Author Archives: kara

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.

The Koch Brothers’ Vision for America will Destroy Everything you Love Including your Public Library

Posted on May 4, 2016 by kara

Libraries. A place where people too poor to afford Internet access at home can access information and communities that will help them participate in the political process. Or as conservatives call them: Lie-berries: a direct danger to the our dystopian … Continue reading →

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Posted on April 30, 2016 by kara

Savage Harvest A Tale of Cannibals, Colonialism, and Michael Rockefeller’s Tragic Quest for Primitive Art By Carl Hoffman William Morrow & Company, Hardcover, 9780062116154, 322pp.

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Ramona Quimby, C’est Moi.

Posted on April 20, 2016 by kara

Beverly Cleary, who turned 100 last week, has written more than three dozen children’s books over the course of her life, starting with her first book, “Henry Huggins”, in 1950. Cleary was working as a librarian when a group of little … Continue reading →

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Posted on April 15, 2016 by kara

Nancy smiling in front of a Hill Street book exchange in Eagle Rock

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Posted on April 14, 2016 by kara

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Posted on April 2, 2016 by kara

A Little Life By Hanya Yanagihara Doubleday Books, Hardcover, 9780385539258, 736pp. Publication Date: March 10, 2015

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John Stanley

Posted on March 22, 2016 by kara

John Stanley was born in Harlem, NYC on this date in 1914., so happy birthday, John Stanley. Stanley is one of my all-time favorite comics writers, the most consistently funny, the most consistently idiosyncratic, and the most handsome writer to ever … Continue reading →

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Posted on March 9, 2016 by kara

Steps to an Ecology of Mind by Gregory Bateson By Gregory Bateson; Mary Catherine Bateson (Foreword by) University of Chicago Press, Paperback, 9780226039053, 533pp. Publication Date: April 15, 2000

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Posted on February 21, 2016 by kara

The Girl with No Past By Kathryn Croft Bookouture, Paperback, 9781910751244, 302pp. Publication Date: October 2, 2015

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Posted on February 20, 2016 by kara

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