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Would you buy Charles Dickens' toothpick?6 comments

Keith Staskiewicz wrote 2 days ago: Modern celebrities are used to having every little item they touch turn to golden treasures in the e … more →

Tags: - AD: Holiday Gift Guide, - AD: None of the Above, Celebrity, Charles Dickens, Cormac Mccarthy, gifts, Quirk

Holiday book-giving etiquette: Do you hold your nose and buy the book the recipient actually wants?32 comments

Kate Ward wrote 2 days ago: The holiday is rapidly approaching, Shelf Lifers. You know what that means: You only have a few more … more →

Tags: - AD: Holiday Gift Guide, - AD: None of the Above, Bad Books, Fiction, gifts, Memoirs, nonfiction

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

yoursunshinee59 wrote 1 week ago: Hello! This is completely late, not to mention untimely, but I took a trip to Disney World for Thank … more →

Auntie D's Bookmobile25 comments

bschooled wrote 2 weeks ago:       Auntie D is back! And just in time to cash in on the crazy Christmas rush. Follow me (figurati … more →

Tags: Fashion Trends, Humor, WTF, Bookmobile, Mom Fashion, Penis-free since '93

The Offical To-Read List...

jetcitygirl wrote 3 weeks ago: Happy Monday morning, everyone. Well… as happy as a Monday morning can be, anyways. I could go … more →

Tags: Books, Monday Wake-Up Song, Music, Rambles, starbucks, monday morning wake-up song

Colum McCann's 'Let the Great World Spin' wins National Book Award2 comments

Thom Geier wrote 1 month ago: Let the Great World Spin, Irish-born writer Colum McCann’s well-received novel about 1970s New … more →

Tags: Ad industry news, Fiction, Awards, Dave Eggers, Poetry, nonfiction

Exclusive: Quirk announces a prequel to 'Pride and Prejudice and Zombies'15 comments

Tina Jordan wrote 1 month ago: EW has learned exclusively that Quirk — the publishing house that brought you Pride and Prejudice an … more →

Tags: Ad industry news, - AD: None of the Above, Jane Austen, zombies

Auntie D's Bookmobile55 comments

bschooled wrote 1 month ago:        Well, look who we have here…It’s Auntie D! And she’s here today (figurative … more →

Tags: Humor, relationship, WTF, Stupid, cougar, Engrish, Bookmobile, My friend is not a slut

Mo wrote 2 months ago: The latest completed project I just spent 45 minutes composing my review of this book. This was lost … more →

Tags: Books, Reading, Russian novels

Auntie D's Bookmobile 47 comments

bschooled wrote 2 months ago:       Auntie D and her concubine are back, wandering aimlessly through cyberspace to show off some o … more →

Tags: Humor, WTF, office, Bookmobile, dinner party recipes, chin ornaments, awkward

Top Five Must-Read Transgressive Novels2 comments

Magda Ess wrote 2 months ago: So. You’ve read this far into the blog, heard it mentioned several times, maybe even heard the term … more →

Tags: Book Reviews, Transgressive Fiction

'The Phantom Tollbooth' author and illustrator collaborating on a new book11 comments

Keith Staskiewicz wrote 2 months ago: Set your watch-dogs because the team that brought us the beloved children’s book The Phantom Tollboo … more →

Tags: Ad industry news, News, Fiction, The Phantom Tollbooth, Children's Books

Gabriel Garcia Marquez tops list of most influential books of the past 25 years18 comments

Keith Staskiewicz wrote 2 months ago: This past quarter-century has been the 25 Years of Solitude. At least according to a new poll from t … more →

Tags: - AD: None of the Above, News, Fiction

Only Time Can Tell...3 comments

CoolnWeird wrote 2 months ago: Not more 5 years ago I bought a book entitled “LES MISERABLES” authored by Victor Hugo. … more →

Tags: Quotations, Thoughts, COOL&WEIRD, Life, Inspiration, qoutations, time, Les Miserables, Lea Salonga

Small house at Allington

Raylene wrote 2 months ago: Since reading The uncommon reader by Alan Bennett, I have been trying to read a few more ‘worthy’ or … more →

Tags: Favourite Reads, The Small House at Allington, Anthony Trollope, Classics

Kindle shmindle2 comments

stefpie wrote 2 months ago: One night last week, Ush and I planned to go to the cinema.  We were either going to see Dorian Gray … more →

Tags: Chatting away, Books, Movies, District 9, adventureland, Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde, Nintendo DS, Wuthering Heights

Lowbrow vs. highbrow literature: The debate continues!67 comments

Kate Ward wrote 2 months ago: Forget the expanding congressional divide. Literature is seeing its own structural breakdown, thanks … more →

Tags: - AD: None of the Above, Dan Brown, Enough Already, john grisham, News

Classic children's books we'd like to see receive the Hollywood treatment53 comments

Keith Staskiewicz wrote 2 months ago: This weekend saw the release, and box-office success, of Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, an anima … more →

Tags: Ad film, - AD: None of the Above, Dave Eggers, Film Adaptations

Literary icons take the plate!6 comments

Kate Ward wrote 3 months ago: Baseball just got a little more high-brow: An outfit called Novel-T is launching a line of baseball … more →

Tags: ad fashion, - AD: None of the Above, Quirk


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