On the Road, by Jack Kerouac

April 24, 2012

Title: On the Road Author: Jack Kerouac Pages: 313 Originally Published: 1957 Format I Read: Hardback Publisher: Penguin Rating: ____________________________ I originally gave this book two stars on goodreads, just moments after I finished it. I was rather disgusted with it. But, in the ensuing days, the book stuck with me and won itself an [...]

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Read-a-Thon Mini-Challenge Hour 16: Rereading

April 21, 2012

**UPDATE: The winner (randomly selected by random.org) of a book from The Book Depository is Melissa from The Avid Reader’s Musings. Though the prize has been awarded, please feel free to keep commenting and posting about your rereads. Happy read-a-thon-ing! Congratulations on making it to hour 16 of the read-a-thon! Here’s a mini-challenge to give [...]

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TOON Books: The Shark King

April 21, 2012

It’s no secret that I’m a big fan of TOON Books, a delightful line of comics/graphic novels for children. I’ve read and reviewed almost every book in the TOON Books line here on The Bluestocking Society, including Jack and the Box, Stinky, Mo and Jo: Fighting Together Forever, Luke on the Loose, Benny and Penny [...]

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2012 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Fiction

April 16, 2012

The 2012 Pulitzers were just announced. And this year’s winner for fiction is . . . NO AWARD! The committee did not award a prize for fiction this year. This has happened before, in 1917, 1920, 1941, 1946, 1954, 1957, 1964, 1971, 1974, and 1977. Usually, the reason for not giving an award is unclear. [...]

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Random Book Giveaway Winners

April 15, 2012

Drum roll please. The winners of the random book giveaway are as follows: Jenny from Alternate Readality wins Witches of East End. Laura Kay from A Novel Review wins The House of Velvet and Glass. Congratulations to them, and thank you to everyone that entered.

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Random Book Giveaway

April 11, 2012

Welcome to the Random Book Giveaway. I recently received the following two unsolicited books from publishers. Unfortunately, I just won’t be able to read them any time soon, so I thought I’d pass them along. From the author of the highly addictive and bestselling Blue Bloods series, with almost 3 million copies sold, comes a [...]

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Mini Reviews

April 10, 2012

Sadly, I fell WAY behind on my 2011 reviews. So, occasionally, I’ll be posting mini reviews to help catch up. This is round three. Check out round one and round two, if you like. Though all of these books deserve their own posts, this will have to do. The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake, by [...]

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First Love, Last Rites, by Ian McEwan

April 5, 2012

I can sum up this collection of eight stories in one word: disturbing. I have some more words for it though, if you’re interested: macabre, beautiful, crafted, horrific, and tragic. But even better than my words are Ian McEwan’s words, quoted frequently below. But first, in general, note that I have to be rather opaque [...]

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