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THE LIAR’S DIARY - Blog Day LitPark
Today is the day! Literary bloggers all over the place are pointing their sites to LitPark and Patry Francis’s book The Liar’s Diary.
Patry’s story struck home for me because my 4 year-old was diagnosed with cancer just last month (a week before Christmas). He had a little [...]

Note: this review was written in a huff. Pamuk’s book is actually quite wonderful when taken in the right frame of mind. I’m leaving up this post though (as I do all the garbage here) because it serves as a good reminder not to take myself so seriously.
To read more about what causes [...]

Mark Terry isn’t starting a meme, but it feels like one anyway…
The Book Brahmins Questions:
Shelf Awareness, a newsletter I get, generally has a section on Fridays where they interview “Book Brahmins” (and no, I find the reference a bit vague) and ask the same questions. Today, for instance, they interview Douglas Preston (whose [...]

There are a lot of folks talking about AB’s new book. I read the somewhat short version in the LRB (or was it the TLS). Very funny.
The Uncommon Reader:
I picked up Alan Bennett’s The Uncommon Reader at the library last Saturday. I opened it up when I got home intending to just dip [...]