To celebrate the end of the year, we’re running some of our favorite posts from the last six months. We’ll be back with all-new stuff on January 7th. ____________________________ It happens all the time: I’m shelving books at the bookstore where I work, and the covers start to bleed together because they all look the [...]
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To celebrate the end of the year, we’re running some of our favorite posts from the last six months. We’ll be back with all-new stuff on January 7th. ____________________________ I am but an innocent man, devoid of all pun gills. Here’s why. When I saw the #literarybars hashtag on Twitter last week, I believed the [...]
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To celebrate the end of the year, we’re running some of our favorite posts from the last six months. We’ll be back with all-new stuff on January 7th. ____________________________ We already know what our book piles say about us, but what do our bookshelves say about us? Are we any sort of creative with how [...]
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To celebrate the end of the year, we’re running some of our favorite posts from the last six months. We’ll be back with all-new stuff on January 7th. ____________________________ I went through a phase, a few years back, when all I was reading was what we call Chick-Lit. I started becoming increasingly unhappy, and [...]
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To celebrate the end of the year, we’re running some of our favorite posts from the last six months. We’ll be back with all-new stuff on January 7th. ____________________________ I’ve written before about the myth of Papa Hemingway’s toughness. Not that he wasn’t tough, anyone who visits war zones, has adventures, and plays dangerous sports [...]
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To celebrate the end of the year, we’re running some of our favorite posts from the last six months. We’ll be back with all-new stuff on January 7th. ____________________________ The Sketchbook by Eduardo Leon Garrido Still-Life of Books by Jan Davidsz de Heem Portrait of a Man holding a book by Rogier van der Weyden St [...]
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To celebrate the end of the year, we’re running some of our favorite posts from the last six months. We’ll be back with all-new stuff on January 7th. ____________________________ It’s like a murder mystery for word dorks. A new book by a prominent linguist and lexicographer alleges that one of the most respected chief editors [...]
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To celebrate the end of the year, we’re running some of our favorite posts from the last six months. We’ll be back with all-new stuff on January 7th. ____________________________ Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen’s 1813 novel of manners, morality, and money, is one of my most beloved novels. I love Elizabeth like she’s a member [...]
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To celebrate the end of the year, we’re running some of our favorite posts from the last six months. We’ll be back with all-new stuff on January 7th. ____________________________ I love books, I really do, and I believe in giving all books I start a fair chance. But sometimes the books just don’t manage to [...]
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To celebrate the end of the year, we’re running some of our favorite posts from the last six months. We’ll be back with all-new stuff on January 7th. ____________________________ If you were to diagram my brain, there would, of course, be a big section devoted to books. And right next to it, an almost-as-big section [...]
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To celebrate the end of the year, we’re running some of our favorite posts from the last six months. We’ll be back with all-new stuff on January 7th. ____________________________ What is true of the movies is also true of books: sometimes, the sequel is even better than the original. The Empire Strikes Back; Godfather 2; [...]
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To celebrate the end of the year, we’re running some of our favorite posts from the last six months. We’ll be back with all-new stuff on January 7th. ____________________________ My literary pet peeve is readers who have pet peeves. That’s a statement that surely won’t make me popular, but stay with me for a second. [...]
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To celebrate the end of the year, we’re running some of our favorite posts from the last six months. We’ll be back with all-new stuff on January 7th. ____________________________ We recently listed a few great secret bookcase passageways, but bookish architecture isn’t limited to its Nancy-Drew-Mystery-House impression. There’s also the subject of a truly comfie-cozy [...]
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To celebrate the end of the year, we’re running some of our favorite posts from the last six months. We’ll be back with all-new stuff on January 7th. ____________________________ This past weekend, my Very Special Man Friend went all Jane-Austen-Nicholas-Sparks-Shakespeare-Writing-Sonnets on me, got down on one knee, and asked me to marry him. You guys, [...]
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To celebrate the end of the year, we’re running some of our favorite posts from the last six months. We’ll be back with all-new stuff on January 7th. ____________________________ On more than one occasion, I have witnessed, or even been a part of, a book-related conversation that included at least one person saying, “But I’m [...]
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To celebrate the end of the year, we’re running some of our favorite posts from the last six months. We’ll be back with all-new stuff on January 7th. ____________________________ It takes a special type of person to be thinking about gravestones and ghosts on a bright, sunny summer day. But after hearing what HG Wells [...]
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To celebrate the end of the year, we’re running some of our favorite posts from the last six months. We’ll be back with all-new stuff on January 7th. ____________________________ For my 40th birthday back in June, I got myself a library card thanks to some gentle shaming from Book Riot commenter InfoMissionary. Also an iPad. [...]
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To celebrate the end of the year, we’re running some of our favorite posts from the last six months. We’ll be back with all-new stuff on January 7th. ____________________________ Frequently grim, but just as often daffy, each season of AMC’s Breaking Bad crystalizes into pure, novelistic TV drama. Like The Wire before it, the show [...]
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To celebrate the end of the year, we’re running some of our favorite posts from the last six months. We’ll be back with all-new stuff on January 7th. ____________________________ Yeah, I know, I know. How dare we use old books for crafts. But these are a great opportunity for the crafty among us to upcycle [...]
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To celebrate the end of the year, we’re running some of our favorite posts from the last six months. We’ll be back with all-new stuff on January 7th. ____________________________ The bookish internet exploded last week when, in what one report called “the worst craft idea ever,” Lauren Conrad (star of MTV reality shows and author [...]
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