best, but it's not as if he's...
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Lady Audley's Really Big Secret: The Story of One Man and His Romantic Quest...
The book is pretty damn clear about Lady Audley and what she's done, but we have TWO HUNDRED PAGES LEFT. What else shall happen! We're just gonna lead with "prancing tits" because WHAT? Knacker's...
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Zombie Spaceship Wasteland: "We were, postage-wise, suburban feudal subjects."
I gave Patton Oswalt's book Zombie Spaceship Wasteland 3 out of 5 stars on Goodreads but you should still read it, and I shall tell you why.I love Patton Oswalt. A lot. Stand-up comics have occupied a...
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Lady Audley's Giantly Hidden Secret Readalong: "Is it *me* the flying female...
We read more and SO much happened. By which I mean Robert got booted from Audley Court because Lady Audley didn't want him SNOOPING, he moved to Phoebe the Albino and Her Abusive Cousin-Husband's...
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Books What I Love a Lot
Since the ever-delightful Meghan at Little, Brown basically turned me into a bashful hedgehog, I'm going to go hide under a daffodil, but first mention some books I love. Aside from Game of Thrones....
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High School Locker Lessons
Everyone's kind of a tool in their own special way in high school. And later in life you (hopefully) look back and say "Ha, look at how much of a tool I was back then. Thank God I'm only like that in...
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Lady Audley's Rip-Roaring Secret Continues: "The indolent recklessness of...
Oh man SO MUCH IS HAPPENING amirite? At the end of chapter 32, I was all "DAMNIT I should've ended the week's reading here," but then chapter 33 happened and BOOM.Some of you might have noticed the...
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I'm Back and Half-Conscious
I'm back from New York/BEA, People Who Knew I Was There! To others — I was in New York City at BEA! Given that I've been lugging tens of pounds of books from New York to Chicago and have only just now...
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