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This is sort of a book review, sort of not. But how can that be?! Easy. I read John Dies at the End by David Wong (who is Cracked.com editor Jason Pargin’s alter ego) and couldn’t believe I had never stumbled across it before, so now I’m sharing its existence with you. Sort of like [...]

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Book Review! Packing for Mars by Mary Roach

I enjoy Mary Roach immensely. It’s difficult not to! At least for me, anyway, because I enjoy a heavy amount of snark and humor in my books, especially the nonfiction sort. Plus, okay. Maybe I enjoy a certain bit of morbid literature too. Big whoop, wanna fight about it? Roach has written on topics like [...]

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Book Review! American Gods by Neil Gaiman

Guys, I’m distressed. Or maybe appalled is more accurate? It seems that an inappropriate number of people haven’t read Neil Gaiman’s American Gods yet and next summer will be the ten year anniversary. WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?! After a lengthy Twitter discussion on the awesomeness that is American Gods and Neil Gaiman himself, I [...]

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Book Review! The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks!

Chances are, if you’ve ever studied biology, you’ve heard of HeLa cells. If you haven’t, well… let me enlighten you a little! HeLa cells are known as an ‘immortal’ cell line because they grow indefinitely and can be divided up and frozen for decades at a time amongst scientists for study. So basically, if you [...]

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Book Review! Horns: A Novel by Joe Hill

They say not to judge a book by it’s cover and I’ve never had that old adage illustrated more poignantly for me than with Horns: A Novel by Joe Hill. It wasn’t the cover art that deterred me, it wasn’t the color scheme or page count, no.  It was the name under the title. An [...]

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Not as naughty as it seems! (Bummer?)

There are very few things that can influence an entire country’s culture, especially those that span across generations. They can sometimes be hard to spot and sometimes they are so evident and celebrated that it’s impossible NOT to notice. Need an example? I have one! Japanese schoolgirls. They’ve absolutely permeated Japan’s culture, becoming a fixture [...]

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Book Review! The Disappearing Spoon…

You may or may not have noticed that last Friday was review-less on the book front. For that, I apologize! Too much work, not enough time, yadda, yadda, yadda. Someday I’ll hit the lottery and dedicate all of my time to book related endeavors, never missing a Friday review again. (Ahhh, the imagination. What a [...]

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BOOK REVIEW! Little Women and Werewolves

This remastering of the classics trend is going to die, just like every other wayward trend in any industry, but let’s ask ourselves this: is that a bad thing? There are only so many stories that can be monsterfied before this whole idea turns into a spoof of a spoof and that might already be [...]

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BOOK REVIEW! The Shallows by Nicholas Carr!

I think we’re all increasingly aware of what type of world we’re living in now, right? Information is literally at our fingertips, more accessible than it’s ever been and we’re becoming increasingly reliant upon it. But what does that actually mean? Is it a good thing or a bad thing that we’re able to access [...]

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Book Review! Ancestor by Scott Sigler

Did you know that Ancestor, by Scott Sigler, was actually released as a podcast? Free and full of awesomeness? AND! It was originally printed in 2007 but was updated to include more technologically relevant 2010 references for this printing? Actually, some of you wonderful nerdlings did know! And while I did not, I’m glad you [...]

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