A bookworm journalist blogs on literature and life
Madison is going to be hit with a massive snowstorm tonight bringing 6-11 inches of snow along with some freezing rain. I’m not a big fan of that, so I wasn’t in the best mood on my bus ride home today. However, when I got to my front door and found a colorfully wrapped package, [...]
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If you haven’t seen it already, I just read this post sharing that Dewey (The Hidden Side of a Leaf) passed away last week. I’m not really sure what to say except that this is obviously an indescribable loss for her family and friends. It’s also a huge loss for the book blogging community. I [...]
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This is just a quick post to mark Thanksgiving, one of my favorite holidays. I’m one of those people that refuses to hang up Christmas decorations or sing Christmas carols or talking about Christmas shopping before Thanksgiving because, frankly, I really hate the way the Christmas season starts right after Halloween. I think Thanksgiving gets [...]
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I love being an English nerd that understands obscure literary references. Brownie points for anyone else who knows what short story this comic from xkcd refers to! Click on this link for the answer.
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Stephen King has an article in Entertainment Weekly called “Who Days Real Men Don’t Read?” where he talks about the publishing industries perception that men don’t read. Even though most current bestsellers are written by women, King says the idea that men who read are disappearing is false. King also has some gender ideas about [...]
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At the end of October I had a celebration for my 100th blog post and decided to host my first giveaway. I asked people to comment, link to the post, and otherwise help me think about my blog. The winner of a book of their choice from my blog is Care from Care’s Online Book [...]
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Care at Care’s Online Book Club tagged for for the Four Things Meme. I still love the novelty of being tagged, so here we go! Four Jobs I’ve Had: Flow Team Member at Target Student Publicity Assistant at the Center for Small Towns Intern with The Morris Sun Tribune Intern with The Hugo Citizen Four [...]
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Marg over at Reading Adventures tagged me to post six things about myself. I don’t really get tagged for stuff like this very often, so it’s actually kind of exciting. One: My sister drove all the way to Madison this weekend (from the Twin Cities) so that we could hang out and go see High [...]
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Right now, I have four books in progress, and just bought two more at Borders today. I really want to start finishing things, but I have such a distracted personality at the moment no book holds on to me long enough for me to make any real progress. That, and I don’t have much time [...]
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I’m not much of a movie person, so the fact that I’ve now seen two movies in two weeks is an anomaly. I wouldn’t normally post reviews or thoughts on movies, but I had such strong reactions to both of them I thought it would be appropriate. The first movie I saw was Persepolis, an [...]
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