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Grimm Tales vs. Television: Bears Will Be Bears
Hello hello, and welcome to the second episode of of the Grimm Tales vs. Television series! First off, let me apologize for me total absence for…yeah, for around five months. All I can say is, I haven’t stopped reading and… Read More ›
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The Circle, Dave Eggers
I don’t know what I was expecting when I opened The Circle for the first time. I had heard of it when it was released a few years ago, but it wasn’t a book I’d have picked up then. In… Read More ›
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Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, Lewis Carroll
I’ll be honest with you. I originally bought this book because I really, really love the cover designs from the Word Cloud Classics editions of classic literature. I have a few of them now, and I just adored the bright,… Read More ›
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2017 Goodreads Challenge – COMPLETED!!
Here we are again, at the beginning of a brand new year! And I think I speak for all of us when I beg any heavenly being paying attention to not have 2017 suck as much as 2016 did. Please?… Read More ›
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2017 Popsugar Reading Challenge – COMPLETED!!
Well hello again readers! Happy New Year/Holiday Season/start of January, depending on your particular belief system. I hope you have had an excellent couple of weeks! So, after last years Grown Up Reading Challenge, I decided to have a go… Read More ›
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Red: My Uncensored Life in Rock, Sammy Hagar
Let me just start by admitting that prior to reading this autobiography, I absolutely could not have told you who Sammy Hagar was. And that is not because of the fact that he is a rock artist; I grew up… Read More ›
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The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway
The Old Man and the Sea is the first book that I have read by Hemingway, and I will be brutally honest: the only reason I read it at all was because of the 2016 Grown Up Reading Challenge. I… Read More ›
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Our Shared Shelf – Emma Watson’s Book Club
Our Shared Shelf is Emma Watson’s feminist book club. Once you’ve finished shrieking and wondering how in the name of little green apples you didn’t know about this, read on. I have known about this for a few months now,… Read More ›
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Grimm Tales vs. Television: Pilot Episode
Ok, first episode! Incredibly originally, as far as I can see the first episode of this show was only ever called the pilot, so…. yeah. Pilot episode. Now, Grimm started off with what is possibly the most well-known “fairy tale”… Read More ›