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 November 28, 2014 by kara

Before I go to Sleep by S.J Watson (Harper Paperbacks, Paperback, 9780062060563, 368pp.) Publication Date: February 2012  

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On the nightstand

Posted on October 26, 2014 by kara

  The Dark Side of Innocence: Growing Up Bipolar By Terri Cheney(Atria Books, Hardcover, 9781439176214, 288pp.) Publication Date: March 1, 2011  

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Science Sleuths

Posted on October 10, 2014 by kara

Ebola, global warming, heat death, yadayadayada, it seems as if even day a new type of medical or environmental horror is attacking us from the headlines. The Vallows are sciencey people, engineers, doctors and research scientists and me, a cartoonist … Continue reading →

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On the nightstand

Posted on September 20, 2014 by kara

Manic: A Memoir By Terri Cheney (William Morrow Paperbacks, Paperback, 9780061430275, 272pp.) Publication Date: February 2009  

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Posted on September 5, 2014 by kara

from the site 28dayslater Library in the beautiful, spooky abandoned and obviously haunted Château de la Forêt  

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On the Nightstand

Posted on August 11, 2014 by kara

Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic By David Quammen (W. W. Norton & Company, Paperback, 9780393346619, 587pp.) Publication Date: September 2013  

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Posted on August 5, 2014 by kara

Readers, I have a broken arm and it such a pain in  the butt to type with one hand. Instead of writing anything, I am reading dozens of books from across the spectrum which I will report back on when … Continue reading →

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On the Nightstand

Posted on August 5, 2014 by kara

Harvey Cushing A Life in Surgery By Michael Bliss (Oxford University Press, USA, Paperback, 9780195329612, 591pp.) Publication Date: August 2007

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On the Nightstand

Posted on August 4, 2014 by kara

Wild From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail By Cheryl Strayed (Knopf, Hardcover, 9780307592736, 336pp.) Publication Date: March 20, 2012  

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Posted on August 1, 2014 by kara

This is grotesque: How Can a Gentleman Appear Well-Read?

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