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Books, books, books and more books!

Salutations, book nerds! Let’s get down to business, shall we? Here are the new releases for last week AND this week (in no particular order), so pick something up and give it a read! The Grand Design by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow How can we understand the world in which we find ourselves? Over [...]

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Share your quotes!

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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Tons of text!

Greetings! Salutations! Ready for a huge batch of new books? Well, this is your week. We’ve got a metric shit-ton of new books coming out that are ripe for the readin’ this Tuesday! So, get crackin’! Kraken? Sex: Our Bodies, Our Junk by The Association for the Betterment of Sex GOOD GOD—YOU’RE DOING IT ALL [...]

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OMG BOOKS!

Greetings, readers. Are you well? Now that the pleasantries are out of the way, let’s get to the business at hand! NEW FRIGGIN’ BOOKS for the last two weeks! (Yeah, there wasn’t a new books post last week. Did you notice? …I thought not.) August 10th stuff! The Murder Room: The Heirs of Sherlock Holmes [...]

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1000 Books, 1000 Miles Project

This is a departure from my usual book reviewing/new releases post, obviously, but it’s a good’un! Good’in? Good one. There, that’s better. Anyway! A patron of our illustrious site brought this to my attention (thanks Rhiannon!) and I just had to share it with you all: 1000 Books, 1000 Miles! It’s an uplifting tale, I [...]

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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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Candy for your eyeholes!

All right, I know you guys are probably excited that Breaking Dawn is coming out in paperback today but that’s no reason to neglect the other new releases! And if you’re a nerd like me, and I bet you are, you know that there’s an especially great book this week. What is it? GUESS. Fine. [...]

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Lovin’ that new book smell…

HOORAY IT’S BOOK DAY! Below are some of the titles new for this Tuesday, but not all of them as I’m sure you’re aware, so if I’ve missed anything: yell! Also, be sure to check back on Friday for my review of Japanese Schoolgirl Confidential: How Teenage Girls Made a Nation Cool by Brian Ashcraft [...]

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BOOKS! Brand new, ready to go!

I bet you know what day it is! Mmmm fresh new books, crisp new pages, unbroken bindings… well, some people find that more appealing than others. I still prefer the musty old shelves of creepy used bookstores to their brightly lit, brand new counterparts, but! To each their own. Here are some crisp new copies [...]

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