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Beverly Sills was Beverly Awesome
Today is the sixth anniversary of Beverly Sills's death. This doesn't really have to do with books, except she's the only opera singer I know of to have written TWO autobiographies, both of which I...
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My best friend interviewed me about Jane Austen while we were drunk at 1 AM. So here y'go. Skip to the end if you don't want the full three minutes.
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Mary Wollstonecraft: Partypants or Lame-O?
I enjoy my parents. If only because at one point yesterday, our conversation led to me obstinately declaring that Thomas Jefferson was known as "Weenie Jefferson" by all who knew him (my mom's a big...
View ArticleWhen all else fails, authorial action figures
I just imagined that author action figures existed and got REALLY EXCITED because omg Elizabeth Barrett Browning/Robert Browning would live on my bookshelf, signifying their absorption in each other...
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If you insult Narnia, I will come at you
You know how when you watch something during your childhood, it can become enshrined as this hallowed, Is Perfect Forever sort of thing? Even when if you watched it nowadays you'd be like "Well this is...
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I have many leather-bound books and my apartment smells of rich mahogany
So TIKA visited, and it was mightily fun and we looked at art and started Orange Is the New Black and ate ice cream. I recommend that you meet her.I've been reading basically nothing. Just...nothing....
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Hiking, Plus Also Margaret Atwood Is Not Terrible
I went to the library last night.I am now ONE book away from my checkout limit of 30 (did I mention how I haven't been reading at all? yeah? okay), but I'm returning Cheryl Strayed's Wild today, so...
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Back from Seattle and Dad Is Fat
I'VE LIVED OFF MY PHONE FOR THREE DAYS HOW ARE YOU GUYSAnd actually I can get most shit done on my phone. By which I mean social networking. As that is how I primarily internet. So for those of you who...
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Seattle: Where Everyone Has a Kickass Tattoo
A couple months ago, everything in my life seemed to be pointing towards Seattle. And I was suddenly dying to go there. "But HOW?" I despaired. There was yelling at people on Twitter for living near me...
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I might have acquired some more books maybe and by maybe I mean that...
I seem to be developing a canker sore. Add that to not being able to walk due to my ILL-FATED MOVE of trying to run for the first time in a year up a hill in Washington state, plus the slow realization...
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The Weekend + Hiking in the Dunes, and I promise this isn't turning into a...
It is the 29th. And I am SO CLOSE TO FINISHING LIKE THREE BOOKS. I'm determined at least some of these will happen before the end of July, or this shall be a very lackluster summer, reading-wise. But...
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Ellen Ternan was not a gold-digging trollop
Do you think the Victorians were so overrun with sentimentality that nothing really meant anything?"My dearest darling, for so you have been thought of by me from the dark reaches of the past and shall...
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You Should Be Reading Michelle Tea
A while back, someone asked me to make a list of LGBT lit. "I...pretty much only read the "L" part of that," I answered. So it was amended to a list of lesbian lit. Regardless of whether or not you're...
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Temperance, and I Enjoy Frances Willard's House Almost As Much As She Did
I cannot overestimate the level of indifference with which people will respond when you tell them you have JUST come from a tour of former president of the Women's Christian Temperance Union, Frances...
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The Brontes are basically my default mental topic, but y'know, whatever, man
Despite all the instincts of the better part of my soul, here I sit typing and attempting to form coherent sentences. So goes the human condition! Soldiering on in the face of any adverse...
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Millennials and the Enlightenment: We are the new 18th century assholes
I've realized something, and that is that I am terrified of the 18th century the way I'm terrified of a group of teenage girls walking towards me on the sidewalk.If I had to pick any century to live...
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Frances Willard Is Really Great and I Read a Hundred-Year-Old Book About Her
You might've noticed I've been talking about Frances Willard lately (this is truer for the people in my real life, so let the feelings of sadness for them commence). While on this Willard Quest for...
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Love means never having to say you're sorry, except that's buuuuullshit
All right, this post will be entirely full of spoilers, so if you've somehow made it 43 years without knowing the plot of Love Story and were REALLY looking forward to reading or watching it, I guess...
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Passions Between Women: British Lesbian Culture, 1668-1801
Emma Donoghue, author of Room and various other novels and short story collections, is also a fancy scholar lady with a PhD from Cambridge. Back when I got all into Helena/Rosa from The Mystery of...
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Inferno: Will this Dan Brown novel have some twists? Oh, I hope so.
Making fun of the writing in a Dan Brown book is kind of like shooting enormous fish in an unusually tiny barrel.Or like shooting a stealthy Dan BrownSo I won't comment on how the heroine is "strangely...
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