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2013 Wrap-Up: Events.
I completely forgot that my theme song for this year was Harder Better Faster Stronger by Daft Punk, and that right after I chose it back in January, I got sick and fell behind in everything.THIS YEAR...
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2013 Wrap-Up: Books.
2013 was SO WEIRD. Can you believe the stuff not read at the beginning of the year that has now been read? GAH. My mind can almost not fathom it. ALMOST. Anyway. Here's a survey I stole from...
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I think I completed Adam's TBR Challenge one year. Once. And I have tried since to reach such heights of glory, with nary a shadow of success. It is, however, what started me having a book blog and for...
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Feminist Theory from Margin to Center: This is gonna be a fun one
The wind chill is currently -21, and for the first time in memory, work is shut down because it is too cold to go outside. So let's discuss feminist theory!In 1984, bell hooks wrote a book called...
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The Invention of Wings, Sue Monk Kidd: Lady abolitionists and attempted slave...
Sue Monk Kidd's new book, The Invention of Wings, does not have a cover that would make me want to read it.But when Penguin asked if I wanted to review it, I gleefully said yes, SOLELY based on the...
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Bleak House in February
THE TIME HAS COME.Some of you have not read Bleak House. Which is a silly state of affairs, because it is the greatest. SO. In the dreary month of February, we shall read (or re-read) Charles Dickens's...
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MINITHON SO EXCITING
Ah, it is time for the minithon, hosted by the completely awesome Tika at Reading the Bricks. We love Tika.Like that, Tika. We're like that.SO. The minithon is eight hours, and we mainly are just going...
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MINITHON POST THE SECOND
Halfway through the minithon and I have:1) Gone grocery shopping.2) Eaten an orange and the remaining hummus I made yesterday.3) Taken a shower. 4) Read the first chapter of Bleak House, almost to the...
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Minithon: The Endening
I'M NOT LEAVINGI LOVE THE MINITHON SO HARD.IMO, you definitely want a readathon to end when you still want to be reading, as opposed to painfully pushing yourself to keep going, watching the clock with...
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Late night historical lady talks
Maybe it's 1 AM, and maybe I drank some Coke at midnight, and maybe I need to talk about Medieval Women by Eileen Power for a sec.And also Christine de Pizan — WHAT? What? Christine de Pizan, who even...
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1927: A lot happened that year and Bill Bryson is ON IT
One Summer: America, 1927 is the first Bill Bryson I have finished. I have now come to the conclusion that while I am not so much a fan of Bryson travelogues, I am a devotee of his...
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Minnesota: Where I did nothing but quote Drop Dead Gorgeous the whole time
So sometimes in life, it's late. And you're on OKCupid. And you see a girl's picture and think she's pretty and then find out she's in Minnesota because OKCupid is dumb about geography, but ALSO...
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Behind the Candelabra: Sure, this seems factual
Last summer, I got monstrously drunk at Pride, went back to my friend's apartment, and passed out on her couch (if you follow me on Twitter, behold my profile pic). When I woke up and felt disgusting,...
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Bleak House Readalong Reminder HAVE YOU STARTED YET
The Bleak House readalong's first post is in ONE WEEK. ONE WEEK TO READ ELEVEN CHAPTERS. IT CAN BE DONE. That's less than two chapters reading a day, suckahs. You put this off til the last second and...
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World War Z is a damn fantastic book.
World War Z is a damn fantastic book. TRUE I am realizing this years after its publication, but better now than when I'm 90.Max Brooks, son of Mel Brooks and Anne Bancroft, and evidently an immensely...
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Retreating and BleakAlonging
THE WOMEN'S RETREAT HAPPENED. And I was there. With Minnesota Girlfriend. And then we drove home to Chicago and ate Thai food and watched Doctor Who.was pretty greatWe learned about the Enneagram, and...
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"I have not the slightest doubt that the scoundrel has passed his whole...
This book. THIS BOOK. Is what started me on Dickens. I hated him. HATED. And then when I was 18, my professor assigned it and Bleak House became one of my favorite books of all time, and its author the...
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January was IN-sane for books, man
I rocked January, you guys. I don't mean to brag, except I TOTALLY DO.Because the end of last year was so reading slumpy! And then I read ten books in January. TEN. And they weren't even YA books! I...
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Wigs on the Green: Where Nazism Is All Fun and Games
Nancy Mitford's Wigs on the Green was JUST republished in 2010 after being out of print for 35 years. Out of print despite the semi-enduring popularity of Mitford's novels. Why? Because it's pretty...
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Bleak House Week 2: There are chords in the human mind...
Ah, second week! Where we added to the exposition with more exposition, but also some things happened! Some of you are getting more invested, and also discovering the payoff of sticking with Dickens,...
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