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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.

Little do such men know the toil, the pains, the daily, nightly racking of the brains, to range the thoughts, the matter to digest, to cull fit phrases, and reject the rest.

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On the Nightstand.

The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA Editor: Duncan, Ian Publication Date: 20100606

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My Bookhouse book series by Olive Beaupre Miller (née Olive Kennon Beaupré) (1883 – 1968)

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Poisonous Pencils

About two of my favorite people, who hated each other. The Bruiser by William Hogarth (created and printed in 1763). William Hogarth (1697 – 1764) Painter/printmaker/social critic/editorial cartoonist/pioneer of western sequential art paints and the Old King Cole of English pictorial satire, depicter … Continue reading

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On the Nightstand.

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Happy Mother’s Day.

If you are expecting a collection of sordid punk rock anecdotes, put down this book and pick up the unauthorized Courtney Love biography. This punk rock The Bell Jar is an achingly sad and complex memoir by the grieving mother … Continue reading

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Derby Day Cover Cavalcade

                           

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Madame Bovary, le Bébé Lapin, C’est Toi

Les sexy rendezvous in Yonville-l’Abbaye! Erotic encounters at the ball at the Chateau de la Vaubyessard! Sexual escapades in the Hotel de Boulogne! Emma Bovary, the raven- ringleted farmer’s daughter from Normandy was an honorary Bunny in Playboy’s August, 2010 … Continue reading

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Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone. -Paul Tillich, … Continue reading

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