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Bookish Thoughts: Book Blogs Part Two

I know that I told you a good month ago that I’d get part two up in the next week or so, but you know how that goes, right? Right.
Here is a link to my original list of book blogs that I love, and I’m just going to pick up right where I left off.
DeRaps [...]

Flashback Friday: Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, by Alvin Schwartz
I have always been a little bit morbid.  I know I’ve told you that before, but it just comes up so often.  This week I was struggling between Summer of My German Soldier and Scary Stories.  Huh?  I guess even as a kid I was quite [...]

Review: Jungle

The Book: Jungle: A Harrowing True Story of Survival, by Yossi Ghinsberg
The Story: This is a wild one. This guy, Yossi, is traveling in South America and meets up with a couple other guys who are doing the same thing.  They form a quick friendship.  They meet a guy named Karl who tells them that [...]

Built-Ins from Heaven

We’re moving to a new apartment in a couple of weeks.  We have some furniture that is too ugly or too annoying to bother moving so we’re starting fresh in some areas.  One of those is my bookshelf situation. Suffice to say that it is sad and annoying.
I was Googling today for some inspiration of [...]

Review: The Lost Summer of Louisa May Alcott

The Book: The Lost Summer of Louisa May Alcott, by Kelly O’Connor McNees
The Story: Most fans of Little Women know at least a little bit of Louisa May Alcott’s history.  Her dad was part of a pretty influential group in Concord, but seemed a little nutty about transcendentalism.  She had three sisters, who she kind [...]

The only reason I’d ever move to Kansas City…

This is their library:

Most amazing thing ever.

Bookish Comic

Drew, at Toothpaste for Dinner, does it for me every time.

Dear Junot Diaz,

It seems that while writing The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, you may have misplaced all of your quotation marks. Here, have some of mine.
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100th Post Winner!

On Friday, I celebrated my 100th post by buying a good book for one of my readers.
Today, I used a random number generator that picked the number 10.
That means Sadie, of Our Little Pebbles is getting a shiny  new book in the mail!!
Congrats Sadie!
Thanks again to everyone who reads my blog and who entered the [...]

Bookish News: Ramona is going to be a movie?!

How am I just hearing about this? First the Baby-Sitter’s Club makes a comeback then this!? I feel like these people are tapping into my little book-loves-memory-bank and having a heyday.

Too cute, huh?  If you haven’t hit cute overload yet, check out the Ramona and Beezus website. Cute to the max.
So excited.