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.

On the Nightstand.

Posted on September 11, 2011 by kara

Rich Boy by Sharon Pomerantz

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Stalwart Conservative Tomes Need to be Smoked Outta Their Holes

Posted on September 10, 2011 by kara

  The sorrowful scene at a closeout sale at an LA suburban Borders had the 22,000-square-foot space draped with those tragic yellow and red signs proclaiming, “Everything goes!” “Everything on sale!” and “Up to 90% off!” With but a few … Continue reading →

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Shelf Shuffling

Posted on September 5, 2011 by kara

I often hide the great works of the lunatic fringe with other books, because I am twelve.

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On the Nightstand

Posted on September 4, 2011 by kara

Room by Emma Donoghue Publication Date: September 2010, 336 pp

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Judge us not by our Summer Trash.

Posted on September 2, 2011 by kara

Labor Day is approaching, and I am racing to the finish to complete the last installment in a summer reading list so grotesque, so trashy, I shame myself. The post–Labor Day moratorium on white shoes and clothes has long ranked … Continue reading →

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On the Nightstand

Posted on August 21, 2011 by kara

I bought the downoad ’cause I was a-scared to have to look at the book cover. Inside Scientology by Janet Reitman Hughton Mifflin Harcourt, July 2011

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Dusty Tomes

Posted on August 10, 2011 by kara

MacLeod’s Books in downtown Vancouver has floor to cathedral-ceiling shelves teetering with books, books stacked on the floor, on chairs, on the steps. There is a nary a computer in sight, yet with the help of an exceedingly knowledgable staff, … Continue reading →

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Great Snacks in Literature

Posted on August 2, 2011 by kara

Nancy Drew’s Roadwise Meal from “The Sign of the Twisted Candle”. In The Sign of the The Twisted Candle, Nancy, George and Bess stop at a quirky roadside Inn stop for a light snack of tea and cinnamon toast, but when news … Continue reading →

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Full Disclosure, Confessions from the Bottom Shelf.

Posted on July 31, 2011 by kara

I cannot believe the unmitigated shit I’ve read during the month of July. I lay blame on: weakness of an addled mind that needs diversions from reality, and the ability to download salacious shit instantly onto my ipad in bed late … Continue reading →

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Books-A-Million Minus 30.

Posted on July 26, 2011 by kara

  The last-ditch deal that would have had Books-A-Million buy 30 Borders‘ stores –saving nearly 1000 jobs – fell to shit today, signaling a final and certain end for all Borders stores from sea to shining sea. Those 30 stores would have … Continue reading →

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