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Dear Bookmarks, You know I love you, right? You know I appreciate everything you do for me by keeping my place in the pages of the four books I’m reading at the same time, depending on my mood that day. When I bought each and every one of you, it was with the intention that […]
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Recently I explored why Times New Roman, Arial, and Helvetica became some of the most widely used fonts out there, and that got me thinking: All these fonts are typeface sets that had to be designed at one point, letter by letter. So who does the designing? Fonts are born in type foundries, which are […]
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The first romance novels I read that stuck with me came from the minds of Nora Roberts and Julie Garwood. I gobbled up the tales of a gifted shop owner reconnecting with the handsome older brother of her murdered best friend, a boat racing badass falling in love with the goodhearted social worker assigned to […]
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Ergodic sounds vaguely Lovecraftian, doesn’t it? Rest assured, it is not, although do buckle in for a ride through fiction’s coolest niche genre: the weird and unconventional world of ergodic literature. If you’re looking for more books like House of Leaves or anything else by Mark Z. Danielewski, this list is for you. Read…
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Recently, a really great discussion sparked by Shreya Sajankila, also known as Reddit user mauvemittens, got book lovers talking about classics. Namely, what books of the last 20 years do we think will become classics in a few centuries and earn those titles the kind of cultural clout we give to the works of Toni Morrison, Charles Dickens, […]
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