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I know I’m all late, but as I explained in my post on Bones, I was at the Baltimore Book Festival for the past few days, however, I must share a few quick thoughts on Bad Moon Rising. The werewolf story has finally moved along a little bit. I still have mixed feelings about this [...]
So it seems that I am destined to be attending book festivals during the season premiere episode of Bones. I started the trend last year when I was at National Book Festival and continued the trend this year with my visit to Baltimore Book Festival. While there I roomed with Allie from Hist-Fic Chick and I [...]
Lately I have been reading books one at a time. Probably because I haven’t had that much time on my hands, and it was all that I could do to finish one book as opposed to my usual of being in the midst of several. But just give me a few days of rest, relaxation [...]
September has been a huge month for lots of wonderful bookish events. So much so, that I have been virtually absent from Linus’s Blanket. I managed to post a paltry four times this month, and only a few days remain in September. I figure that I should take this opportunity to mention some of what [...]
The last two weeks have been among the busiest of the year for me and with Book Blogger Appreciation Week firmly in the rear view mirror I find that I can breathe again and get back to the business of Linus’s Blanket. I haven’t touched a book in weeks. I have about 80 pages left [...]
As a reader, I am always fascinated by the way that we use language, and the way our use of words color and provide context to our experiences. The words that we choose as our shorthand – categorize people and their actions, and behavior – are very telling to me. There is one word in [...]
In his highly acclaimed novel Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro (The Remains of the Day) created a remarkable story of love, loss and hidden truths. In it he posed the fundamental question: What makes us human? Now director Mark Romanek (ONE HOUR PHOTO), writer Alex Garland and DNA Films bring Ishiguro’s hauntingly poignant and emotional story to the [...]
I am so pleased today to share my interview with Iris from Iris on Books. Iris has given me the fantastic opportunity to accomplish two things in one post. Yesterday we were supposed to share a new blog that we had discovered since last year’s Book Blogger Appreciation Week, and Iris’s blog popped to mind. [...]
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