Author: allison burris
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Hamlette is hosting a Jane Austen week, where lots of bloggers are posting on one of our favorite authors. There are discussions of her books and the various adaptations they’ve spawned in film and further. You can find all of the other posts here! I chose to write about Northanger Abbey, one of the more overlooked…
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Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature brought to you by The Broke and the Bookish. Happy Valentine’s Day! I hope you are feeling the love today. Valentine’s Day has never been a really big deal to me. My fiance and I tend to do little things. He usually picks up flowers for me, usually…
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I’m totally fascinated by (some might say obsessed with) adaptation. If you believe, as I do, that nothing is truly original, then pretty much every cultural product is some form of adaptation or interpretation. I think of it as an extremely creative process: how to make unfamiliar the familiar (fairy tale adaptation); how to bring…
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Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature from The Broke and The Bookish. I’m not going to lie–this week’s topic was really difficult for me. There are sometimes books where I wonder what this would have been like with more female characters, or wished a book had a little more resolution or a different ending.…
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Title: Foundation and Empire Author: Isaac Asimov How it fulfills the challenge: Every year our library has two huge book sales put on by the Friends of the Library. I helped run the fall sale, but I went a day early to check out all the books. I ended up with a huge box of books for both…
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Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature brought to you by The Broke and the Bookish. What I love about graphic novels is the way they use pictures to evoke mood in a more immediate way than words alone. So much of communication is non-verbal and graphic novels let you experience the importance of…
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Title: Bouchon Bakery Authors: Thomas Keller & Sebastien Rouxel with Susie Heller, Matthew McDonald, Michael Ruhlman, & Amy Vogler How it fulfills the challenge: Have you seen the list of authors? That’s a lot for one cookbook, even as big as this one is… Genre: Cookbook Quick Description: For the serious home or small professional baker. A collection of…
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Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature from The Broke and the Bookish. Today’s topic is a freebie, so I thought I’d address a topic that I missed last year–my favorite historical periods to read and learn about. But it turned out to be very difficult to narrow these down, and I really like to…
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Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature from The Broke and the Bookish. I think that you find books at the right times to read them…or you don’t and you miss out on that book. Sometimes the book is the right one for you, and you can read it over and over again without it…
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If you look up at the top of your screen, you’ll notice that the name of the blog is no longer “Aliza Shandel” but instead “Ink & Reel.” I’m not going to be changing the domain name yet (I’ll give a heads up before that happens), but I thought it would be nice to get…
Allison Burris 