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Be Still My Beating Heart!

I cannot tell you all how excited I am about this website! It’s been bookmarked in my Favorites page for well over a month now, and I wanted to write about it the minute I came across it but I could never seem to find the right words to express my deep love. But like [...]

Lifestyle Gumbo: Celebs as Literary Figures, Hot or Not?

I ran across this slideshow from StyleList that pits modern day celebs as classic literary heroines. Here are my favorite looks from the shoot:

[Sienna Miller as Natasha from Lev Tolstoy's War and Peace]

[Marcia Cross as Marguerite from Alexandre Dumas' La Dame aux Camélias]

[Emily Blunt as Gwendolyne from Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest]

The campaign [...]

I Love a Good Gem!

Unpolished Gem: My Mother, My Grandmother, and MeAlice Pung

Ok, UL world, I have a confession to make…ready? I am…a book cover judger. Yes, I will pick up a classic, and few new books on the block but I can’t leave the library (yes library, I’m a student on a budget) without a random selection [...]

Oh, Zadie

[Zadie, clutching one of her books]

We’re Sorry! Okay, I just wanted to get that out of the way before I commence to posting. We (as in the fabulously bookish/ridiculously busy bookworms of this blog) have completely neglected our project in favor of other delights, like starting new jobs, going to school, moving, and overall conquering [...]