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.

Read (pronounced red)

Posted on January 22, 2016 by kara

The Newton Papers The Strange and True Odyssey of Isaac Newton’s Manuscripts By Sarah Dry Oxford University Press, USA, Hardcover, 9780199951048, 238pp. Publication Date: May 1, 2014

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Read (pronounced red)

Posted on January 22, 2016 by kara

Bastard Out of Carolina By Dorothy Allison Plume Books, Paperback, 9780452297753, 320pp. Publication Date: February 28, 2012

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Reading

Posted on December 15, 2015 by kara

Down and Out in Paris and London By George Orwell Mariner Books, Paperback, 9780156262248, 228pp. Publication Date: March 1972  

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REVEALED!

Posted on December 2, 2015 by kara

Americans, are you familiar with Enid Blyton’s Famous Five series of books? There are 21 of them and I’ve read every one. They are about a group of children who have fantastical adventures while home from boarding school. The Telegraph … Continue reading →

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Undercover Girls

Posted on November 23, 2015 by kara

In the Old Days, many book covers, particularly teen books covers, used to wend towards photographs of real people. or paintings OF photographs, a technique that has sadly been entirely obviated by Photoshop. Anyway, some of these cover models had … Continue reading →

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Reading

Posted on November 23, 2015 by kara

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READ (pronounced “red”)

Posted on November 21, 2015 by kara

Between the World and Me By Ta-Nehisi Coates Spiegel & Grau, Hardcover, 9780812993547, 176pp. Publication Date: July 14, 2015   1 word review: necessary

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READ (pronounced “red”)

Posted on November 21, 2015 by kara

Troublemaker Surviving Hollywood and Scientology By Leah Remini; Rebecca Paley Ballantine Books, Hardcover, 9781101886960, 256pp. Publication Date: November 3, 2015   1 word review: illiterate  

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READ (pronounced “red”)

Posted on November 21, 2015 by kara

Girl in a Band – a memoir by Kim Gordon   1 word review: BORING

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READING

Posted on November 21, 2015 by kara

      Walter Chandoha the cat photographer Interviews by David La Spina and Brittany Hudak   1 word review: important

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