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Oct 7, 2020

Reading Quirks

Weird Things that Bookish Nerds Do! Reading Quirks is a witty and light-hearted ode to the immense pleasure of reading and its resulting byproduct: neurosis.

Books

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Reading Quirks
Reading Quirks

Mar 2, 2020

Book of the Month, March 2020; Topics of Conversation

by Kelsey Capps An idea must be honed by counterargument and speculation for it to advance in sophistication, a process that often requires shedding facets of the original premise as logic and preference begin to tamp down the intellectual ash. Topics of Conversation, Miranda Popkey’s debut novel, takes up this…

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Book of the Month, March 2020; Topics of Conversation
Book of the Month, March 2020; Topics of Conversation

Feb 2, 2020

Book of the Month: The First Stone

by Kelsey Capps In December 9th, 2019, The Washington Post published a damning expose called The Afghanistan Papers. Their reportage was the result of years of legwork and legal battles, and revealed what most sentient Americans suspected already — the war in Afghanistan is a failure, not only as a…

Afghanistan War

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Book of the Month: The First Stone
Book of the Month: The First Stone

Jan 8, 2020

Book of the Month, January 2020: Cantoras

by Kelsey Capps Gay women don’t get works of literary fiction. Andre Aciman, James Baldwin, Christopher Isherwood — the list of men who write about gay men and get published is not only substantial, it’s luminary, award-winning even if it’s not, say, the book club’s cup of tea. Queer women…

LGBTQ

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Book of the Month, January 2020: Cantoras
Book of the Month, January 2020: Cantoras

Nov 4, 2019

Book of the Month, November 2019: They Will Drown in Their Mothers’ Tears

by Kelsey Capps You won’t be able to say this book is boring. Johannes Anyuru, Swedish author and winner of the August Prize (for this book in fact), is thriller master, and the first page of this fast-paced dystopian novel puts you right in the middle of the action —…

Terrorism

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Book of the Month, November 2019: They Will Drown in Their Mothers’ Tears
Book of the Month, November 2019: They Will Drown in Their Mothers’ Tears

Jun 2, 2019

Book of the Month, June 2019 — The Light Years

by Kelsey Capps Some life stories are not for the faint of heart. We often dig into memoirs searching for stories of inspiration, tales of grand adventures or political maneuvers that changed history, but in The Light Years greatness is not so simple. …

Family

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Book of the Month, June 2019 — The Light Years
Book of the Month, June 2019 — The Light Years

Dec 5, 2018

Book of the Month — After the Winter

by Kelsey Capps There’s no better novel to read in the middle of winter than one in which gloom transforms itself into an emotional Spring. Guadalupe Nettel’s After the Winter cuts through the fog by splitting her narrative into intimate, alternating perspectives which cross paths as the novel progresses. t…

Writing

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Book of the Month — After the Winter
Book of the Month — After the Winter

Jan 24, 2018

Reading Quirks #72

The Meaning of Life — And so it ends, our friends. We’ve been producing READING QUIRKS every Wednesday, week by week, for 18 months and we couldn’t be happier about the result. The whole experience has been amazing. Thanks to everybody involved in the project. And thanks to all of you, bookish nerds, who gave us an instant of your attention. We hope we made you smile. Keep an eye out this year, Reading Quirks might be coming to your local bookstore as a proper print book. We’ll keep you updated. In the meantime, you can see all of our comics here.

Comics

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Reading Quirks #72
Reading Quirks #72

Jan 17, 2018

Reading Quirks #71

Marginalia — More Reading Quirks here. We publish a comic page every Wednesday on our social outlets; just look for #ReadingQuirks on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram. You can also check our monthly compilations on our website. Hope you enjoy them. And please, join the conversation and let us know your own reading quirks. We’d love to feature them in the series. Thanks so much for reading our comic. We hope you enjoyed it. If that’s the case, please hit that heart button below so other people could enjoy them too. ♥ ♥ ♥

Comics

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Reading Quirks #71
Reading Quirks #71

Jan 10, 2018

Reading Quirks #70

High Tech — More Reading Quirks here. We publish a comic page every Wednesday on our social outlets; just look for #ReadingQuirks on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram. You can also check our monthly compilations on our website. Hope you enjoy them. And please, join the conversation and let us know your own reading quirks. We’d love to feature them in the series. Thanks so much for reading our comic. We hope you enjoyed it. If that’s the case, please hit that heart button below so other people could enjoy them too. ♥ ♥ ♥

Comics

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Reading Quirks #70
Reading Quirks #70
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