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Sunday Salon: Bookstore Rituals12 comments

Iris wrote 3 months ago: Bookstores are a little like a safe haven to me. When I step inside I usually feel at ease pretty fa … more →

Tags: Community/Weekly Events, Personal/Updates, London, bookstore, Browsing

200 years of Pride and Prejudice, and my new favourite adaptation26 comments

Iris wrote 3 months ago: Today marks the 200 year anniversary of the date on which Pride and Prejudice was first published. I … more →

Tags: Books, Community/Weekly Events, Fiction, Austen Inspired, Advent with Austen, Bicentennial, Jane Austen, lizzie bennet diaries, Pride and Prejudice

How blogging sometimes makes me hesitant to read...32 comments

Iris wrote 6 months ago: Book blogging has always been about the learning experience for me. I started a blog one day to prac … more →

Tags: Community/Weekly Events

TVD 4x04: or, the fail of watching through a gender-lens16 comments

Iris wrote 6 months ago: I was going to write another post today, but somehow I cannot get a word written. And the failure of … more →

Tags: Community/Weekly Events, Gender, TVD< The Vampire Diaries, 4x04, The Five

Sunday Salon: On Authors, Series, and New Releases13 comments

Iris wrote 7 months ago: On 27 September, a little over a week ago, The Casual Vacancy was released. The first novel by J.K. … more →

Tags: Community/Weekly Events, Chaos Walking trilogy, Harry Potter, J. K. Rowling, Margo Lanagan, Patrick Ness, Sunday Salon, tender morsels, The Casual Vacancy

Proper Storytelling and Crushed Expectations: The Vampire Diaries Season 35 comments

Iris wrote 1 year ago: As some of you might know, I am a closet Vampire Diaries fan. I know some will say that this show sh … more →

Tags: Community/Weekly Events, The Vampire Diaries, Elena, Dämon, Stefan, TV Show, season finale, season 3

Sunday Salon: "Preaching" and Practising Diversity in Reading7 comments

Iris wrote 1 year ago: This week, I participated in a discussion over at Jillian’s blog, A Room of Ones Own, on the W … more →

Tags: Community/Weekly Events, ethnicity, Gender, Classics, Diversity, Sunday Salon, canon

Sunday Salon: The TBR-Pile "Problem"24 comments

Iris wrote 1 year ago: I am up to 287 unread books now, out of the 456 I have catalogued on LibraryThing. A few more will b … more →

Tags: Community/Weekly Events, the bookshelves

Sunday Salon: On Celebrating Subjectivity20 comments

Iris wrote 1 year ago: It has been hard to escape the whirlwind of opinions surrounding bloggers as valuable and actual rev … more →

Tags: Community/Weekly Events

Sunday Salon: Confessions of an Insecure Reader48 comments

Iris wrote 1 year ago: Being a reader has become a much larger part of my identity than it was pre-blogging. I always enjoy … more →

Tags: Community/Weekly Events, Sunday Salon

The Sunday Salon: Sometimes All You Need are a Few Kind Words23 comments

Iris wrote 1 year ago: I was going to write a post about some of the new releases I look forward to this year. I never real … more →

Tags: Community/Weekly Events, Personal/Updates, My Friend Amy's blog, Book Blogging, Bloggish Reflections

The Secret Fanny Price Fanclub11 comments

Iris wrote 1 year ago: It appears there is no Austen heroine as universally disliked as Fanny Price from Mansfield Park is. … more →

Tags: Books, Community/Weekly Events, Fiction, Austen Inspired, Classics, Advent with Austen, Jane Austen, Mansfield Park, Mary Crawford

Sunday Salon: Winter Plans or, Care To Join Me?17 comments

Iris wrote 1 year ago: Come Tuesday, I will no longer be a university student. I am trying not to think about that too much … more →

Tags: Community/Weekly Events, Personal/Updates, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Betty Smith, Dodie Smith, I capture the castle, jonathan strange and mr. norrell, Read along, Susanna Clarke

Money, Banking, and the Federal Reserve

civiliansanity wrote 1 year ago: a great video on the biggest criminal organization in the world. The Federal Reserve Board. “W … more →

Tags: america, federal reserve, Economy, corruption

President Obama's Speech to Congress: 9-07-11

civiliansanity wrote 1 year ago: President Obama’s “American Jobs Act” speech to a joint session of Congress tonigh … more →

Tags: Politics, obama, American Jobs Act, Video, Speech

civiliansanity wrote 1 year ago: Gretchen Carlson being nutty at Jay Carney on FoxNews today. I agree with the proposal, our infrastr … more →

Tags: america, obama, & Jobs Act

God: The Political Puppeteer

civiliansanity wrote 1 year ago: If there’s anyone out there who can set me straight on this issue, I’d more than welcome … more →

Tags: God, america, Politics, Secularism

A Quick Blurb on Why I Believe in Science v Religion2 comments

civiliansanity wrote 1 year ago: I’m going off the top of my head so if this seems a little disorganized it’s just a coll … more →

Tags: Religion, God, Faith, Science

Um, so.. Yep: Book Buying 'Hiatus'16 comments

Iris wrote 1 year ago: After talking about the possibility of a book buying ban on twitter, someone sent me this in reply: … more →

Tags: Community/Weekly Events, Personal/Updates, Book Buying ban, book buying hiatus


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