The only bad thing about Downton Abbey, the latest smash hit from across the pond, is that its seasons are too bloody short! I’d been looking forward to the second season ever since the first one ended, and now it’s all over already.
Britain in the first half of the 20th century is one of my [...]
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Downton DTs
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Ouch, That’s Harsh!
Entertainment Weekly has posted a collection of 15 Scathing Book Reviews. My favorite? The one that made me chuckle was for The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, which I haven’t read myself yet (I know, I know) but it wasn’t so much the critique of the book that made me giggle as the slam against John Grisham. In [...]
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Ahoy, Matey!
I logged onto me LibraryThin’ account this evenin’ and was met with a booty-licious change – yon scoundrels have the entire site be in Pirate-ese, in celebration o’ International Talk Like a Pirate Day!
Aye, if you ha’en’t seen it, go o’er and take a gander, tis’ quite funny seein’ all the normal talk translated int’ pirate-speech. [...] -
Eight Things
Since I’ve been tagged for this meme by Tara, Eva and Historia, I figured I should probably go ahead and offer up my eight things. But since this is a book blog, I’ve kept my answers along that theme.
I own almost 600 books, but since I periodically purge my bookshelves, I now have more unread [...]
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Gentlemen, Start Your Engines!
Or rather, fire up your laptop, crack open your writing notebook, and nimble up those fingers, because today marks the kickoff of National Novel Writing Month 2007. Last year was my first attempt at NaNoWriMo, and I managed to ‘win’ by ekeing out just over 50,000 words and finishing up a couple hours before the [...]
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