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Favorite fiction : Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein Favorite non-fiction : The Black Count by Tom Reiss Favorite mystery/thriller : ...

You know the weirdest thing about listening to Nick Boulton as Male Hawke after listening to Nick Boulton as every Laura Kinsale character...

Funny, insightful, inspiring! Check out this video . ETA: And this important commentary .

Thoughtful article on YA genre .

New Zealand style! The public library has little subject stickers that are placed on the spines of books. One of them is for NZ stories/auth...

Anonymous asked: A billionaire, a white American, and a black single mother are sitting at a table with a dozen cookies. The billionaire ta...

...because some things you do and don't know that you do them. Some other things you do out of mindless habit. But some things, even ...

Give this one a read!

Title: The Haunting of Hill House Author: Shirley Jackson Publisher:  Penguin (2006) Originally published in 1959   Anyone keeping t...

Back before Breaking Bad was Breaking Bad (before even the pilot aired, actually) I had some interest in seeing the show. I admire Cransto...

Have real life to participate in... but how is one to sign off when completely overtaken by the giggles after seeing this Technical Support ...

An oldie but goodie from The Book Smugglers about book covers (with resources and links) and a little about book content.

Be a Human.

It's recently occurred to me that I shared my S/Paul-on-the-way-to-Damascus conversion experience with The Prince of Midnight audiobook...

Too good not to share. I've actually made a small habit of going to view illuminated manuscripts when possible but I've obviously ...

Title: Black Hawk Down: a story of modern war Author: Mark Bowden Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press (1999)   Here we are at the end...