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A Canadian Hat Trick: Obasan, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, and Green Grass, Running Water

Published 16 hours ago by Eva at A Striped Armchair

I find myself again wanting to review books in order to take my mind off other things. So today, I’ll talk about the Canadian books I’ve been reading! I finished three in November, which brings my total for the Canadian Challenge up to ten (I need to read and review thirteen in ...
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Rest in Peace, Grandpa

Published 38 hours ago by Eva at A Striped Armchair

I’ve turned off comments for this post. I wanted you guys to know what was going on, since I mentioned in in my Sunday Salon post. But at the same time, I’m still too raw to really talk about it; I haven’t had a death in even extended family since I was very little, and all ...
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Sunday Salon: the Belated Post

Published 3 days ago by Eva at A Striped Armchair

I wasn’t going to post today; on Thanksgiving we got some bad family news, and since then I’ve been too distracted to really get into blogging. But I’ve been reading a lot this week (hmmm…I wonder why? it couldn’t be that books are my comfort and escape, lol), ...
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Challenge Wrap-Ups: Chunkster and Novella

Published 5 days ago by Eva at A Striped Armchair

I find it ironic that both the Chunkster Challenge and November Novella Challenge end this month! Extra long books and extra short ones, here I come. Chunkster Challenge The Chunkster Challenge began back in January, and I signed up for the highest, Mor-book-ly Obese level, which had ...
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Library Loot: November 25-December 1, 2009

Published 7 days ago by Eva at A Striped Armchair

> Library Loot is a weekly event co-hosted by myself and Marg that encourages bloggers to share the books they’ve checked out from the library. If you’d like to participate, just write up your post-feel free to steal the button-and link it using the Mr. Linky any time during the ...
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For Dewey
astripedarmchair.wordpress.com - 8 days ago
For Dewey
— astripedarmchair.wordpress.com — Last fall was a rough time for me and my book blog. I was struggling with depression... for the first time in my life, while also going to grad school full time and working 20 hours a week. I barely posted in October, and then my laptop got messed up. ... (more) For Dewey
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Red, White, and Drunk All Over (thoughts)

Published 9 days ago by Eva at A Striped Armchair

I am not a wine girl, with the exceptions of champagne, riesling, and the ’semi-sweet’ red wine my Russian host family always got me (I can’t find a US equivalent anywhere). I used to really enjoy beer, from microbreweries or overseas, but now that I have a gluten allergy, ...
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Short Story Monday: Alphabet Style
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Short Story Monday: Alphabet Style
— astripedarmchair.wordpress.com — ( Short Story Monday is hosted by John Mutford .) When updating my review directories this weekend,... I was inspired to try to read and review some short stories that would ‘fill in the gaps’ so I could have complete alphabets. I have yet ... (more) Short Story Monday: Alphabet Style
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Challenges and Read-a-Longs, Oh My!
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Challenges and Read-a-Longs, Oh My!
— astripedarmchair.wordpress.com — If you’ve been reading my blog for any length of time, you’ve probably realised that I’m a... complete challenge addict. I adore them: from the time spent making the perfect reading list to adding them to my Current Challenge Page to ... (more) Challenges and Read-a-Longs, Oh My!
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Graphic Novels Extravanganza

Published 13 days ago by Eva at A Striped Armchair

After today’s post and Sunday Salon, I’ll only be one review behind. That’s a good feeling! But today I have ten graphic books to talk about. But, I’m awful at trying to review graphic books, so this will be probably be a pretty short post. I think I’ll talk ...
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Women Unbound: Persepolis, The Skin Between Us, and Baby Catcher
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Women Unbound: Persepolis, The Skin Between Us, and Baby Catcher
— astripedarmchair.wordpress.com — Continuing with my themed multi-review posts, today I’ll be talking about three memoirs I read for the... Women Unbound Challenge : Persepolis: the Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi , The Skin Between Us by Kym Ragusa , and Baby Catcher ... (more) Women Unbound: Persepolis, The Skin Between Us, and Baby ...
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Library Loot: November 18-24, 2009
astripedarmchair.wordpress.com - 15 days ago
Library Loot: November 18-24, 2009
— astripedarmchair.wordpress.com — Library Loot is a weekly event co-hosted by myself and Marg that encourages bloggers to share the... books they’ve checked out from the library. If you’d like to participate, just write up your post-feel free to steal the button-and link ... (more) Library Loot: November 18-24, 2009
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West African Authors: Wife of the Gods, an African in Greenland, A Long Way Gone

Published 16 days ago by Eva at A Striped Armchair

My very last term of college, I took a class called “West African Politics” with a professor from Cote d’Ivoire. It was an awesome class-the professor expected us to be prepared and intelligent, and was kind of mean to some of the poor freshman who had signed up unawares, but ...
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A Novella Monday

Published 17 days ago by Eva at A Striped Armchair

Usually, I do Short Story Mondays, and I really enjoy that. But due to being ill, I’m really behind in reviews. If I play my cards right, I should be caught up by the end of the week, so I’ll be doing multiple, themed reviews most days. Novellas are the next best thing to short ...
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Sunday Salon: the Snowglobe Post

Published 18 days ago by Eva at A Striped Armchair

I’m writing this in my bedroom, and I can look out the window and admire all of the pretty snow, which has made the evergreen tree out there beautiful. The sky’s solid white, like it always is with snow, and I feel like I’m in a snowglobe! I missed last Sunday’s salon, ...
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In Which I Share a Different Kind of Library Loot

Published 19 days ago by Eva at A Striped Armchair

I began this post forever ago-the morning after the read-a-thon in fact. And then somehow, I forgot I hadn’t actually finished and posted it, until I was admiring my huge stack of books today. So a little late, but better than never, here’s what I came home with from my ...
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Woman: an Intimate Geography (thoughts)
— astripedarmchair.wordpress.com — To say that I loved this book feels like a horrible understatement. I believe every single woman... should read this book. If I were a billionaire, I would buy a copy for each woman who could read English, and press it into her hands with fervent good wishing. I think Angier has done a wonderful ... (more) Woman: an Intimate Geography (thoughts)
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Green Books Campaign: Style, Naturally (thoughts)

Published 23 days ago by Eva at A Striped Armchair

Today, I’m participating in an event sponsored by Eco Libris: the Green Books campaign . They’ve requested that I include the following at the beginning of my post: Today 100 bloggers are reviewing 100 great books printed in an environmentally friendly way. Our goal is to ...
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Not My Usual Sunday Fare

Published 25 days ago by Eva at A Striped Armchair

Hello darlings. I’m posting from a nest of pillows with suitable heating pads distributed around, and I’ve totally got fibro brain so a review would just be silly. But. My mom picked up Season One of BBC’s Robin Hood for me at the library yesterday, and it is so wonderful! ...
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astripedarmchair.wordpress.com - 27 days ago
Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue (thoughts)
— astripedarmchair.wordpress.com — Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue by John McWhorter is another book I read via review copy, and the... publisher requested I post about it this week since the trade paperback edition has just hit the shelves here in the States. This is a nonfiction book about linguistics, specifically about the ... (more) Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue (thoughts)
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