

Coffee! Coffee! Coffee!
And today is definitely the day inadvertently ordering three cups of coffee wouldn't be such a bad thing. Because... TODAY IS NATIONAL...


Walden by Henry David Thoreau
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A new day!
114,299 pageviews 545 posts 396 comments 161 Facebook Likes 101 Blogger followers 55 books 21 episodes 3 years ONE MEASLY SEASON And I...


My First Summer in the Sierra by John Muir
Read my review here! #myfirstsummerinthesierra #johnmuir


The Silent Boy by Lois Lowry
The Silent Boy by Lois Lowry There is something so intriguing and hopeful in how Lois Lowry writes children as intelligent, sentient...


Where BearAllen will go when she dies
Because I'm a genius, I successfully worked my inaugural visit to Strand Bookstore in NYC into an otherwise boring client visit. And it...


The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
I remember the first time a friend recommended this book to me. I was a sophomore in high school... 10th grade. If I was still in...


Looks like we've made it...
...well, at least 1/7th of the way. Is 1/7th a real fraction? I never fully understood fractions. This is really obvious when I'm...


Haikus from the Hollow!
My good friend Lauren at the newly-created (and still mid-design) Shubert Alley Cat ("Broadway, Bourbon and Bon Mots") is working from...


A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
I feel all guilty, allowing myself to read what is my personal reading junk food... literary fiction. But eh, you have to allow yourself...