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Friday Fifteen

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It’s Friday, right? It’s felt like such a long week that I’m a little scared we aren’t officially at Friday. Maybe the Friday Fifteen will make it feel more real. Onto the reviews!

97807636171031. Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
Collins works in touching moments and touching moments in the Hunger Games sequel.

2. Birds of America by Lorrie Moore
Moore balances the literary short story well with a good dose of humor.

3. Felicity’s Surprise (American Girls: Felicity #3) by Valerie Tripp
Middle school dances are cooler in Colonial Williamsburg.

4. Owl Babies by Martin Waddell
So. Freaking. Cute. The fuzzy owls, the anxiety over mom coming back–can’t even deal.

5. Feed by M.T. Anderson
It’s not all GIFs and kitten videos when your brain’s connected to the internet.

A Room of One’s Own

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Artist Julia Callon’s Houses of Fiction project is freaking awesome. She’s designed dioramas inspired by famous female characters in classic literature. Each diorama has two images–one representing the “passive, subservient woman” and the other representing the “madness”–in order to reflect the conflicting ideas of womanhood in these novels. I especially like her take on The Yellow Wallpaper:

Make sure to check out the full set of photographs on Callon’s website.

(image: Julia Callon)(via The Atlantic)

Outside of a Dog, a Book Is a Man’s Best Friend. Inside of a Dog It’s Too Dark to Read.

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What’s better than photos of famous writers? Photos of famous writers with their pets, that’s what! My favorite:

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I need to keep that kitten-on-the-shoulder shot in mind for future author photos. Of course, I’ll need to one-up Twain and have a kitten on each shoulder. Bring on the kittens!

Make sure to check out all the pictures; they’re so cute! And if you still need some more bookish animals, check out these pictures of cats and their books.

(image: The Atlantic)

Friday Fifteen

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Managed to make it through the week and to the Friday Fifteen. Check out this week’s list of fifteen-word reviews:

97804402191701. A Summer to Die by Lois Lowry
I’d be curious to read this now in conjunction with The Fault in Our Stars.

2. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
Ceepy novel with an awkward, meek main character in an English manor home. Heck yeah.

3. Bear Snores On by Karma Wilson and Jane Chapman
Makes me want a winter part with bunnies, badgers, tea and popcorn.

4. World and Space (Childcraft: the How and Why Library #4) by World Book-Childcraft International
Geology, astronomy, and all sorts of natural sciences for kids.

5. Selected Poems And Four Plays of William Butler Yeats by William Butler Yeats, ed. M. L. Rosenthal
Read it for English lit survey class, but Yeats is one to go back to.