David Foster Wallace – Consider the Lobster

Finished: May 14th, 2012 2012 Book Count: 22 For SN, with thoughtful thoughts. The first I had ever really heard of David Foster Wallace was from a book review of The Pale King by Laura Miller over at Salon.com. And

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David Foster Wallace – Consider the Lobster

Finished: May 14th, 2012 2012 Book Count: 22 For SN, with thoughtful thoughts. The first I had ever really heard of David Foster Wallace was from a book review of The Pale King by Laura Miller over at Salon.com. And

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Murakami Haruki – Norweigan Wood

Finished: April 18 2012 Book Count: 16 Norwegian Wood Well, this is my first foray into the project I was thinking about not too long ago, which was writing in English about books I read in Japanese. This is technically

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Murakami Haruki – Norweigan Wood

Finished: April 18 2012 Book Count: 16 Norwegian Wood Well, this is my first foray into the project I was thinking about not too long ago, which was writing in English about books I read in Japanese. This is technically

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2012 First Quarter Post-Mortem

Well, the first three months of the year have come and gone, so let’s check in with some stats! Q1 Book Count: 15 Compared to last year, that is actually kind of a poor showing. Q1 for 2011 finished at

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2012 First Quarter Post-Mortem

Well, the first three months of the year have come and gone, so let’s check in with some stats! Q1 Book Count: 15 Compared to last year, that is actually kind of a poor showing. Q1 for 2011 finished at

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Kailey Loves Magazines: Zoetrope: All Story

Zoetrope: All Story is the only magazine that I’ve ever had a real live subscription to that wasn’t National Geographic*. As with many of my favourite things, I found out about it on the marvelous and often mentioned tor.com, and

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Kailey Loves Magazines: Zoetrope: All Story

Zoetrope: All Story is the only magazine that I’ve ever had a real live subscription to that wasn’t National Geographic*. As with many of my favourite things, I found out about it on the marvelous and often mentioned tor.com, and

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‘Should’ Read vs ‘Want’ to Read

I was having a conversation a little while ago about books one ‘should‘ read (eg: James Joyce’s Ulysses) versus books you ‘want‘ to read (eg: mystery novels and vampire fiction). I came to the same conclusion I came to before,

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‘Should’ Read vs ‘Want’ to Read

I was having a conversation a little while ago about books one ‘should‘ read (eg: James Joyce’s Ulysses) versus books you ‘want‘ to read (eg: mystery novels and vampire fiction). I came to the same conclusion I came to before,

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HG Wells – The Island of Doctor Moreau

Finished: March 20, 2012 2012 Book Count: 14 Confession: I’ve never actually read anything by HG Wells before this. Shocking, I know. And not a little bit embarrassing. But the ice has been broken, so let’s move on. The Island of

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HG Wells – The Island of Doctor Moreau

Finished: March 20, 2012 2012 Book Count: 14 Confession: I’ve never actually read anything by HG Wells before this. Shocking, I know. And not a little bit embarrassing. But the ice has been broken, so let’s move on. The Island of

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Robert Heinlein – The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

Finished: February 21 2012 Book Count: 9 This book made me somewhat… uncomfortable, and I can’t decide if it was in a good way or a bad way. It is undoubtedly a Great Book with a pretty thrilling story, and

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Robert Heinlein – The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

Finished: February 21 2012 Book Count: 9 This book made me somewhat… uncomfortable, and I can’t decide if it was in a good way or a bad way. It is undoubtedly a Great Book with a pretty thrilling story, and

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George RR Martin is Ruining My Life

So – you all will remember when I decided to read Game of Thrones and watch the television show? Well, I read the book and enjoyed it, but somehow forgot to watch the television show. Oops. Anyway, the internet told

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George RR Martin is Ruining My Life

So – you all will remember when I decided to read Game of Thrones and watch the television show? Well, I read the book and enjoyed it, but somehow forgot to watch the television show. Oops. Anyway, the internet told

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Ray Bradbury – A Graveyard for Lunatics

Finished: February 15, 2011 2012 Book Count: 7 Still loving Ray Bradbury. What a fantastic, fantastic writer. A Graveyard for Lunatics isn’t one of his science fiction/fantasy novels, however. It’s a mystery story – and we all know how I

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Ray Bradbury – A Graveyard for Lunatics

Finished: February 15, 2011 2012 Book Count: 7 Still loving Ray Bradbury. What a fantastic, fantastic writer. A Graveyard for Lunatics isn’t one of his science fiction/fantasy novels, however. It’s a mystery story – and we all know how I

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No Haterade for me, thanks: I’m on a diet

I’ve noticed that I occasionally lapse in this really boring thing from a review/writing perspective, which is I seem to only be writing about things that I like. I feel like I only have the ability to gush about something

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No Haterade for me, thanks: I’m on a diet

I’ve noticed that I occasionally lapse in this really boring thing from a review/writing perspective, which is I seem to only be writing about things that I like. I feel like I only have the ability to gush about something

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Kailey Loves Comics: Brian Ralph’s Daybreak

Zombies are everywhere! It seems that everyone likes a good zombie these days. Personally, I think they are ridiculously frightening*. The only thing more frightening than zombies (because one zombie isn’t so bad, I guess; it’s when they run about

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Kailey Loves Comics: Brian Ralph’s Daybreak

Zombies are everywhere! It seems that everyone likes a good zombie these days. Personally, I think they are ridiculously frightening*. The only thing more frightening than zombies (because one zombie isn’t so bad, I guess; it’s when they run about

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Kailey loves Magazines: The Believer

How on earth did I never know of this magazine before now? I’m quite astonished that it’s slipped past me for so long – never mind that I’ve only recently started to be interested in magazines – I feel as

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Kailey loves Magazines: The Believer

How on earth did I never know of this magazine before now? I’m quite astonished that it’s slipped past me for so long – never mind that I’ve only recently started to be interested in magazines – I feel as

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