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What're You Reading?
Jobs! Activities! Summer! They all combine to bring a person's reading rate down, down, down. BUT! That person still takes much joy in starting books she has not yet finished and therefore cannot blog...
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Was Carrie Nation Just Insane?
If you dive into temperance history in the slightest, you'll run across the 6' tall figure of Carrie Nation (later changed by her to "Carry"). She is famous for going into saloons with a hatchet and...
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Master and Margareadalong in October!
You guys. We've talked about it. We've talked about it for so long. And now...it's finally happening.This October, we shall read the classic tale by Bulgakov that seems to involve a cat! I have assumed...
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The Manhattan Projects: Wtf, Man
I liked the hell out of Jonathan Hickman when I read the first East of West (remember that? it's ok if you don't — I get it, life is busy), so when I saw he had ANOTHER series called The Manhattan...
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American Vampire by Scott Snyder: Vampires in Old Timey Times
American Vampire by Scott Snyder is a 19th/20th century American graphic novel/comic book series I-can't-quite-distinguish-between-those-two-yet about vampires. Scary vampires. Not terrifying vampires,...
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Future Readalongs Under Consideration
YES the time of readalongs is nigh at hand, as Master and Margarita is starting NEXT MONDAY (posts posted whenever on that day) and it has gotten me thinking about what's next. I personally am on a...
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Master and Margareadalong: The Master and Margarinning!
Wow, I sure did not have any idea what this book was about. Mostly because I 100% thought it was about a ship's cat. If someone had told me it "concerns a visit by the devil to the fervently atheistic...
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A Guinea Pig Pride & Prejudice: GUINEA PIG ALL THE THINGS
You guys. Imagine the scene. I'm at Volumes Book Cafe with a group of writers from Book Riot. I turn the corner. And I see a picture of a guinea pig dressed up like Elizabeth Bennet.This guinea pig.You...
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I'm Just a Person by Tig Notaro: Funny People Writing Sad Things
I have loved Tig Notaro since I clicked on her first album one night before bed while browsing Spotify and proceeded to laugh until my stomach cramped. Then, of course, her 'Live' album was released...
View ArticleMaster and Margarita: "Who would let Styopa on a fighter plane without shoes?"
What happened in Master and Margarita this week? A bunch of people got disappeared by the devil (Secret Police), Apollonian and Dionysian values got compared (apparently), and there was more Jesus...
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Master and Margareadalong 3: Does anyone wear pants in this book?
As we plough through the overcast but fallishly festive month of October, we continue this weird, weird book.This week, more people went to jail, more people were slapped around by Satan and his...
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Women's History: Those Who Rose Up and Said 'Fuck This Bullshit'
The other day, I decided to lay out all the women's history books I had in my room (minus my Emma Goldman books, which have their own shelf section).My path to women's history wasn't extremely wendy,...
View Article24 HOUR READATHON!
IT'S THE 24 HOUR READATHON, which means I will read for approximately 3 hours today, but I will TRY to read more. I'm just not that good at committing to these things, you guys. But I keep trying....
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Master and Margareadalong 4: What is even happening
So...Margarita attended Satan's Grand Ball. And everything was rull weird.Like a fairytale, it was all a big test and Margarita was suddenly in an insane situation and just had to do as she was told,...
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Timeless: PERIOD COSTUMES AND TIME TRAVEL
You guys. I am totes into NBC's Timeless.Ok, so you've got the dissatisfied-with-her-job-and-life lady history professor (Lucy), the stoic military dude whose wife has died and he's got a lot of SILENT...
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Master and Margareadalong: Everything is on fire
I...okay. All right. So. This book.Master and Margarita...is...a book that is loved by very many people. About the Soviet Union, and Satan coming to Moscow. And some people seem to really really love...
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The Lottery and Other Stories by Shirley Jackson: Everything is ambiguous and...
Shirley Jackson's writing can be described as extremely Shirley Jacksony.The only one of her story collections to be published during her lifetime has FINALLY accomplished what I've been waiting for...
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How We Can Be As Badass as the Suffragettes
What do we do now.Being the suffrage nerd I am, I recently told my friend "This feels like a NAWSA vs. the NWP time. And I tend towards NAWSA. But it's time for the NWP."What the hell that means is...
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Dead Feminists: Art, Feminism, and History
Dead Feminists basically springs from the idea of "What if we made a book about feminists throughout history and made it REALLY really pretty?"Chandler O'Leary and Jessica Spring, one an artist and one...
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A Guinea Pig Oliver Twist: The Guinea Saga Continues
You guys. Here's the thing. I don't even LIKE guinea pigs. I think they are pointless animals. But maybe that's why I find Guinea Pig Pride and Prejudice and now A Guinea Pig Oliver Twist so completely...
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