Apparently Mary was from Somerville! According to the article, Mary’s family owned a farm in Sterling, MA and one of the ewe’s had twin...

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Sorry I’ve been pretty bad at posting lately but I have a good excuse: I just had a baby and am slowly getting back into the swing of...

According to reviews online, the miniseries isn’t very faithful to the novels, but it has made me wonder why I’ve never heard of them...

I seem to be in (yet another) Jane Austen kick these days. Author and Vanity Fair contributing editor Fran Lebowitz on Jane Austen (via...

Title Page from 1st ed. of Emma (Img from wikipedia) Hooray! My first blog post for the new year (and January is halfway done…oops). Some...

In addition to critiquing each other’s writing every other week, my critique group has a monthly (published) book discussion. We read MG...

Have you seen this list of Gossip Girl character Dan Humphrey’s favorite books for 2009? I haven’t read any of them, but I have read...

Okay, so I was going to do this whole post about the best kid’s books I read this year, but while I was going through my list on...

Dear Blog, It has been a long time since I have posted anything and for that I apologize. I have no excuses other than to say that I just...

PoojaMakhijani.com has a great list online of YA books that depict South Asia and South Asian chacters. Head over there and check it out!...

One thing I like about my Kindle is its ability to highlight passages/words and view them outside of the book in a separate file. I use...

The story is an interesting and realistic glimpse into the lives of a normal Bengali family of this time period. At times, though, I...

Just as cute as the first one–with a bit more action–though I wished it had taken place on Nim’s little island again. But there were baby...

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