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Book Riot Linkage!
Did you all know I write for Book Riot? Probably. I don't really mention it on here though. But it's Thursday! And I'm sleepy! So here're some posts I've written for them that I like:What to Read After...
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American Authors and Their Manly Manliness
American authors. How about we talk about American authors. Guess what I didn't study in college? Ok, lots of things, but those especially. I did 19th century British and French lit, and when I asked...
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Probably Great Unread Books
I have pounding sinuses, I am on meds for menstrual cramps, and it's 2 AM, but let's dive into what looks good on my ever-expanding Goodreads to-read shelf, currently listing at 431 items.Master and...
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The Scorch Trials by James Dashner
The Scorch Trials is the second in the Maze Runner series by James Dashner. It's your standard YA, post-apocalyptic, Possibly Evil Government Is Manipulating Teens situation. CHILDREN ARE THE FUTURE....
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Is Gone-Away Lake THE best book or only like in the top 2?
Gone-Away Lake by Elizabeth Enright. A girl and her cousin go exploring on their summer vacation and find a ghost town of summer houses from the turn of the century, as well as two elderly people who...
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The Fox and the Star
Penguin asked if I wanted to review The Fox and the Star, and I said yes because it is so. damn. pretty. My tiny tiny wonderful nieces are appx 1000x more artistic than I ever was, and all I could...
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Hamilton Readalong
Did you too perhaps receive a copy of Ron Chernow's extremely long with tiny font biography of Alexander Hamilton for Christmas? Do you worry about having the follow-through to finish it? I know I do....
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2015 in Review
To put things into perspective, at the beginning of this year, I hadn't even read Carmilla. CARMILLA. Insanity.Counting the two books I will assuredly finish New Year's Eve, I read 73 books this year,...
View Article2016! THE YEAR OF POSSIBILITIES
Ok, every year is the year of possibilities. But this one is NEW so I like it the most.2015 was the year of comics.This will be the year of...something else. I don't know. I didn't plan ComicYear, it...
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An Academic Book About Gay Mormons, Sure, Why Not
I am here to read the books you would never ever want to read and then summarize the best bits for you.I recently finished D. Michael Quinn's Same-Sex Dynamics Among Nineteenth-Century Americans: A...
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HamAlong Week One: "I wish there was a war"
I don't think there's any doubt that Lin-Manuel Miranda's Hamilton is a work of genius and that we are fortunate to be around for its beginning. Do you think Ron Chernow ever imagined that teenage...
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It's Wilkie Day, can we ever celebrate enough
Do you know whose birthday it isDoyouknowWILKIE COLLINS, patron saint of certain book bloggers, creator of Our Lady of Literature Marian Halcombe, and opium addict who kept multiple ladies around town....
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HamAlong, Week 2: The Adventures of Bacon Face
This week's HamAlong is dedicated to this redoubt:Yes, those are toy soldiers and tiny sticks. But LOOK that's what Hamilton and Lafayette had to deal with when they were fighting at Yorktown. How...
View ArticleThe arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice
If there were any day to get weepy about social justice, today seems like a likely candidate. We can get bogged down in the moment, and despair of things ever becoming better, but look to ten years...
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Jane Rule: Human whatever it costs
"It's people that matter, Mar, not sexes or ages...The monsters are those who go rutting around like monkeys, not those who choose to be human whatever it costs."Certain brave humans have fought over...
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#HamAlong: Week 3
I didn't do the reading. I did none of it. But I am HERE FOR YOU ALL, as your gracious host who didn't prepare for your arrival at all but frantically spreads some towels on the bed in lieu of clean...
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Midwifian Novels (note: contain no midwives. probably)
While my reading time is eaten up by ignoring Chernow's Hamilton and how massively behind I am on it, I've still been buying books/checking them out of the library. Because that is how I satisfy my...
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HamAlong: This book is great but also it can bite me
Because I skimmed this section, I will leave it to others to comment on the Maria Reynolds situation, as that is where we ended our reading for this week. If Chernow stays true to form, he'll be in...
View ArticleHamAlong: I've lost count of which number we're on
How're you all feeling about Hamilton? Do you like him? While I assume he was likable, since the book keeps saying he was, I've kind of been pissed at him for a while. And this quote of his: "I pledge...
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Mardi Gras Post!
It's Fat Tuesday! The tradition that echoes down to us from the medieval ages and possibly before, I don't know, I'm not going to Wikipedia for this. But back when people took Lent seemingly much more...
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