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astripedarmchair.wordpress.com - 16 hours ago
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As part of Rebecca and Heather’s Really Old
Classics Challenge , I recently finished up two books...
published pre-1600. They were both fabulous, and they made me want to read a lot more books from medieval and ancient times. Arabian Nights trans by Hussein Haddawy I started reading ...
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Two Really Old, Really Awesome Classics: Arabian Nights ...
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astripedarmchair.wordpress.com - 41 hours ago
A Canadian Hat Trick: Obasan, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, and Green Grass, Running Water
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I find myself again wanting to review books
in order to take my mind off other things....
So today, I’ll talk about the Canadian books I’ve been reading! I finished three in November, which brings my total for the Canadian Challenge up to ten (I need to read and review thirteen in ...
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A Canadian Hat Trick: Obasan, The Sweetness at the ...
astripedarmchair.wordpress.com - 2 days ago
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I’ve turned off comments for this post. I
wanted you guys to know what was going on,...
since I mentioned in in my Sunday Salon post. But at the same time, I’m still too raw to really talk about it; I haven’t had a death in even extended family since I was very little, and all ...
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Rest in Peace, Grandpa
astripedarmchair.wordpress.com - 5 days ago
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I wasn’t going to post today; on Thanksgiving
we got some bad family news, and since then...
I’ve been too distracted to really get into blogging. But I’ve been reading a lot this week (hmmm…I wonder why? it couldn’t be that books are my comfort and escape, lol), ...
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Sunday Salon: the Belated Post
astripedarmchair.wordpress.com - 6 days ago
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I find it ironic that both the Chunkster
Challenge and November Novella Challenge end this month! Extra...
long books and extra short ones, here I come. Chunkster Challenge The Chunkster Challenge began back in January, and I signed up for the highest, Mor-book-ly Obese level, which had ...
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Challenge Wrap-Ups: Chunkster and Novella
astripedarmchair.wordpress.com - 8 days ago
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> Library Loot is a weekly event co-hosted
by myself and Marg that encourages bloggers to share...
the books they’ve checked out from the library. If you’d like to participate, just write up your post-feel free to steal the button-and link it using the Mr. Linky any time during the ...
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Library Loot: November 25-December 1, 2009
astripedarmchair.wordpress.com - 9 days ago
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Last fall was a rough time for me
and my book blog. I was struggling with depression...
for the first time in my life, while also going to grad school full time and working 20 hours a week. I barely posted in October, and then my laptop got messed up. Since I lived quite a drive from my campus, ...
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For Dewey
astripedarmchair.wordpress.com - 10 days ago
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I am not a wine girl, with the
exceptions of champagne, riesling, and the ’semi-sweet’ red wine...
my Russian host family always got me (I can’t find a US equivalent anywhere). I used to really enjoy beer, from microbreweries or overseas, but now that I have a gluten allergy, ...
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Red, White, and Drunk All Over (thoughts)
astripedarmchair.wordpress.com - 11 days ago
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( Short Story Monday is hosted by John
Mutford .) When updating my review directories this weekend,...
I was inspired to try to read and review some short stories that would ‘fill in the gaps’ so I could have complete alphabets. I have yet to find an ‘X’ author who writes ...
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Short Story Monday: Alphabet Style
astripedarmchair.wordpress.com - 13 days ago
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If you’ve been reading my blog for any
length of time, you’ve probably realised that I’m a...
complete challenge addict. I adore them: from the time spent making the perfect reading list to adding them to my Current Challenge Page to reading the books and using the strike tag to ...
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Challenges and Read-a-Longs, Oh My!
astripedarmchair.wordpress.com - 14 days ago
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After today’s post and Sunday Salon, I’ll only
be one review behind. That’s a good feeling! But...
today I have ten graphic books to talk about. But, I’m awful at trying to review graphic books, so this will be probably be a pretty short post. I think I’ll talk ...
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Graphic Novels Extravanganza
astripedarmchair.wordpress.com - 15 days ago
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Continuing with my themed multi-review posts, today I’ll
be talking about three memoirs I read for the...
Women Unbound Challenge : Persepolis: the Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi , The Skin Between Us by Kym Ragusa , and Baby Catcher by Peggy Vincent . Coincidently, ...
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Women Unbound: Persepolis, The Skin Between Us, and Baby ...
astripedarmchair.wordpress.com - 16 days ago
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Library Loot is a weekly event co-hosted by
myself and Marg that encourages bloggers to share the...
books they’ve checked out from the library. If you’d like to participate, just write up your post-feel free to steal the button-and link it using the Mr. Linky any time during the ...
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Library Loot: November 18-24, 2009
astripedarmchair.wordpress.com - 17 days ago
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My very last term of college, I took
a class called “West African Politics” with a professor...
from Cote d’Ivoire. It was an awesome class-the professor expected us to be prepared and intelligent, and was kind of mean to some of the poor freshman who had signed up unawares, but ...
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West African Authors: Wife of the Gods, an African in ...
astripedarmchair.wordpress.com - 18 days ago
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Usually, I do Short Story Mondays, and I
really enjoy that. But due to being ill, I’m...
really behind in reviews. If I play my cards right, I should be caught up by the end of the week, so I’ll be doing multiple, themed reviews most days. Novellas are the next best thing to short ...
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A Novella Monday
