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On princes, mist, and double le sighs:
Whoa, whoa whoa.  I know I’ve been off the radar and all but when did Carlos Ruiz Zafon come out with a new book?  I wasn’t expecting this at all.  Especially since I waited almost six years (or something that felt like six years) for Zafon to come out [...]

On brothers, latrines, closing out the city, starting the big machine, and uncovering the hidden brain:
No excuses for my two-day silence.  Onwards and upwards, folks!  Besides, I’m feeling pretty good since I just polished off China Mieville’s The City & The City.  I’ll say only that I liked it, because I’ve found that the less [...]

On reading too many books, a bit of a conundrum, two cities, and a big machine:
What am I reading?  One too many books, that’s what.  I need help!  One of my goals this year was to cut down on the number of books I read at a single time.  I was doing pretty well too. [...]

On the everyday and the fantastic:
This book is now five days overdue at the library.  Normally, I would feel really bad about that, especially since other patrons have requested it and are waiting for it as we speak, but I am so happy that I didn’t return Rebecca Stead’s When You Reach Me before I [...]

On crappy internet service and a late library loot:
Yes, I know I’m a day late (as per usual), but my internet wasn’t working last night, and rather than give myself gray hairs cursing Time Warner’s crappy service, I decided to shrug my shoulders and curl up with one of my very good books.  Today’s Library [...]

On scary fairy tales and once upon a time:
Today’s teaser is taken from Ludmilla Petrushevskaya’s collection of short stories, There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor’s Baby: Scary Fairy Tales.
“The Miracle:”
There once lived a woman whose son hanged himself.
Which is to say, when she returned home from the night shift one [...]

I don’t usually talk about movies here on BiblioAddict, but this looks very interesting:

That comment about 50 cent and Madonna is priceless.  I can’t wait until this comes to a theater near me.  This looks like something I’d read much less watch.

On the Pulizer Prize for journalism, tainted justice, doctors playing God, and a childcare program gone horribly wrong:
So early last week, the winners of the 2010 Pulitzer Prize were announced.  True to form, I paid pretty close attention to the Letter, Drama, and Music category in which Tinkers by Paul Harding (Bellevue Literary Press) won [...]

On library loots and too many books to read:
It appears that today is library loot day, and boy do I have a mountain for you.  I may not have been blogging much in that last month or so, but I’ve spent a lot of quality time in the library checking out books I can’t possibly [...]

On the never-ending war and a correspondent with heart:
A few days ago, I started reading Dexter Filkins’ The Forever War.  I can tell already that this is going to be one of those books that shame me for letting it sit on my unread shelf for so long.  Superficially, The Forever War is about Afghanistan [...]