Christmas comfort food

Since the much-hyped Mayan apocalypse failed to materialize today, I can finally look forward to Christmas! I mean, just as soon as I clear out a space in my doomsday bunker where I’ve stockpiled canned foods, weaponry, and a Nibiru-English dictionary, I’ll be able to hunker down and enjoy my favorite part of the Christmas […]

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Book review Tuesday: The Line of Beauty, by Alan Hollinghurst

I recently finished Alan Hollinghurt’s The Line of Beauty, winner of the 2004 Man Booker Prize for fiction.  It is an excellent and intimidating book: excellent in that it’s exquisitely plotted and crafted, intimidating for the very same reasons.  One of the reviewers on the back cover (Publishers Weekly) raved that it is “almost perfectly […]

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Book review Tuesday: The Giver Quartet, by Lois Lowry

Since I’ve been off the radar for a week, I feel that I must make up for it by giving you some bang for your blogging buck.  Today, I want to talk about a series of books I recently finished, the so-called The Giver Quartet, by Lois Lowry.  Four book reviews for the price of […]

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