January 2011
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Thoughts on the Snooki book.
Oh, where does one begin? Does one start by saying “it’s not as bad as people say,” a backhanded insult both true and defensive? Does one mention that one laughed; can one reject the fear that whatever one says about the Snooki book says more about the reader than the book? Is it possible to even begin a valuable conversation about the gender politics of this book without...
Anonymous asked: Why watermelon?
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“Consider what that cartoon means in that context: It implies that the commenter...”
– From the much-circulated The Web Is a Customer Service Experience by Paul Ford, which I have been thinking about a lot for the last week. There are a lot of reasons I am excited to get on a train in a few hours and go on vacation for the rest of the week and leave my computer and the Internet behind...
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I’m not much for best-of lists. My memory is not good enough for them and I don’t find them very useful when other people write them, and so am too lazy to bother. I did, for the first time, keep a fairly accurate list of what I read this year. Was 367 books. I liked the vast majority of them, so it would feel wrong to only list ten or so, and to list more than that would defeat the...
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“‘If people thought about dying more often,’ she observed,...”
– from Cyberspace When You’re Dead by Rob Walker. See also:
“For me, at least, pondering the digital afterlife made me rethink digital life. We’re encouraged to record and express everything, all the time. In real time, we can record and distribute the most important moments of our...
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WORD: An introduction and our top 100 of 2010. →
My store has joined tumblr and we’re kicking things off with a list because we heard people like lists.
wordbrooklyn:
Hi! We’re moving our blog over here because all the cool kids are doing it. By way of introduction, if you haven’t met us before, here’s WORD’s top 100 bestsellers of 2010. Titles with asterisks are books that we had events for; titles with two asterisks were WORD book...
Anonymous asked: are you familiar with www.booktrib.com?
Anonymous asked: What other book/reading/bookselling blogs do you read?
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A few helpful notes on BET ME by Jennifer Crusie.
Notes on Bet Me by Jennifer Crusie, given in the same spirit with which a heavily-dogeared copy of Summer Sisters was handed to me in eighth grade:
The donut makeout scene is pages 101-105.
The donut sex scene is pages 363-369.
The donut proposal scene is page 381.
(FYI: All donuts mentioned are Krispy Kremes.)