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ARCHIVES
JULY,
2008: My
Music Is Where I'd Like You to Touch
By
YENNIE CHEUNG
Even as a professional music journalist, I've endured plenty
of disparaging groupie jokes and advances from salacious musicians
(attention, rock stars: "You look like my wife; let's make
out" is not a good pick-up line).
[Full article]
JUNE,
2008: Word of Mouth
By
YENNIE CHEUNG
Not all books are worth taking, even if they're free—and
I'm not just talking about that copy of The Secret
that my friend Genevieve tried foisting upon me a few weeks
ago.
[Full article]
MAY,
2008: How to Hit on Kyle at the Gym
By
KYLE OLSON
Have you ever noticed what everyone else at the gym is reading?
Does it make you sad that it's all either US Weekly
or copies of The Five People You Meet in Heaven? Yeah.
You're right. I'm a jerk.
[Full article]
APRIL,
2008: The Liars Club
By
KYLE OLSON
Kyle: My Life in Gangs wouldn't last too long. I'd
have high school friends showing up at Random House's door
with Dungeons & Dragons character sheets saying, "How could
Kyle have been in the Crips and successfully played
a level 18 Elven ranger? That just doesn't make sense!"
[Full article]
MARCH,
2008: Lost in Adaptation
By
KYLE OLSON
God help you if you're a comic book fan. Alan Moore is shit
upon fairly regularly. Did you guys see League of Extraordinary
Gentlemen? No? Thank God.
[Full article]
FEBRUARY,
2008: A Little Subjectivity
By
YENNIE CHEUNG
I'm mystified by the idea that one can't judge the latter
by such broad but essential terms as content and originality.
Isn't the content and originality what we love about To
Kill a Mockingbird? Infinite Jest? A Heartbreaking
Work of Staggering Genius? Or maybe it's what some of
you hate about A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius?
[Full article]
JANUARY,
2008: New Year's Resolutions
By KYLE OLSON
I attempt
to read about 50 books a year. I'm unsure where that number
comes from, and Lord knows I've never truly accomplished it,
but it's a nice goal. I've technically read 52 books, but
a knee-high stack of graphic novels has helped pad that number
considerably.
[Full article]
DECEMBER,
2007: What Do You Get a Douche Boyfriend for the Holidays?
By
KYLE OLSON and YENNIE CHEUNG
We've done our best to cover a variety of tastes, as we know
that a gal who reads Jack Kerouac and Edith Wharton could
just as easily love a book about the Phoenix Suns (and not
just because Yennie's brother calls Steve Nash her "boyfriend").
[Full article]
NOVEMBER,
2007: In
Which We Toot Our Own Horns
By KYLE OLSON and YENNIE CHEUNG
If you knocked anyone up during our launch party, she's probably
having your lovechild right about now. Just so we're not being
sexist about this, if you got knocked up, you could be having
a kid right now, too!
[Full article]
OCTOBER,
2007: With
My Apologies to Stephen Chbosky
By
YENNIE CHEUNG
I feel that this update provides many of the things we wanted
to see when we began this website: thoughtful reviews, exposure
to lesser-known works, the inspiration to pick up new books…and
the chance to read the new Nick Hornby two months before it
came out.
[Full article]
SEPTEMBER,
2007: In Which We Explore the Positive Side of Being Late
By
KYLE OLSON and YENNIE CHEUNG
The respondents to the poll were quoted saying things like,
"I just get sleepy when I read," and the impressive, "Fiction
just doesn't interest me. If I'm going to get a story, I'll
get a movie." Fan-freaking-tastic. Vonnegut loses to Underdog.
Solid.
[Full article]
AUGUST,
2007: Accio Wizard Fervor!
By
KYLE OLSON
The media saturation over the release of a book has
been insane. It's so refreshing to have the public clamoring
for the written word, as opposed to, say, the latest antics
of drunken heiresses or the paternity tests of pain-killer'ed
ex-nude models.
[Full article]
JULY,
2007: Somewhere
Beyond Hogsmead
By YENNIE CHEUNG
Chances
are good that by the end of the month, we'll be uttering non-magical
curses at anyone who says "muggle"; by the end of August,
anyone who mentions Quidditch will find themselves in contact
with the business end of a broomstick.
[Full article]
JUNE,
2007: Funny Books and Tight Tights
By KYLE OLSON and YENNIE CHEUNG
For the most part, we've used this as an excuse to bulk up
the site with reviews of a genre that was severely underrepresented
in our archive. (Well, that, and it has been easier to get
our writers to review "geeky" comic books than it was asking
them to review poetry. Go figure.)
[Full article]
MAY,
2007: Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
(November 11, 1922-April 11, 2007)
By YENNIE CHEUNG
Imagine—a
classroom of high school teens not only enjoying but actually
laughing through required reading! Surely, no higher
compliment exists for an author.
[Full article]
APRIL,
2007: The Saga Continues
By KYLE OLSON
"Thanks, HBC! You helped me find out about books which I enjoyed
very much! If any of you are ever in [insert name of your
town here], you should come over and I will bake cookies with
you. Also, tell Kyle I think he is cute and that all of my
friends have mad crushes on him."
[Full article]
MARCH,
2007:
The Genesis of the Hipster Book Club
By KYLE OLSON
Nothing is less hip than a bunch of dorks on the internet
talking about how they like books.
[Full article]
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