21 February 2012
420 Characters by Lou Beach
By Borah Coburn // Books
This is one of those books that I’ll be re-reading for a long time to come (this means I’m in love, folks). I might even get creepy and start memorizing …
20 February 2012
Mr. Darcy Doesn’t Love You
By Borah Coburn // Books
Okay. So I went to the bookstore recently, and I was just browsing around the bookstore, looking for something new and exciting to read, like I do, and I noticed …
19 February 2012
Be The Man… On A Wedding Cake
By Borah Coburn // Books
Be The Man is a step-by-step guide for grooms—going from planning the engagement ring and proposal, all the way to checklists for the big day—written by Chris Easter, the co-founder …
17 February 2012
Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk by David Sedaris
By Borah Coburn // Books
This is a weird little book. I picked Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk up on a whim, as I do with most books (I like a little chance involved in my life). …
16 February 2012
Throwbacks: The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters (Vol. 1)
By Borah Coburn // Books
Okay, I’m currently binging on books (even for me), so I ran out of books that I hadn’t read in my house (well, that’s a lie… there are medical …
15 February 2012
Alyxandra Harvey Haunts Violet
By Ann Fitzhenry Bedard // Books
In her young adult novel, Haunting Violet, Alyxandra Harvey takes us on a journey to Britain in the latter half of the nineteenth century. It is a world full of …
09 February 2012
Pride & Prejudice, The Murderous Sequel
By Ann Fitzhenry Bedard // Books
For fans of Jane Austen, like me, the publication of Death Comes to Pemberley was cause for a little celebration. The author, P.D. James, was born in Oxford in 1920, …
06 February 2012
Author Review: Jasper Fforde (So Ffar)
By Borah Coburn // Books
This part is a ramble/rant, but bear with me. Okay, so this may or may not be clear to you already, but just in case you missed it, or are …
29 January 2012
Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh
By Borah Coburn // Books
Evelyn Waugh was a British author best known for such novels as Brideshead Revisited and A Handful of Dust. He died in 1966, so he’s not exactly new news. Also, …
28 January 2012
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
By Ann Fitzhenry Bedard // Books
When I picked up this wonderfully researched and evocative novel, my knowledge of Ethiopia was woefully limited. Within a few pages, Abraham Verghese drew me in to a world of …
19 January 2012
Kill Bill (Shakespeare) Vol. 2
By Borah Coburn // Books
….Aaaaaand we’re back. Remember, Kill Shakespeare is a comic book series about two factions of Shakespeare characters trying to save or kill the god/wizard Will Shakespeare. In this corner, we …
16 January 2012
“Is Everybody Hanging Out Without Me?”
By Rachael Nisenkier // Books
If you watch NBC’s The Office, you already know Mindy Kaling. Or to be more specific, you know her on-screen counterpart: Kelly Kapur. And maybe you think that Mindy is …
13 January 2012
Crossed by Ally Condie
By Rachael Nisenkier // Books
I read Matched, the first in the trilogy that includes Crossed, in a sort of breathless blur. Left yearning as I was after finishing The Hunger Games, Matched seemed like …
10 January 2012
THE Hamlet
By Borah Coburn // Books
Faulkner’s The Hamlet is about a family of hicks (The Snopes) living in the boonies of Mississippi in a town called Frenchman’s Bend. The novel kicks off by introducing us …
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