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AAR Book Club Discussion: A New Date
Well, these things happen, don’t they? Due to circumstances beyond our control, the Book Club Discussion of Welcome to Temptation by Jennifer Crusie has been moved from this weekend to Sunday, November 15th at 4 p.m.,…
Anthology Season
I had planned to blog on something entirely different this week, but reading Katie’s blog last week made me think about one of my favorite times to read category books – the end of the year.…
Hand Washing: Can You Go Too Far?
We’ve all seen the signs and heard the announcements. Washing your hands is one of the best ways to avoid contacting, or passing along, all kinds of illnesses. Many of us carry hand sanitizers at all…
Categories: The Bastard Children of Romance
Last week on our message boards a discussion arose about category romances – specifically, whether or not one reads them and why. For those of you who don’t know, categories (a.k.a. “series romances”) are the shorter,…
Stuff White People Like
Wait. Don’t freak out. I’m not racist. Stuff White People Like is the absolutely brilliant, hilarious, and politically incorrect blog and book created by Christian Lander. The 128-item list of Stuff White People Like includes Sushi,…
The Joys of City Reading
I was reading J. D. Robb’s Promises in Death, and suddenly the lines of an early Stephen Sondheim song ran through my head: Once I hated this city/Now it can’t get me down Slushy, humid and…
Storing All Those Books
Recently, I sorted some of my bookshelves. Truth to be told, I mostly did it in order to procrastinate doing some other work, but when I had finished, I was really pleased: The books looked so…