Book Club! What are you reading next? Let’s find out!
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I first heard this story in elementary school when our teacher read it aloud to us. I have never forgotten it. On Memorial Day, as you BBQ your burgers and chicken, drink your drinks and chat with your friends and family, give a moment and a prayer for all those who faithfully serve the United States and especially those who gave all they had, and all they ever will have, to her defense.
So, if any of you are like me, you finished this thing late Friday night. Those of you who had your shit together and finished it earlier, congratulations. Pricks.
This is my first book club, and my first foray into the world of romantic literature, so PandaRobots helped out with the questions here. Everybody thank PandaRobots.
Growing up, after buying coney dogs and flurries from the independent ice cream shop up the road from where we lived and across the street from where we went to middle school, my sister and I would bike over to Kay’s Books, a small, dingy little place filled with love for words, and we would spend the rest of our allowance on comics, Archie for her and Spiderman for myself. The comics were located right up front, and just off to the side was the Romance section. I liked to laugh at the cheesy covers featuring illustrations of that guy from the butter commercials and the equally cheesy titles. Who read this stuff? As I began to write myself, I thought, who wrote this stuff? Don’t people want to write about big ideas, about great philosophical conflict? Continue reading
Four Books Enter. Two Books Leave. What are we reading? You decide. BANG! You’re dead. Continue reading
Hilary Winston, a writer for the show Community, finally gets her revenge. For a while, she kept it all inside waiting and biding her time, hoping to release the proverbial Kracken on her ex-boyfriend and finally the time has come. Continue reading
Hey, birds. Use this as your thread to suggest the next selection for the Crasstalk Book Club (Thinner than Oprah™). Here’s how it’s going to work.
- Suggest a book in the comments.
- Fonz the book(s) you’d want to read.
On Saturday, we’ll be selecting the top three for a face-off, and, remember, if your book is chosen, we expect you to host. This week we’re reading a Romance, so to be fair to other genres, we ask that no Romance novels are suggested.
Before we begin discussing Ibsen’s tale of redemption in the aftermath of an embezzlement, let’s reveal what you kids are reading next. Envelope, Please!
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A parenting visionary, Adam Mansbach, has written a book that I will be buying the moment it’s released. I’m giving it as a gift to all the parents I know. Why?
The name of the book is “Go the F**k to Sleep.” Yes, you read that correctly. Continue reading
The BBC is reporting that several lost works have been discovered by researchers in the archives of Anthony Burgess.