NPR's Top 100 Beach Reads...

...as voted upon by NPR listeners and ganked from pussreboots. Apparently the NPR audience divides pretty evenly between people who take brain candy to the beach and people who take serious literature. The titles I've read cover to cover are bolded, the titles I've yet to finish are underlined, the titles I own but haven't read yet are italicized, and hotlinks redirect to my reviews of the novels or authors in question. ( Read more... )

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TWIB-III: 39 (7/13-7/19)

Surpringly, I managed to read two books during the final week leading up to the Hell Thesis deadline, both of them extremely good. ( They are here. )

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Fuck you, Arnold Schwarzenegger...

...for cutting 100% of California's budge for domestic violence programs.

Which just goes to show you yet again that rich white people have no idea what it's like to be poor and helpless, nor do they particularly give a fuck in many cases.

That will be all.