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 May 20, 2014 by kara

Remember Me by Trezza Azzopardi Publication Date: January 7, 2005

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How to Write a Million Books.

Posted on April 24, 2014 by kara

Preamble: As someone who has been trying to slog through the first chapter of the writing of a novel for the past 3 years, I am amazed and perplexed by people who can churn out books at a rapid clip. … Continue reading →

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On the Nightstand

Posted on March 31, 2014 by kara

  The Sky is not the Limit by Neil deGrasse Tyson Book Binding: Paperback Pages: 203 ISBN: 978-1-59102-188-9 Shipping Weight: 1lbs

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On the Nightstand

Posted on February 25, 2014 by kara

The Magus by John Fowles (Dell, Mass Market Paperback, 9780440351627, 672pp.) Publication Date: April 1, 1985  

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I read The King in Yellow, so you don’t have to.

Posted on February 21, 2014 by kara

Everybody is talking about the King in Yellow, because they are watching True Detective. I decided to read it – not to write about its influence on True Detective. The King in Yellow is a collection of short stories written … Continue reading →

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On the Nighstand

Posted on January 26, 2014 by kara

My Struggle, Book 1 by Karl Ove Knausgaard (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Paperback, 9780374534141, 448pp.) Publication Date: May 28, 2013

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More Terrible than Fiction (update!)

Posted on January 26, 2014 by kara

  What fiction writer – if any – could have conceived of Sarah Palin without completely blowing the boundaries of reality? Dickens? Shakespeare? Ruth Rendell? In children’s fiction, maybe, where a parodic lunatic still has its place. It’s not really … Continue reading →

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On the Nighstand

Posted on January 21, 2014 by kara

Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles MacKay www.bnpublishing.com, Paperback, 9781607960744, 484pp.) Publication Date: January 2009

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Incest and Arsenic: I Reread “Flowers in the Attic” so you don’t have to.

Posted on January 18, 2014 by kara

SPOILER ALERT: if you’ve managed to avoid this book for the past 35 years. Because of Lifetime’s new movie adaptation of Flowers in the Attic, I got to thinking about this ridiculous book. V.C. Andrews’ best-selling “novel” of bad parenting, greed, … Continue reading →

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On this Date!

Posted on January 10, 2014 by kara

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