7 minutes ago by mayakda

The Magicians and Mrs. Quent by Galen M. Beckett My rating: 5 of 5 stars A wonderful new favorite! The Magicians & Mrs. Quent is a fantasy pastiche of Austen and Bronte, with flourishes that seem inspired by Dickens and Lovecraft. That makes it sound like some kind of crazy patchwork quilt, but it i ...

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12 minutes ago by Federica

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14 minutes ago by kenwheaton

I’m on the 4 Train commuting to work this morning. Somewhere along the line, a couple blunders into the train. The woman takes a seat and the guy almost gets his jacket caught in the closing door. “The fuck off of me. Give me my jacket,” he curses, but laughs at the same time. Seems like someone’s h ...

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20 minutes ago by laria_gwyn

I recently read Anne Bishop's Shalador's Lady. It was a whole lot better than Tangled Webs and The Shadow Queen, IMO. The characters truly came alive and the story was engaging throughout. I felt like Bishop really struck a balance this time between writing about these spiffy new characters yet not ...

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21 minutes ago by Ann Althouse

This was the story of my life, 25 years ago. My ex-husband wrote a novel about it. I couldn't believe, back then, the way this problem persisted. And now, here's this guy writing about it and getting an Instapundit link as if it's a fresh problem yielding new insights. These deeply embedded sex role ...

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25 minutes ago by Carrie

What a gorgeous book. The cover got me first, with its soft colors and emotional portrait of a little girl’s feet. I could just tell it was going to be a good book. I was definitely not disappointed. It took me a little while to get used to the style of writing that Audrey Niffennegger uses to tell ...

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26 minutes ago by Amy

I came to the realization that I did not read a single book in February. It's a good thing i didn't set a book goal in 2010 because I would be far behind. Currently I am reading The Sharper Your Knife, The Less You Cry. It is a nonfiction account by one woman who uses her life savings to attend Le C ...

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35 minutes ago by Jeff Duntemann

Back in my Febrary 23, 2010 entry, I began a series about the pulp fiction mags of the first half of the 20th Century. Because most people would assume I'll be talking about SF, I deliberately went elsewhere, to a category most of my readers have probably never even heard of: railroad fiction. I bou ...

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38 minutes ago by Brad Smith

I am currently reading this. What's more, I'm kind of loving it. I'm embarassed that, after so much complaining that I never have/take the time to read, this is the book that hooks me, but hey, it's still nice to be reading regularly again, and a literary impulse-buy at that. I'm about halfway throu ...

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42 minutes ago by Mike

Yesterday I was walking along “West Queen St. West”, the hipper cousin to the commercial strip known as Queen West, and I came across a funky furniture store with some real Canadian flavour and heavy style going on (hence the name “Style Garage” I guess!). Style Garage has been at the corner of Quee ...

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