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About kara

We know our letters just fine, and we know our numbers to a certain point, but books were always the realm of four-eyed poindexters with bowler hats and cravats. That’s why it pleases us so that America’s proud illiterates are finally stepping up and pushing back against the crushing tide of education that threatens to swallow us all into its gaping maw of checked facts. Champions of the Ignorantiat will not like it here.

Girls I Envied in Literature.

Posted on January 19, 2013 by kara

Laura Ingalls’ nemesis in On the Banks of Plum Creek, duh, Nellie Oleson. “Nellie Oleson was very pretty. Her yellow hair hung in in long curls, with two big blue ribbon bows on top. Her dress was think white lawn, with … Continue reading →

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Posted on January 3, 2013 by kara

Is there any book that has inspired so many delightful covers?

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Girls I Envied in Literature.

Posted on January 2, 2013 by kara

Snow Treasure is a story about Norwegian children assisting their motherland by smuggling millions of dollars of Nazi gold via sled, past the German army. Helga Thomsen is a 12-year old tomboy whose: “black curls hung like sausages from under … Continue reading →

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Posted on January 1, 2013 by kara

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Posted on December 19, 2012 by kara

I am sure I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round—apart from the veneration due to its sacred name and origin, if anything belonging to it can be apart from that—as a good time; a kind, … Continue reading →

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Great Snacks in Literature

Posted on December 19, 2012 by kara

Illustration from a 1915 edition of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, by Arthur Rackham, a famous late Victorian/Edwardian book illustrator. Ilustration is from the scene that Scrooge views in the Cratchit household whilst being escorted by the ghost of Christmas Present. “In … Continue reading →

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On the Nightstand

Posted on December 19, 2012 by kara

  The Path to Power By Robert A. Caro Publication Date: November, 2011

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Great Snacks in Literature

Posted on December 12, 2012 by kara

Snack: Chompo Bar Reference: A Birthday for Frances by Russell Hoban [Harper & Row, 1968] “Chompo Bars have a soft nougat part inside, and there is a chewy caramel part around that, and the outside is chocolate with nuts.” Although … Continue reading →

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On the Nightstand

Posted on December 12, 2012 by kara

  Afterwards by Rosamund Lupton Publication Date: April 24, 2012

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Posted on November 24, 2012 by kara

The other night I stumbled onto Franklin Court, Ben Franklin’s Printing Office and Bindery, Post Office and Bookshop on Market Street in Philadelphia

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