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"It is likely I will die next to a pile of things I was meaning to read." -- Lemony Snicket
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February
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December 2014
09
Ceridwen - New ‘lost’ Ayn Rand novel will bring her crimes against literature to new generation of jerks
It was once wryly observed by author John Rogers that “(t)here are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s l...
October 2014
22
August 2014
31
Each issue of Lapham's Quarterly includes dozens of brief excerpts from historical literature on a particular topic. Spannin...
August 2014
30
Awhile back, Slate published an article denigrating the phenomenon of adults reading YA fiction. In my little black heart of...
August 2014
14
I once tried to devise a term to describe the euphoria a person feels when he approaches the end of a book he has not enjoyed...
August 2014
13
Everyone in this novel is an unlikable psycho. Fucking romantic comedy, man. Works way better on screen when you don't have t...
August 2014
05
This article rebuts (heh, rebuts) another article decrying textspeak as the worst thing ever we're all going to die civilizat...
August 2014
01
Extremely scientific parsing of what one's favorite book might mean in the context of dating. The writers don't mention the g...
July 2014
15
"She was an avid reader, which is almost the same thing as having friends."
June 2014
21
Now there is nothing left to do But scribble in the dusk and watch with the beloved Peach blossoms float downstream. Looking ...
June 2014
20
CONTINUING TO LOVE THIS. The Babylonians used a "sexagesimal" place value system, meaning that they counted in sixties in...
June 2014
07
This book is TERRIFYING. I am absolutely loving it, and have not been able to put it down... except last night. Even thoug...
May 2014
23
I am furious at myself for having avoided this book for so long, on the basis that, as I've heard and occasionally read, it w...
May 2014
14
”It is only in bad science fiction that the alien being acts like a costumed human, differing from the familiar only in appea...
Dark Places predates Gone Girl, and I think is a stronger book. I liked Gone Girl well enough, but this one is darker, harshe...