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Monthly Archives: January 2014
On the Nighstand
My Struggle, Book 1 by Karl Ove Knausgaard (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Paperback, 9780374534141, 448pp.) Publication Date: May 28, 2013
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More Terrible than Fiction (update!)
What fiction writer – if any – could have conceived of Sarah Palin without completely blowing the boundaries of reality? Dickens? Shakespeare? Ruth Rendell? In children’s fiction, maybe, where a parodic lunatic still has its place. It’s not really … Continue reading
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Tagged edgar allan poe robot, michele bachmann evil, mitt romney creepy, mitt romney cyborg, mitt romney robot, narnia white witch, narnia white witch turkish delight, newt gingrich evil, newt gingrich monster, roger chillingworth, rush limbaugh drugs, rush limbaugh mr hyde, sarah palin grendal, sarah palin monster
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Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles MacKay www.bnpublishing.com, Paperback, 9781607960744, 484pp.) Publication Date: January 2009
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Incest and Arsenic: I Reread “Flowers in the Attic” so you don’t have to.
SPOILER ALERT: if you’ve managed to avoid this book for the past 35 years. Because of Lifetime’s new movie adaptation of Flowers in the Attic, I got to thinking about this ridiculous book. V.C. Andrews’ best-selling “novel” of bad parenting, greed, … Continue reading
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Why I Wanted to be Poor, Sick, Crippled, or Dead.
Carol Bird, the dying Christmas Swan I really became a bookworm around the age of 8, and the books I read then lodged themselves in my brain forever. Primarily because I read them over and over and over again. Between … Continue reading
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Girls I Envied in Literature
Lisalottie from Lisa and Lottie Two nine-year-old girls meet on a summer camp in Bohrlaken on Lake Bohren. Rude Lisa Palfy from Vienna is a tomboy with wild curls. Shy Lottie Horn from Munich is polite and has neat braids. Apart … Continue reading
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On the Nightstand
Sweet Tooth by Ian McEwan Nan A. Talese, Hardcover, 9780385536820, 320pp.) Publication Date: November 13, 2012
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Things in Books
in Little House in the Big Woods, the Ingalls live in rural squalor, at subsistence levels. Ma has a single ornament, a little china woman – a shepherdess – with a china bonnet, china curls that hang against her china neck, a china … Continue reading
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Elizabeth Jane Howard
After a career spanning more than 60 years, the writer Elizabeth Jane Howard, has died at aged 90. Jane (as she was always called) achieved a triumph in her 70s with The Cazalet Chronicle, a highly praised tetralogy of novels … Continue reading
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