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Old Black Witch (and Blueberry Pancakes)8 comments

Karen wrote 4 months ago: By Wende Devlin and Harry Devlin You know, I logged on to WordPress tonight to rave about the pancak … more →

Tags: How to Cook like an Amateur, shameless self-promotion, Recipe Review, quilt, Naked Scientists, naked archaeology, old black witch, wende devlin, Harry Devlin

The Monsters of Templeton2 comments

Karen wrote 4 months ago: By Lauren Groff Fair to middling. That’s how I rate this book. I guess that gives it 2 1/2 sta … more →

Tags: Book Club, Book Review, A.S Byatt, Possession, monsters of templeton, lauren groff, Michael Cunningham, The Hours, James Fenimore Cooper

Something Wicked This Way Comes

Karen wrote 5 months ago: By Ray Bradbury We read this book for my real life book club; out of three options, this is the one … more →

Tags: Book Club, gingerbread, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, adel medium brown, Ray Bradbury, something wicked this way comes, mitochondrial eve, Hansel and Gretel, Joseph Campbell

Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors

Karen wrote 6 months ago: By Nicholas Wade This book is the selection for the second month of the International League of Skep … more →

Tags: Book Club, International League of Skeptical Readers, Book Review, are we alone?, international league of skeptics, Before The Dawn, Nicholas Wade, jared diamond, guns germs steel

East of Eden

Karen wrote 7 months ago: By John Steinbeck So it’s been a while since I’ve read a book, and I feel the lack of it … more →

Tags: Book Club, john steinbeck, East of Eden

The Mind of the Market: Compassionate Apes, Competitive Humans, and Other Tales from Evolutionary Economics

Karen wrote 7 months ago: By Michael Shermer This book represents the debut of an online book club I am hosting at the Interna … more →

Tags: Book Club, International League of Skeptical Readers, international league of skeptics, field of dreams, Ray Kinsella, About Schmidt, ndugu, Michael Shermer, mind of the market

On the Origins of Gender Inequality4 comments

Karen wrote 7 months ago: By Joan Huber I am ashamed to admit that this book is the first book I’ve read in a really lon … more →

Tags: lesbian nun sex, Breastfeeding, Christianity, Grant Miller, joan huber, New York Times, Nicholas Kristof, Nursing, on the origins of gender inequality

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo2 comments

Karen wrote 9 months ago: By Stieg Larsson We read this book for book club last week. In Sweden the book is titled Men Who Hat … more →

Tags: Book Club, Library, iPod, the girl with the dragon tattoo, Stieg Larsson, men who hate women, Sweden, Mystery, Cryptonomicon

No One's a Mystery1 comment

Karen wrote 10 months ago: By Elizabeth Tallent No_Ones_a_Mystery Well, on the fly close reading isn’t exactly what I had … more →

Tags: observations, elizabeth tallent, no one's a mystery, Short Story, Art Bell, Whitley Strieber, Richard Hoagland, mels hole, Roseanne Cash

The World Without Us2 comments

Karen wrote 10 months ago: By Alan Weisman I started this book at some point in December and read it across more than a month, … more →

Tags: lesbian nun sex, Alan Weisman, Book Review, Earth Day, world without end, world without us

Otherland (Volume 1): The City of Golden Shadow

Karen wrote 10 months ago: By Tad Williams I grabbed this book at the library for the same reason that I always grab books at t … more →

Tags: Vellum, Otherland, city of golden shadow, Tad Williams, Cassandra Clare, City of Bones, mystical negro

The Nature of Blood

Karen wrote 10 months ago: By Caryl Phillips I picked this book from the library because Fella and Filly were getting rambuncti … more →

Tags: the nature of blood, Caryl Phillips, Venice, Bridge of Sighs, Israel, Flannery O'Connor, benito cereno, a rose for miss emily, a jury of her peers

The Member of the Wedding2 comments

Karen wrote 10 months ago: By Carson McCullers You gotta admit that’s one groovy book cover. So this book was our selecti … more →

Tags: Book Club, The Member of the Wedding, Carson McCullers, Captain Hammer, John Henry, steel driving man, Nathan Fillion

The End of Gender: A Psychological Autopsy

Karen wrote 11 months ago: By Shari L. Thurer I started writing this September 15, 2008, and never came back to it: It’s … more →

Tags: end of gender, shari thurer, Psychotherapy, cyborg feminist, Freud, Postmodernism

Cathedral of the Sea--Abandoned!

Karen wrote 11 months ago: By Ildefonso Falcones I stopped reading this book at page 252 of 603–I read through chapter 25 … more →

Tags: Ken Follett, Cathedral of the Sea, Ildefonso Falcones, santa maria del mar, Arnau, aledis, Pillars of the Earth, bastaixos, barcelona

Japan Sinks

Karen wrote 11 months ago: By Sakyo Komatsu I have no idea where I got the idea to read this book. None. It’s Japanese sc … more →

Tags: Book Review, Science Fiction, Sci-Fi, japan sinks, Sakyo Komatsu, +Nihon Chinbotsu, nippon chinbotsu, Supervolcano, Yellowstone National Park

Odysseus Unbound: The Search for Homer's Ithaca2 comments

Karen wrote 11 months ago: By Robert Bittlestone I totally dug this book, even though those bastards at the library didn’ … more →

Tags: Book Review, Babylon 5, Odysseus Unbound, robert bittlestone, Ithaca, The-Odyssey, Homer, The Iliad, Hector

Duh-rama, Josephine B., and Potato Peel Pie

Karen wrote 1 year ago: I am behind on writing about books. I have been caught up in an Internet drama, and watching two riv … more →

Tags: observations, Book Club, How to Cook like an Amateur, FDR--Not Just Another Evil Statist, Book Review, Stefan Molyneux, freedomain radio, Liberating Minds, the guardian

The Story of Edgar Sawtelle

Karen wrote 1 year ago: By David Wroblewski So Book Club was last night, but the conversation about the book was seriously l … more →

Tags: Book Club, Book Review, home owner association, david wroblewski, Edgar Sawtelle, hamlet, kittens, cupcakes, three fallen women


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