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I’m so excited to share that I get to be a guest on That’s How I Blog, a show hosted by Nicole of Linus’s Blanket. We’ll be chatting about books and blogging and gossip, starting tonight, March 2 at 8 p.m. CST. Then at the end we’ll talk about Susan Jane Gilman’s memoir Undress Me In the Temple of Heaven!
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Thank you to everyone for entering my contest to give away a signed copy of Waiting for Columbus by Thomas Trofimuk. After counting the entries and turning to the random number generator, the winner is…
Jeanne from Necromancy Never Pays!
Congrats Jeanne, and the book is on the way 
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After a bit of a morbid week on the blog (I reviewed The Great Starvation Experiment and The Poisoner’s Handbook), I wanted to post something a little more cheerful today.
If you haven’t read it yet, Esquire’s recent feature of film critic Roger Ebert written by journalist Chris Johnson is just beautiful. I guess it’s a little sad, but it’s also well written, funny, and shows just how powerful a well-done journalistic profile can be. I can only wish to write something this lovely someday.
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Hunter S. Thompson is one of those writers a reader seems to either love or hate. I’ve never read Thompson for a number of reasons, but I always felt like I should if I planned to blog about literary journalism extensively.
A few months ago Care (Care’s Online Book Club) said she was starting her own John Cusack Reading Challenge, I was a little surprised to see Thompson’s giant book Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ‘72 on that list. I mentioned I wanted to read the book too, and lo-and-behold a mini-read-a-long was born.
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Last year and I read and loved Waiting For Columbus by Thomas Trofimuk. About a month ago, the author contacted me and offered to send a signed copy that I could give away here on the blog.
That’s right, I get to have a contest for a hardcover, signed copy of Waiting For Columbus! How exciting is that?
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Happy Monday, everyone! I wanted to use today to introduce you to the newest member of my family, my cat Hannah. I adopted Hannah from the Dane County Humane Society on Saturday, and so far things are going really well. She’s a sweet, mellow cat, but she loves to play too. She also loves to stick her head in my books and climb all over me when I read, so that might be an adventure.
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I am so excited to let you know that with the help of Jackie from Farm Lane Books, the Blog Improvement Project is going to continue this year!
We’ve created a dedicated blog for the project — thebip.wordpress.com — so please head over there for more information and to sign up if you’re interested.
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Today I had the honor of guest posting over at the Women Unbound Challenge blog. I wrote about the book that helped open my eyes to what the feminist movement could mean and inspired me to rethink my own political ideologies on the topic.
To find out what the book was, head on over to the [...]
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I’m behind with this, but it was too funny not to post. Last week SNL did a digital short mocking something I dislike, Twilight, using something I do like, Frankenstein. Hilarious!
My only quibble is that the big green guy isn’t actually Frankenstein; Frankenstein is the scientist, the green guy is The Monster. Can we try [...]
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The “In Real Life” book club I’m a part of meet on Tuesday to talk about The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye by A.S. Byatt. The book is a collection a short fairy stories that we generally enjoyed, although we didn’t have a lot to say about it. I’ll have a review of the book [...]
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