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In last week's resurrected You're Beautiful costume polls, our favorite crossdressing nun Go Mi Nam pulled out her very first victory. The audience has spoken: the elfin poncho of woe is this winter's must-have accessory!
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A month or two ago, I went to the Yiddish Book Center for an archives conference that happened to be hosted there ( Read more... ) -
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Some of you who were around here in 2011 may remember when I used to do tv fashion costume polls. I got all the way through sixteen episodes of my beloved flora-fedora-filled Capital Scandal and six episodes into You're Beautiful, the kdrama featuring a nun who joins the world's most amazingly-dressed boyband, before grad school proved to be enough ( Read more... ) -
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To continue the trend of catch-up reviewing fluff I've read over the past month, the Cecelia and Kate novels recently came out in super-cheap omnibus edition, so I spent my work trip back in September rereading them for the first time in about 12 years.
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I had to do a separate post for Jennifer Crusie's Agnes and the Hitman, because a.) it was not included in the omnibus and b.) it's not just a Jennifer Crusie book, it was co-written with military suspense author Bob Mayer, and c.) it is SLAPSTICK MURDER BANANAS. Think, like, The Sopranos meets Bringing Up Baby.
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Before my last big work trip, I got out a Jennifer Cruise four-in-one bundle from the library, because the library had it in e-book and I figured I would need something escapist to read on my travel adventures ( Read more... ) -
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I left my election night group at 11:30 PM and said, things aren't getting better, I have to be up at 4 AM tomorrow to catch a plane, I'm going to try and get some sleep ( Read more... ) -
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So in Barbara Michaels's Houses of Stone, Our Heroine Karen is an academic with a focus on early nineteenth-century Gothics (oh yes I see what you did there Barbara Michaels, we all saw what you did there) who is convinced she's had the break of her career when her dashing bookseller friend finds a handwritten manuscript of a genuine! female- ( Read more... ) -
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I picked up The Rivers Ran East -- a theoretically factual 1950s account of an explorer's journey in the Peruvian jungle -- based entirely on seeing a tumblr post featuring the quote "Ever since he had aimed that gun at my throat, I had liked him immensely. And now I liked him even better, and was terribly sorry he was not going in search of El ( Read more... )
