Month: March 2017
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Literary Linking: March 20 – 24
This week’s articles topics include: Clueless the comic book, wearing Handmaid’s Tale robes to the Texas Senate, a Muggle artifacts collection, and more! My favorite links from the week of March 20 – 24: Cool Job Alert: American Girl Hiring Is Hiring a Historian The American Girl company hasn’t been on my good side recently….
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The Best “Beauty and the Beast” Retellings
It would be an understatement to say I’m excited about the live-action version of Beauty and the Beast that came out this past weekend. I was humming “Tale as Old as Time” and “Be Our Guest” all last week. I realize Belle from the original animated film is not the perfect heroine, but there are…
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Literary Linking: March 13 – 17
This week’s article topics include: subverting Trump with literature, new info on Jane Austen’s death, the controversy of dog-earing books, and more! My favorite links from the week of March 13 – 17: Alexander and the V Bad, FML Day Read this – I promise you will laugh. It’s a digital-age take on Judith Viorst’s…
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Bookish App Review: Bookout
When I heard about Bookout, a new app that creates infographics of your reading life, I had to give it a try. Their tagline is: Reading made better. Did it in fact make my reading better? I’ll share my thoughts after I tell you a little more about the app 🙂 What does it do?…
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Literary Linking: March 6 – 10
This week’s articles cover topics including the coolest bookstores, famous writers most-used words, Margaret Atwood on The Handmaid’s Tale in the age of Trump, and more!: My favorite literary links from the week of March 6 – 10: 5 Things You May Not Know About Margaret Wise Brown Not sure who Margaret Wise Brown is?…
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Literary Linking: February 27 – March 3
This week’s articles cover topics including: new and angry words in the Oxford English Dictionary, a Jane Austen heirloom, creating a rainbow bookshelf, and more! My favorite literary links from the week of February 27- March 3: Inheriting a National Treasure: Aunt Jane Austen’s Ring Can’t really comprehend how this woman forgot that she was…
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What Did DC Read in February?
Aaaand we’re back with DC Commuter Reading! Sorry for the hiatus… I don’t really have a good excuse except that I kept falling asleep on my bus. So, welcome to this month’s round-up of what commuters from the District read on public transit, plus observations of the readers themselves. Maybe it’s you… 🙂 Here’s what DC…
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To Reread or Not To Reread? 10 Factors To Consider
I read recently that the United States publishes a little over 300,000 new titles a year. Even if I put only 1% of the new books published this year on my TBR list, I’d be adding 3,000+ titles to my reading plate. That’s just insanity. So, when I recently saw Goodreads’ announcement that they now…