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Movin’ On Down the Road 12 Apr 2013 | 07:00 pm
It’s been a damn good run, readers, and it’s time for the next thing. After four years of actively blogging here (The Book Lady was born on July 1, 2008), several months of blogging-around-the-edges, ...
The Book Lady’s 10 Best Books of 2012 22 Dec 2012 | 11:37 pm
Y’all, I have written and re-written and re-re-written this list a dozen times, and I only managed to arrive at a Top Ten when my Bookrageous cohosts Josh and Jenn basically forced me to for our 2012 ...
Inked!: My Ray Bradbury Tattoo 8 Dec 2012 | 03:00 pm
So, I did this last week: It’s a selection from Fahrenheit 451, one of my all-time favorites, and the first book that really changed me. ‘Stuff your eyes with wonder,’ he said. ‘live as if you’d drop ...
What Are Your Favorite Books of 2012? 2 Dec 2012 | 03:00 pm
Over at Book Riot, we’re surveying readers about their favorite books of 2012. There are no genre restrictions, no age or audience restrictions, and no authors or publishers campaigning for your votes...
10 Bookish Conversations I’m Totally Over 12 Nov 2012 | 03:00 pm
It’s a truth universally acknowledged that drama in the bookish internet is cyclical. Much like those hideous floral-and-lace-inset denim shorts that reappeared this summer (I’m pretty sure I owned a ...
So, I Read CLOUD ATLAS… 31 Oct 2012 | 01:00 pm
Because I cannot resist the opportunity to read an of-the-moment book with a super-hyped film coming out, I dove into CLOUD ATLAS with my Book Riot colleague and writing buddy extraordinaire Greg Zimm...
Books Are Not Sacred Objects 29 Oct 2012 | 01:00 pm
I wrote this for Book Riot a while ago and thought I’d share it here because I continue to be super-annoyed by people who see gorgeous crafts made from books and resort to the, “NOOOO, I could never h...
A Short Course in Getting It On: A Reading List to Spice Up Your Love Life 13 Sep 2012 | 02:00 pm
Every now and then, the perfect writing assignment comes along, the one that really couldn’t be more in your wheelhouse. That assignment came my way last week, and I spent the weekend having way more ...
Read It Now: WHY HAVE KIDS? by Jessica Valenti 4 Sep 2012 | 08:49 pm
Whether you have kids, are thinking about having kids, or have determined that you don’t want to have kids, you need to read Why Have Kids? Noted feminist writer Jessica Valenti (longtime readers wi...
If 90s Pop/Rock Lyrics Were Book Blurbs 29 Aug 2012 | 02:00 pm
My recent exercise in repurposing hip-hop lyrics into book blurbs over at Book Riot was so much fun, I had to have more of the music-literature crossover shenanigans. So I hopped into the Wayback Mach...
