January 2012
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NYC book swap tonight.
7pm at Library Bar, details here.
If you’re interested in coming but worried you won’t know anyone, this is not at all a cliquey meetup, plus you have a built in conversation starter—books!
Don’t let social awkwardness stand in the way of free new books. One of your New Year’s resolutions was probably to make new friends, and to that I say carpe diem.
If you...
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1Q84 Post-Mortem.
Based on the buzz surrounding 1Q84 I expected a departure from Haruki Murakami’s standby themes. I stopped reading him a while ago because after six or seven novels it felt like I was reading the same repackaged story, the innovative and exciting qualities that struck me after first discovering him now seemed stale. Within the first few hundred pages of 1Q84 I found myself distracted by mentions...
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A Bookworm's Guide to Casting The Corrections →
I put on my Hollywood director hat and wrote this for Flavorpill.
Using Pinterest as a visionboard for writing your... →
I love this.
1Q84.
Another race against time: I am halfway through 1Q84 with 400 pages to go and it is due back at the library on Saturday. Who knew checking out library books could be stressful? I have a lot of Thoughts and Opinions on Mr. Murakami’s latest, review to come!
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The number of pages it took for Haruki Murakami to mention a cat in the 925 page long 1Q84.
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