Holiday gift-buying season is upon us! And it just so happens that I’m amazing at buying gifts. So if you’re looking to buy a book for someone on your holiday shopping list, let me and Whiskey Jenny help you out with it! Here’s how it works: Swing by our holiday gift guide page and fill out the form there. All we need is your name and email and a little information about who you’re buying for,1 just so we don’t tell you to buy dolphin erotica for your boss. That would be inappropriate. We’ll be recording a holiday gift guide…
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Are you participating in A Month of Faves, hosted by Estella’s Revenge and GirlXOXO and Traveling with T? Today’s topic is, Which books have you read this year that were TOTALLY worth the hype? Nick Hornby’s Funny Girl is one for me! I’ve never liked Nick Hornby before, but Funny Girl made me feel happy all way through. The Turner House, Angela Flournoy. So, so assured for a debut novel, and it managed to make me love it despite being constantly compared to Gabriel Garcia Marquez, whom I do not care for. Way to go, Angela Flournoy. The Wicked +…
11 CommentsGuys, Quirk Books sent me some paper dolls for review, and this is a good time to tell you how crazy much I love paper dolls. When I was a wee lass, I had paper dolls of Prince Charles and Princess Diana plus paper dolls of the characters from Little Women. They used to go on quests to rescue Prince Charles, of whom, even as a child, I had a very low opinion. These are paper dolls of Hillary Clinton! In the below awesome tableau, the devil has become incarnate and wreaked havoc upon the nation. Luckily, Ghost George Washington…
28 CommentsIt’s our fiftieth episode!! Recurring guest star Ashley joins us to discuss the books that shaped us as readers, review a Nancy Drew and a Hardy Boys mystery, and play a teen sleuths GAME of Whiskey Jenny’s devising. You can listen to the podcast in the embedded player below or download the file directly to take with you on the go. Episode 50 You can access our holiday gift guide form here. Be sure to get your entries in soon! We’ll be recording in early December with some gift ideas for you Get at me on Twitter, email the podcast,…
Leave a CommentThis week for Nonfiction November, we’re talking about nonfiction that comes in different and exciting forms, not just your standard academic monograph or zippy book from Norton about Satanists or whatever. Pop by Rebecca’s blog to see what everyone else has to say about this! Nontraditional Nonfiction: This week we will be focusing on the nontraditional side of reading nonfiction. Nonfiction comes in many forms. There are the traditional hardcover or paperback print books, of course, but then you also have e-books, audiobooks, illustrated and graphic nonfiction, oversized folios, miniatures, internet publishing, and enhanced books complete with artifacts. So many…
13 CommentsEvery November, four wonderful bloggers (Kim and Leslie and Katie and Rebecca) team up to bring us the marvelous Nonfiction November. The theme of this week is book pairings, in which we pair our fiction reads with a nonfictional counterpart. Earlier in the year, I had the inestimable privilege of participating in Alice (of Reading Rambo)’s readalong of Matthew Gregory Lewis’s book The Monk. It was…deeply stupid. HOWEVER. As I was scouring my reading spreadsheets for nonfiction books to highlight in this book pairing, I remembered that I read a book earlier this year in which every insane thing done…
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