Quentin Coldwater is a genius, a literal, brilliant genius who is also generally dissatisfied with life. He spends most of his time feeling vaguely miserable, his only solace being a series of children’s fantasy books about a magical land called Fillory. Those books are his secret obsession, his one way to escape from the world [...]
Monthly Archives — September 2011
Word of the Week (42)
Greetings, bookworms. We’re just about one month away from the one-year anniversary of Word of the Week and quickly approaching 50 words as well. I’ll have to think of some kind of special celebration to mark the occasion. Maybe something involving a prize of some sort? We’ll have to see. Didactic (“die-dak-tick”) Adjective; from Dictionary.com: [...]
DNF: The Cookbook Collector
From the publisher: Emily and Jessamine Bach are opposites in every way: Twenty-eight-year-old Emily is the CEO of Veritech, twenty-three-year-old Jess is an environmental activist and graduate student in philosophy. Pragmatic Emily is making a fortune in Silicon Valley, romantic Jess works in an antiquarian bookstore. Emily is rational and driven, while Jess is dreamy [...]
