
Top Ten Tuesday
One of my favorite blogs on the Bookternet, The Broke and The Bookish, hosts a weekly link-up every Tuesday with various topics where participants list 10 of... something. I've wanted to join in for awhile... so let's see how this goes! This Tuesday's topic?: Top Ten Places Books Have Made Us Want to Visit 1. Highgate Cemetery in London This was inspired by my reading (and then subsequent re-reading) of Audrey Niffenegger's Her Fearful Symmetry. With a rich history, Highg

Walden by Henry David Thoreau
Read my review here! #henrydavidthoreau #walden

Where BearAllen will go when she dies
Because I'm a genius, I successfully worked my inaugural visit to Strand Bookstore in NYC into an otherwise boring client visit. And it was everything I ever thought it could be. It was full of all the books and all the book-related merchandise that I would be happy to spend Lorelai's entire college tuition on. As silly as it sounds, I found myself tearing up as I stood there and took it all in. I was surrounded by the kind of people that fully understand tearing up in the m

