The LA Times is wondering about people’s favorite books about or based in Los Angeles. Weirdly (I think), when prompted by their tweet, the first book that came to mind when I thought “LA book” was Cintra Wilson’s insane, hysterical, wet (…)
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So in accordance with my usual vacation protocol, I picked up the April issue of ELLE for last week’s desert jaunt. In a section called “The ELLE’s Letters Readers’ Prize” (what?) “ELLE readers vote for their favorite book among three (…)
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To Laura Miller’s suggestion that I become a better reader by committing to a reading challenge, I signed up for Roof Beam Reader’s 2011 TBR Pile Challenge. The goal is to read twelve books from your ‘To Be Read’ pile (…)
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