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Focus On: Maggie Stiefvater
Ordinarily my “Focus On:” series centers around genres or key elements within books, but I’ve been loving one author so much this month that I thought she deserved a whole post. Firstly, you’ve heard me talk about The Scorpio Races before. It is one of the most masterfully done YA novels that I have…
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My Unexpected Hiatus
I know that I have stepped away from this blog before, when I had finals, when I was applying for jobs. Always with a good excuse. But this time my hiatus was a little different. Now that I am working in a library, I find it harder to talk about books outside of work.…
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Review: The Penguin Book of Witches
It’s no secret that I love reading books about witches and I’ve reviewed a fair few of them here on the blog (A Discovery of Witches, The Thinking Woman’s Guide to Real Magic, and others). When Penguin offered me a copy of the new Penguin Book of Witches edited by Katherine Howe, I jumped at…
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Book Review: Belzhar by Meg Wolitzer
Belzhar by Meg Wolitzer Rating: 2/5* *(first third 3/5, final third, 1/5) In what might be the first time ever, I did a 360 in my feelings for this book AFTER I started writing my review. I sat down to read Belzhar and had to stop two chapters in to write up my (gushingly…
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UK National Poetry Day 2014
Today is National Poetry Day in the UK! In lieu of subjecting you to my own poetical musings, I wanted to share one of my favorite poems. Lesbos by Sylvia Plath Viciousness in the kitchen! The potatoes hiss. It is all Hollywood, windowless, The fluorescent light wincing on and off like a terrible migraine, Coy…
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