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Beyond Heaving Bosoms By Candy Tan and Sarah Wendell Read: April 2010 Rating: BWAHA! By god, I love the Smart Bitches! Their fabulously hilarious blog, SmartBitchesTrashyBooks.com was the perfect platform for their snarkage, but it couldn’t really contain everything about the genre. Blogs are topical, this book is more an overview of the genre as a whole, while [...] Full Story	Negotiating With the Dead By Margaret Atwood Read: August 2009 Rating: Nonnegotiable The whole time I was reading this I wondered why none of my writing classes assigned us to read it. Margaret Atwood is one of the Big Ones. She’s made her mark on modern literature, and at least some of her books will still be considered worth [...] Full Story	Who the Hell is Pansy O’Hara? The Fascinating Stories Behind 50 of the World’s Best-Loved Books By Jenny Bond and Chris Sheedy Read: May 2009 Rating: Nifty What is it? A bunch of short article/chapters about famous authors, and their famous books–and what made the authors write those books. This is a nice little book to browse through between longer projects. At [...] Full Story
The First Five Pages By Noah Lukeman Read: July 2008 Rating: Ponderous Apologies to Mr. Lukeman, ‘ponderous’ is not the right word. Last week Sreya and I were in B&N, and this was one of the books on the bargain shelf. We split the cost, and have been looking through it. We spent an enjoyable few hours in the [...] Full Story

Beyond Heaving Bosoms