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Review: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

No matter what your opinion is on Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies has something to get your attention. If you’re one of the many people who loved the original book, who identify with the characters, and who never get tired of such a classic story, this is a chance to reread it with

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Review: Suburban Legends

There are a lot of books on the paranormal that contain scholarly, objective descriptions of mysterious events. This is not one of those books. Suburban Legends by Sam Stall is a tongue-in-cheek look at ghosts, aliens, true-crime, and other weirdness that just happens to show up in the suburbs. It’s a quick, easy read, with

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[Review] William Shakespeare’s Star Wars

When I first saw the cover for this book, I thought it was just someone’s clever illustration of Darth Vader drawn in Shakespearean clothing in a wood-cut style. I thought it was very pretty. Then I noticed the amazon link and realized that it’s a real book. Ian Doescher rewrote Star Wars, the entire movie, in

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llyzabeth

Review: The Ocean at the End of the Lane

If you had given me The Ocean at the End of the Lane with no cover or title page, without telling me anything about it at all, I’d still know it was a Neil Gaiman story. Out of all my favorite authors, Gaiman has the most comfortable, clever, and satisfying style of writing.

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Dinner is Coming – A Song of Sugar and Spice

If you’re anything like me, you took a little extra time while reading George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire to visualize the passages in which he describes the foods of his world. He pays special attention to describing the meals in loving detail, encouraging my inner fatty to fantasize about shoveling all

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Return of Ten Books, A Thousand Pages: Part One

I don’t want to run a halfway decent idea into the ground, but I had so much fun with the “Ten Books, A Thousand Pages” project (Part One is here, and Part Two here) that I had to do it again. So I present The Return of Ten Books, A Thousand Pages, wherein I pick

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Review: Wayne of Gotham

I had high hopes for Tracy Hickman’s Wayne of Gotham, but it never grabbed my attention. When I look at everything I was reading, or watching while I was trying to read this book, I don’t think it ever had a chance.

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A Return to Westeros is Imminent!

HBO’s wildfire hit Game of Thrones is set to return March 31st, 2013. While that may seem like an eternity for the faithful, we can all sate our appetite with a few tiny glimmers into the upcoming season 3. Check them out below!

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Review: And Another Thing

Most craft give a nod, however brief and unfriendly, toward beauty. Vogon ships did not nod toward beauty. They pulled on ski masks and mugged beauty in a dark alley. I really wanted to like And Another Thing, Eoin Colfer’s sequel to the late Douglas Adams’ Hitchhiker’s Guide series. In the end, however, I can

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