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The Literary Gothamite: July 2015
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Book Reviews and Metropolitan Musings. Top Ten Tuesday: Ten Recently-Acquired Books. Top Ten Tuesday is an original feature of The Broke and the Bookish. This week's theme: Last Ten Books that came into my possession. Some of these are from my Christmas haul because I was incapacitated for so long, and had little chance to be gathering more books! 1 The Ecstasy of Influence: nonfictions. I'm working through this one right now. 2 Horseshoe Crabs and Velvet Worms:. The Story of the Animals and Plants That.
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The Literary Gothamite: September 2013
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Book Reviews and Metropolitan Musings. I Know What I Did This Summer, or On Writing and Stress. In this time, I managed to find my entertainment elsewhere. I saw one of Roundabout's productions called The Unavoidable Disappearance of Tom Durnin. And a musical adaptation of Love's Labour's Lost. And I went to my first NYMF show which happened to be the show I did at Fringe (and the Westchester Square Festival) last year, The Hills are Alive. I also watched The Hunger Games. Yepthat kind of summer. Which w...
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The Literary Gothamite: June 2012
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Book Reviews and Metropolitan Musings. Review: Dumb History - The Stupidest Mistakes Ever Made, by Joey Green. The Stupidest Mistakes Ever Made. May 29, 2012. When I received Joey Green's Dumb History: The Stupidest Mistakes Ever Made. From Plume, I (mistakenly) assumed that it would not only be about history, but also follow the Dave Barry style of mocking said history. After all, the title is Dumb History. Alas, I was wrong on both counts. Are both of these mildly interesting? Sure Are they mistakes?
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The Literary Gothamite: July 2014
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Book Reviews and Metropolitan Musings. Top Ten Tuesday: the top ten authors represented in my collection. Top Ten Tuesday is an original feature of The Broke and the Bookish. Ten Authors I Own The Most Books Of. Or, if we're being grammatically correct:. Top Ten Authors Represented in My Collection). 1 Jane Austen (14). Yes, I know what you're going to say: she only wrote 6 books! And Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters. In case anyone's counting, there are two different editions of Emma. I own the fi...
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The Literary Gothamite: April 2013
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Book Reviews and Metropolitan Musings. Mailbox Monday 4.29.13. Mailbox Monday is hosted this month by MariReads. Hello, happy readers! This week I received a handful of books from Knopf in anticipation of their spring and summer 2013 releases. I'm pretty excited about all of these and actually started in on one of them the second I got it, so look for a new review soon! By Simon Critchley and Jamieson Webster. Due out June 25, 2013. Due out June 4, 2013. The Girl Who Loved Camellias. Due out June 11, 2013.
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The Literary Gothamite: December 2012
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Book Reviews and Metropolitan Musings. Mash-up Fiction: That's "Pulp", not "to a pulp". I have this teeny weeny soft spot in my heart for mash-up fiction. Vampires, zombies, werewolves, sea monsters.okay, not so much sea monsters. Although if someone were to mash up Jane Austen and Jaws. I'd probably be there. But because this soft spot is so small, there's not much room for challenging what I like. So here's where it gets tricky: Jane Slayre. A school teacher training her to kill zombies (which becomes ...
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The Literary Gothamite: May 2013
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Book Reviews and Metropolitan Musings. Top Ten Tuesday: Freebie. Top Ten Tuesday is a meme from The Broke and the Bookish. This week's topic is a freebie, meaning I get to pick my own. Generally, it's recommended that you peruse the past topics for one you may have missed, etc. Instead, I checked out what my fellow bloggers were posting. At The Broke and the Bookish they posted their top ten ingredients for a perfect day of reading. But it was Tsuki's Books. Where I found the topic I wanted to stick with:.
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The Literary Gothamite: December 2013
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Book Reviews and Metropolitan Musings. Top Ten Tuesday: 2014 Releases We're Dying to Read. Hello, and welcome back to TLG for another Top Ten Tuesday. Top Ten Tuesday is always hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. Top Ten 2014 Releases We're Dying to Read. I'm cheating, with 10 new ones I'm excited about, and one anniversary release that I want to buy right now:. 1 Shirley, a novel. By Susan Scarf Merrell. A literary thriller about the novelist Shirley Jackson, due from Blue Rider/Penguin in June 2014.
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The Literary Gothamite: May 2014
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Book Reviews and Metropolitan Musings. Review: I, Iago, by Nicole Galland. William Morrow, 2012. Everyone knows Othello, right? One of William Shakespeare's more popular plays? Generally required reading at some point in high school English classes? The parrot sidekick in Disney's Aladdin. Who never really lives up to his namesake's potential until the third film in the trilogy, Aladdin and the King of Thieves,. Is named after the villain? In the case of Nicole Galland's I, Iago. William Morrow, 2012) we...
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