Top Ten Tuesday is an original feature/weekly meme created at The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s Top Ten Tuesday was originally supposed to be “Top Ten Authors I’d Like To See On A Reality Show,” but then some feedback about its difficulty made Jamie give us a Freebie Week, as well. Thank goodness, because–and […]
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Book Review: In One Person by John Irving
May 7, 2012
In One Person by John Irving Fiction Simon & Schuster Release date: May 8, 2012 Hardcover 448 pages Synopsis from the publisher: In One Person is narrated by Billy Abbott, one of Irving’s most tormented and impassioned protagonists. Billy grows up in First Sister, Vermont, a small town with two defining institutions: a boarding school […]
Top Ten Tuesday: The Next Ten Books at the Top of my TBR Pile
August 16, 2011
Top Ten Tuesday is an original feature/weekly meme created by The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s TTT is a freebie, meaning I can create any Top Ten list I would like. I have been so into reading Infinite Jest (which I finished last night) that I didn’t have a chance to enlist anyone to […]
Book review: The World According to Garp by John Irving
April 2, 2011
The World According to Garp by John Irving Fiction — Literary classic Dutton Adult, 1978 1st edition hardcover 437 pages Let me start by saying that The World According to Garp–first published in 1978 and the book for which John Irving won a National Book Award in 1980–now holds a spot on my list of […]

















May 15, 2012
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