We're Number 25!
OK, so to be honest, I never heard of “Online University Lowdown.com” before this morning, but I’m psyched that Three Percent is number 25 on their list of 50 Places to Find Literary Criticism Online. (It’s been one of those weeks. I’ll take any love I can get.) According to Emma Roberts, who ...
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Another Entertaining List
From The Times is this list of 10 books not to read: 9: Lord of the Rings – J R R Tolkien The best I can say about this book is that it was a very useful tool at school for helping to choose your friends. Carrying a copy of Tolkien’s monstrous tome was the equivalent of a leper’s bell: ‘Unclean! ...
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The "New Classics"?
I unabashedly love Entertainment Weekly. (Or at least did—once my TV broke, I canceled my subscription.) That said, the recent list of the 100 best reads from 1983 to 2008 strikes me as unbelievably provincial, and well, just plain bad. There are a handful of great books here—out of the top 25, The Wind-Up ...
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When Best Of Lists Go Very, Very Wrong
I thought Jessa at Bookslut was just kidding, but apparently not. The Chicago Tribune has a listing of favorite books that’s literally any book anyone read this year! Seriously, this thing is 28 pages online and completely ...
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