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“A book-binding museum?! We’re going!” Beer and waffles are all well and good, but when planning my recent stay in Antwerp, Belgium, I knew that I had to make a pilgrimage to the Plantin-Moretus Museum. A bunch of old bo... -
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Review: The Paper Garden by Molly Peacock
I first came across Mary Delany’s intricate paper flowers at an exhibition held at one of London’s great treasure troves, the Sir John Soane’s Museum, in early 2010. Though at the time I recognized the flower mosaics as gorgeou... -
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Review: Under the Same Stars by Tim Lott
Somewhere between the high culture of the Cain and Abel story (via both Genesis and John Steinbeck’s East of Eden) and the low culture of a buddy road trip flick lies Under the Same Stars by Tim Lott. Despite the cheesy title a... -
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Review: S3 by Fourat Janabi
It had to happen sometime: one of the myriad books I’m sent to review, for Bookkaholic or other web and print publications, was bound to be a turkey. I’m afraid this (dis)honor belongs to S3: Science, Statistics, and Skepticism... -
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Summer Lovin’: 5 love(ish) stories for summer reading
Beach books have become synonymous with “Chick Lit,” an often condescending term for light-hearted books by women and about women that assumes predictability and a story about shoes, cosmos, and Mr. Right (the liter...
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Sightseeing for Book Nerds: A Tour of Antwerp’s Plantin-Moretus Museum
“A book-binding museum?! We’re going!” Beer and waffles are all well and good, but when planning my recent stay in Antwerp, Belgium, I knew that I had to make a pilgrimage to the Plantin-Moretus Museum. A bunch of old bo... -
What Should I Read Next
Review: The Paper Garden by Molly Peacock
I first came across Mary Delany’s intricate paper flowers at an exhibition held at one of London’s great treasure troves, the Sir John Soane’s Museum, in early 2010. Though at the time I recognized the flower mosaics as gorgeou... -
What Should I Read Next
Review: Under the Same Stars by Tim Lott
Somewhere between the high culture of the Cain and Abel story (via both Genesis and John Steinbeck’s East of Eden) and the low culture of a buddy road trip flick lies Under the Same Stars by Tim Lott. Despite the cheesy title a... -
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Best Titles for Book Reading Clubs
Book clubs are great, but sometimes agreeing on titles can be a challenge. You want to choose a title that’s not too new or else not everyone can get a copy or it’ll be the most expensive hardback in the bookstore. ... -
What Should I Read Next
Review: S3 by Fourat Janabi
It had to happen sometime: one of the myriad books I’m sent to review, for Bookkaholic or other web and print publications, was bound to be a turkey. I’m afraid this (dis)honor belongs to S3: Science, Statistics, and Skepticism... -
What Should I Read Next
Summer Lovin’: 5 love(ish) stories for summer reading
Beach books have become synonymous with “Chick Lit,” an often condescending term for light-hearted books by women and about women that assumes predictability and a story about shoes, cosmos, and Mr. Right (the liter...
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Working in London has allowed me many a random celebrity sighting. Those have ranged from the political (the Deputy Prime Minister’s wife and Princess Anne, a more minor royal) to the clerical (former Archbishop of Canterbury R...
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I have a little theory that all of the new contenders for the title of ‘Great American Novel’ are required to include an episode of scatological humor. Think of Jonathan Franzen’s Freedom (2010), in which a young man must sift ...
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This time of year is beautiful in the city and, while going for a walk this week, I passed by a gorgeous garden with a chalkboard in the center bearing some of the lyrics to Amy Gerstler’s poem “In Perpetual Spring....
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Book Review: Above All Things by Tanis Rideout
Let’ get this out of the way first. I won’t lie. Part of the reason I picked up this book is that since we both have the same last name, I can read the praise on the outside back cover (“Rideout has that all-t...
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