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Let’s Pretend This Never Happened

Jenny Lawson is a blogger. She’s a pretty popular blogger, but that wasn’t enough. No, she had to write a book. “Let’s Pretend This Never Happened,” is a nonfictional memoir of sorts that is laugh out loud funny but also so full of profanity that you might want to read it behind locked doors... »

A good man gone horribly wrong

A small town in western Virginia is as good a place as any to make a home for oneself, and so Charlie Beale arrived in Brownsburg with a truck, a suitcase of money and a set of knives. He found a piece of land along the river and bought it, cash on the barrel.... »

Confessions of an habitual book buyer

Confessions of an habitual book buyer The Lit. Chick By Heather Brush Everyone has a weakness; mine is the written word. I brought home several more books over the weekend. I have bookshelves lining my living room walls, I have bookshelves in my bedroom. I have boxes of books in the garage, in the... »

Exceptional depiction of the process of insanity

The Lit. Chick Book review by Heather Brush hbrush@ourvalley.org “The Quickening Maze” by Adam Foulds, Penguin, 272 pages, ISBN: 0143117793. As if portraying the characters of two notable poets were not enough, Adam Foulds penned an exceptional depiction of the process of insanity. “The Quickening Maze” is not a brand new book, but it... »

Publishing books in Blacksburg, VA

The Lit. Chick By Heather Brush A small publishing company exists in Blacksburg, VA, where it has been putting words in print for more than 25 years. Writer Michael Abraham is half of the publishing team there, his wife Jane answers some general questions about the business. Q: What is the gist of Pocahontas... »

Profit at the price of souls

The Lit. Chick By Heather Brush “A Walk Across the Sun,” by Corban Addison, Sterling Publishing, $24.95, 384 pages, ISBN: 978-1-4027-9280-9 “We’re taught in history class that slavery ended with the Civil War,” says author Corban Addison, “when in reality there are more slaves alive in the world today than ever before.” Two million... »

What the Dormouse said

The Lit. Chick By Heather Brush “What the Dormouse Said: Lessons for Grown-ups from Children’s Books,” collected by Amy Gash, Algonquin Books, $9.95, 146 pages, ISBN: 978-1-56512-451-6. One of my earliest memories is of being read to in a small town library, by the children’s librarian. She was reading “The Little Engine That Could”... »

Horror successful in book and film

“The Woman in Black: A Ghost Story,” by Susan Hill, Vintage Classic: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 176 pages, $14., ISBN:0307745317 It was not a dark and stormy night the first time Arthur Kipps saw the woman in black, but broad daylight, in the middle of town, if the tiny village of Crythin Gifford, England,... »