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Okay, I know that every other book blogger out there read The Thirteenth Tale before I did — but I stayed up until one o’clock last night to finish it, and it blew my mind, and so I’m going to talk about it anyway. Y’all can just lump it. Or, if you like, you can [...]

Have you ever had one of those books that sat on your wishlist for so long that, when you finally got a copy, you couldn’t remember why it was on your wishlist in the first place? And then, when you started reading, you really couldn’t imagine why you wanted it, because it was just so [...]

This book: it’s good! I mean, that’s not a huge surprise, I really liked John Green’s other books and occasionally drop by his blog as well. Seems like a smart kind of dude. Writes good stuff. But I was still a little bit surprised that I liked this book so well. Here’s the thing: it [...]

This book is simultaneously encouraging and horrifying. Pamela Paul’s Parenting, Inc.: How We Are Sold on $800 Strollers, Fetal Education, Baby Sign Language, Sleeping Coaches, Toddler Couture, and Diaper Wipe Warmers — and What It Means for Our Children has a doozy of a title and also one heckuva message. I think I can sum [...]

Somewhere, somewhen, I have seen or heard Three Men in a Boat described as “the funniest book in the English language”, and I am not inclined to disagree. Very, very few books can actually make me laugh out loud — but here, I found something new to giggle at on almost every single page. It’s [...]

This book, Reconciliation: Isalm, Democracy, and the West, came into my house via my brother — or via his friend Z, rather, who gave the book to my brother in hopes that he might read it. But I yoinked the book from him before such a thing could happen, and so far my brother hasn’t [...]

Nancy Drew! Oh, how your absurdities delight me. Oh, it is all too much to bear. I can’t speak about this. I will have to show you, internet. Here are the first four paragraphs of The Secret of the Old Clock: Nancy Drew, an attractive girl of eighteen, was driving home along a country road [...]

I first encountered this book back in about grade seven or eight, when our class read it together. I remember liking it quite a bit, and also bring frustrated with the class’s pace in finishing it — most of the reading was done out loud, and I tended to get in trouble for not knowing [...]