Don't worry, I'm still around! The reading has been going at a glacial pace (sigh), but I've been gearing up for the Holidays, watching A LOT of Christmas movies, and trying to find the right gifts for everyone on my list. Which led me to spend time this weekend scouring the internet to create another Bookish Gifts post. Hope you enjoy! If you're ( Read more... )

I have a little bit of breathing room this week--enough that I've indulged myself and spent some time working on a post (I KNOW. It's a miracle). There are reviews that need to be finished, but I've been in a nostalgic mood and I've been thinking about high school and the books that I had to read in English class. There was a lot of Shakespeare ( ( Read more... )

I was about to begin another general Bookish Gifts posts (any excuse to window shop online), but suddenly I was searching for things with a certain detective novel theme. I think it is because I am in the middle of watching the latest Sherlock (don't tell me what happens). Anyway, there's something comforting in reading a mystery: you always find ( Read more... )

I've been thinking of doing a bookish gift post that had a specific fan theme, and since it's the 200th anniversary of the publication of Pride and Prejudice I spent this weekend surfing the web for Jane Austen themed doodads. It should be no surprise, knowing how popular Jane Austen is, that I found a lot of Jane Austen themed objects. This is ( Read more... )

My mind is so pooped at the end of the day by my new job that I'm not quite there yet with the mental fortitude and discipline I need to write reviews (I really am working on that though). Strangely, I seem to have no problems surfing the web and playing with MS Paint. I've been having a grand ol' time putting together another Bookish Gifts post, ( Read more... )

Last year I had a lot of fun window shopping on the Internet for a post on gifts for book nerds. Since it's been almost a year and I don't really need much of an excuse to look at pretty things, I bring you even more booky things, the 2012 edition. (click to embiggen)


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This is a post that I wanted to do last year, but I got lazy. Seeing as it's November, and the Book Holiday blogger swap has begun again, I finally got around to showing you some shiny pretty bookish things. Really, it's an excuse for me to window shop on the web. (Click on images for bigger versions).


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