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On booking through Thursday and winter reading:
Today’s Booking Through Thursday:
The northern hemisphere, at least, is socked in by winter right now… So, on a cold, wintry day, when you want nothing more than to curl up with a good book on the couch … what kind of reading do you want to do?
There’s something about [...]

On why Jane Austen is special to so many people:
I’ll let these people do all the talking.  They’ll do a much better job than I ever could.
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Happy Friday, folks.

On new year’s resolutions, the TBR shelves, the book beast, old and new friends, and magazine madness:
A word:  I’m terrible at New Year’s Resolutions.  The only year I’ve ever stuck with my resolution is in 2001 when I vowed to follow Polonius’ advice, “To thine own self be true.”  That was the year I graduated [...]

On sense, sensibility, and sea monsters:
Remember when, a couple of months ago, I read and reviewed Pride and Prejudice and Zombies?  Well, this Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters post is the bizzaro-world post of that.  Nearly everything you will read in this post is the exact opposite of what I wrote in the P&P&Z [...]

On thankfully reading weekend, sea monsters, ghosts, and same sex unions:
You probably don’t need me to tell you that I didn’t get nearly as much reading done as I’d planned.  I figured it was an ambitious plan to begin with, but well, a girl can dream, right?  I didn’t keep a page count, because I’m [...]

On sense, sensibility, and…well, sea monsters:
Story One: A few months ago, after I’d read both Pride and Prejudice and Emma for the first time, I attempted to tackle Sense and Sensibility. I… didn’t like it.  I found Marianne exceedingly annoying and her sister Elinor just as boring.  To be fair, I didn’t get very far [...]

On pride, prejudice, and brain-eating zombies:
Earlier this year, I heard of the imminent publication of a little book called Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.  Now, I love me some zombies.  There’s just something about the dead rising from their graves to eat and infect the living that makes me all tingly inside.  Have I mentioned [...]

So. I just polished off my copy of Beginner’s Greek by James Collins.  Normally, I would add this to the bottom of my review pile, promise to post my thoughts as soon as possible, and then feel more and more guilty for not having done so as weeks turn months.  Today, I decided to try [...]

It’s been kind of quiet around here this week this week, I know.  I’ve been short on sleep and well, the energy just wasn’t there.  But I wanted to share this small bit of weekend love.
As most of you already know, Quirk Books, the publisher of the immensely popular (and much derided) Pride and Prejudice [...]

On failed and successful New Year’s Resolutions, hitting 50, a year for young adults, and Austenmania:
I haven’t done Musing Monday in far, far too long.  Or, Short Story Mondays for that matter.  No matter how hard I try, schedules and routine are clearly not my bag.  But this week’s Musing Monday was too good to [...]