Archive for July, 2013
Famous Quotes
Italo Calvino Quote
“A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.” - Italo Calvino Rate this post
Cute Quotes
Super Hero - Cute Book Quote
“Being a book reviewer is like being a super hero. Don’t you want to be a super hero?” -William Yatscoff Rate this post
Fresh Ink
An Interview with Self-published Author Jeremy Sandlin
An interview with Self-Published Author Jeremy Sandlin A Guest Post by Christy Howell-Hoots Jeremy Sandlin is an up and coming self published author. His first book “The Council” was published by Publish America in 2008. His ...
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Mark Twain Writing Quote
“The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug.” - Mark Twain Rate this post
What Should I Read Next
The Lost by Vicki Pettersson
I feel like I’m the odd woman out here but I actually enjoyed this installment more than the first one. Pettersson toned down the rockabilly and angelic aspects this time around which are, oddly enough, what make this trilogy s...
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Carmen Callil Quote
“Books are like gardens; a Kindle or an iPad like a supermarket – it makes life easier, but one doesn’t want to loiter in it.” - Carmen Callil Rate this post
What Should I Read Next
The Bellwether Revivals by Benjamin Wood
In The Bellwether Revivals, Oscar Lowe is an odd man out at Cambridge. Though he reads widely in literature and philosophy, he grew up working class on an estate, didn’t go to university, and now works at Cedarwood nursing home...
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Poetry to Prose
According to novelist and short story writer Joyce Carol Oates, “poetry focuses upon the image, the particular thing, or emotion, or feeling, while prose fiction focuses upon motion through time and space.” Based on...
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What to read? (Part 2) Like / don’t like
According to Roland Barthes, the laziest form of literary criticism is that which focuses purely on enjoyment. In a famous passage from Roland Barthes (translated here by Richard Howard) he questions the validity of an aestheti...
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Love The Hunger Games Movie? What to Read While Waiting for Catching Fire.
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins has been wildly popular in both bookstores and box offices. The second movie in the trilogy, Catching Fire, is scheduled for release on November 22, 2013. Waiting is hard, but it doesn’...
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
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A Bibliophile’s Miscellany: The Lost Art of Letter Writing
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Hey Lolita, Hey: Bands Named After Literary Characters
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Review: Under the Same Stars by Tim Lott
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Reading Paraphernalia
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Best Titles for Book Reading Clubs
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Review: S3 by Fourat Janabi
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Summer Lovin’: 5 love(ish) stories for summer reading
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Summer Reading Special: A Bibliophile’s Miscellany of France
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I was a Pre-teen Book Nerd in the 90s
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Review: Handfuls of Bone by Monica Kidd
