Today is my birthday and to distract me from wallowing in my old(ish) age, I’ve decided to celebrate other people born today and the strange coincidences that link them to books. To start, three actresses share my birthday, and one other thing: they all played the main character in a film adaptation of a classic [...]
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Book News, Feb. 2nd
Welcome to February, bookworms! One month of the year down, and things are going well. Here in Boston, it’s still alternating between deathly cold and the 50′s (which, at this point, is a major heat wave) and I’m kind of not surprised that literally everyone is sick. I’m off to the MFA today to see [...]
Book News, Nov. 24th
It’s Thanksgiving weekend, and I hope you’re all doing something other than waiting in endless retail lines, buying stuff you probably don’t need at ridiculously discounted prices. (Or, if you are doing that, I hope you’re having fun!). I’m not much on shopping to begin with, so I’m using this weekend to catch up on [...]
