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The Best Books I Read in 2011

January 25, 2012

I realize this is post is little late, but I was otherwise lazy preoccupied. Since Mr. B gave me an iPad for my birthday and I started commuting by train, I have been going through books like crazy. I think I must have read around 30 books last year. The hard part is finding really good books. Those are the books you don’t want to put down even though it’s 11:49 and you have work tomorrow.   Fortunately, I’ve sifted ...

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A Guest Post about Outlander by Diana Gabaldon

January 2, 2012
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Comic: Recent Reads

October 12, 2011

Can you tell I don’t have enough time?

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Book Review: The Magicians by Lev Grossman

August 29, 2011

My life has been pretty chaotic lately. New job, new school, new house, and, thanks to that whoreicane Irene, now we have a sinkhole situation in our driveway. However, when I started reading The Magicians last week, I could feel the chaos melting away and I knew right away this book and its sequel, The Magician King, were going on my list of favorite books. I heard about The Magicians when it first came out, but for some reason I ...

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Book Review: Salt: A World History

July 6, 2011

It’s been a while since a book review, hasn’t it? I picked this up at my local library because I like histories of things, I like food, and I LOVE salt. So does Mark. Salt is, as you might have guessed, about the history and importance of salt in human life and how it’s shaped our politics and cuisine over the past 2,000 years. It’s not quite linear, instead being broken up by civilizations and jumping back and forth throughout ...

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