Two Girls Read Shakespeare: Are Will & Brooklyn Rapper, Jay-Z, on the Same Page?

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A couple of weeks ago Meg and I announced that we wanted to get to the bottom of what The Bard was all about. Clearly we missed the boat as teens and college students, so now here we are trying to figure out what all the fuss was about, and if we really missed anything. [...]

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Almost Home, by Pam Jenoff – Book Review

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Jordan Weiss is falling apart.  After receiving a letter from a friend living in London who is slowly deteriorating from ALS (Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, commonly Lou Gehrig’s Disease), Jordan transfers her post as an Intelligence Officer with the U.S. State Department to a branch overseas in London. Jordan has deep reservations about going back to London [...]

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Book Club Pick: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot

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I first heard about The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot way back in November when I found it through a website called Make Me Required Reading which makes recommendations and highlights books that might be worthwhile in terms of educational value to be used in the classroom.  It sounded fascinating then, but [...]

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Ask Linus: Examining The Search Terms of Linus’s Blanket (1)

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I often get lots of funny phrases and questions in my search terms and I always say that one day I will do a post on them.  Something about this latest one prompted me to seize the day.  When you come to Linus with questions, you get answers! Why do witches like Wednesday? I don’t [...]

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Two Girls Read Shakespeare: Sonnets for Valentine’s Day?

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Hey ya’ll… Happy Valentine’s Day! A little less than two weeks ago Meg from Write Meg! and I announced that we had decided it might be worthwhile to do an exploration of Shakespeare as adults.  Even though much of Shakespeare’s life and the writing of his works is often mired in mystery and controversy they [...]

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Talking the Wire: Season One – Episodes 1 & 2

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Amy (My Friend Amy), Elizabeth Elizabeth (As Usual, I Need More Shelves) and I are watching and chatting about The Wire.  We’re in Season One and have just watched the first couple of episodes.  If you have watched or plan on watching, please chime in!  I’m a little lost right now. So…now that we’ve watched [...]

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One Amazing Thing, by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni – Book Review

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One Amazing Thing, by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni opens with a  young woman sitting in an Indian passport and visa office in an unidentified city in the United States (my guess is somewhere in California),  observing  the employees and the other varied strangers seeking travel visas to India.  An older couple with marital problems, an ex-soldier [...]

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Pages From The THIB! Cook Book: Pomodoro Chicken & Grandma Stasik’s Risotto

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If you’ve been listening to any of the That’s How I Blog! shows, you will know that I am easily distracted and frequently ruminate and ramble off on food tangents with guests of the show.  Julie (Booking Mama) and I chatted for quite a bit of time about the joys of “reading” cookbooks and the [...]

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Two Girls Read Shakespeare: or In Which We Correct The Miseducation of Megan & Nicole

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This is a joint Public Service Announcement from Write Meg! & Linus’s Blanket ! It was a cold, wintry night when Megan joined Nicole on her weekly feature “That’s How I Blog!” — a chronicle of the reading and blogging habits of those in the book blog community. It didn’t take long for the ladies [...]

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Introducing…Talking The Wire

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This was supposed to post yesterday, but it didn’t.  WP is funny like that at times.  But you should be able to expect updates on this little project every Wednesday. My Friend Amy and I really should not be allowed to talk or e-mail or twitter.  Ever.  Because well…we chat about things, and then wonder [...]

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