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Opinions Posted on: July 4, 2018July 15, 2024

Lost for Words About Words; Or, Some Thoughts About Reviewing Translations

I’ve been thinking about translation since a kind reader asked what I thought about a […]

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Opinions Posted on: June 20, 2018July 13, 2024

Haven’t I Seen You Before?; Or, Conflicting Thoughts on Using Established Characters

Reading massive amounts of book reviews every week makes it easier to spot tropes. Some […]

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Opinions Posted on: June 13, 2018June 10, 2018

Boycott! Why I’m Not Buying Books from Amazon Anymore

In the last few weeks, I’ve seen more and more articles about the condition Amazon’s […]

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Opinions Posted on: May 23, 2018May 22, 2018

No Point of View; Or, Extended Thoughts about Witness Narrators

Since writing my review of The Butcher’s Daughter—and really since I finished reading Never Anyone But […]

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Opinions Posted on: May 16, 2018May 15, 2018

Magic or Madness? Or, The Genre is in the Interpretation

Usually, assigning genres to a book is not a difficult task. I’m a librarian; we […]

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Opinions Posted on: April 11, 2018July 25, 2018

Curb Your Characters; Or, I Take Issue with Truman Capote

An author I follow on Twitter posted the following quote and I immediately wanted to […]

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Opinions Posted on: March 28, 2018July 25, 2018

Bookish News I Wouldn’t Mind Never Seeing Again & Bookish News I Will Read Everytime

Now that I’ve spent more than a year writing posts that round up the bookish […]

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Opinions Posted on: March 21, 2018March 20, 2018

When Does a Trope Become a Genre?

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about a type of story (strangers in buildings) […]

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Opinions Posted on: February 28, 2018March 4, 2018

That’s It?!? Thoughts About Bad Endings

Min Jin Lee’s Pachinko (review pending) has been sitting in the stack of books I brought home […]

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Opinions Posted on: February 14, 2018February 27, 2018

Oh My God With the Feelings; Or, I Never Got Romeo and Juliet

I don’t have a hard time with unlikeable characters. I can understand curmudgeons. The characters […]

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