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Initially, I wasn’t a big fan of Jesus Land by Julia Scheeres. I think my initial dislike came from a disconnect between what I thought the book was going to be about and what the topic turned out to be. In the end though, I’m glad I stuck with it all the way through because [...]
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I am so excited to have questions to answer! I got quite a few comments on my Weekly Geeks #12 post from earlier this week. All of the questions related to Stardust are in a separate post from yesterday, found here. It’s a longer review of the book, more like a normal review, since Stardust [...]
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I got a lot of really interesting questions about Stardust by Neil Gaiman on my first Weekly Geeks #12 post. Since this is a book I read earlier this year, I’m going to expand the WG questions into a longer review. Andi from AndiLit asked: What did you think of Stardust? Everyone raves about it [...]
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This weeks Weekly Geek challenge (courtesy of Dewey at The Hidden Side of a Leaf) is to get caught up on book reviews with help from other bloggers. Here are the instructions from Dewy: 1. In your blog, list any books you’ve read but haven’t reviewed yet. If you’re all caught up on reviews, maybe [...]
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Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer is a book that I have wanted to read for a really, really long time. It comes up on pretty much every list of best examples of creative nonfiction, and it’s a great example of the type of writing I think I would most love to do in the [...]
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I missed Monday Tally last week, but hopefully some interesting articles this week will make up for that. Fat-E: The new Pixar movie goes out of its way to equate obesity with environmental collapse by Daniel Engber at Slate.com — I haven’t seen Wall-E yet, so I don’t know how accurate this critique is. Basically, [...]
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I’m pretty far behind the curve on reviewing this book, which was a best seller a few years ago. However, I never really had it on my radar until Boyfriend bought it for me for my birthday on Tuesday. In his card he said he thought it was a book I would like, and he [...]
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This weeks Weekly Geek challenge (courtesy of Dewey at The Hidden Side of a Leaf) is about magazines. Right now, I don’t subscribe to any magazines, mostly because I can’t afford them and my living situation is in limbo. I did subscribe to The New Yorker awhile ago, but while I was in school I [...]
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I finally got started on the HTR&W Challenge I mentioned in my Weekly Geeks #9 post a couple weeks ago. I got Bloom’s book at Boarders in the middle of last week, but put off reading it over the 4th of July because I just didn’t feel like I could focus. However, I managed to [...]
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