ASoIaF Release Date News: There Still Is No Release Date
[Spoilers, kinda] Game of Thrones has more sex and acronyms than an orgy in an all-hands business meeting. But even less titillating is the fact that there’s still no release date for the final books in the A Song of Ice and Fire (ASoIaF) series?The Winds of Winter (WoW) and A Dream of Spring (ADoS).…
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I Was A Barnes & Noble Bookseller
Yesterday I applied for a job at Barnes & Noble. The last time I?d done so was when I was 21 in 1996, after my my mother interrupted an afternoon spent watching Tom & Jerry. ?I think we should have a dialog about your plans for getting a job,? she told me. ?It begins,? I…
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Who’s worse, Trump or Omarosa?
It’s a trick question, they’re both horrible. America met Omarosa Manigault Newman when she was a 2004 contestant on Trump’s “The Apprentice” (during what seemed like a much, much more innocent time). Omarosa played the villain, a role that didn’t seem to require much acting on her part, and except for expressions of sympathy after…
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Hachette Has Found God
In a move that will surprise no one, Hachette has bought another publishing house?Worthy Publishing Group, which specializes in Christian-themed books, including Jeremiah’s Study Bible; The World Jesus Knew; and a Mike Huckabee book slated for Fall 2018. Located in Nashville, Tenn., Worthy will join the Museum of Bible Books as Elle Claire as the…
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The girl who would have been a killer queen
To quote Sunday’s New York Times’ Book Review: “Picasso desperately wanted to marry her. Peter Sellers would have settled for an affair. John Fowles publicly fantasized about abducting her and keeping her as a prisoner.? With so many A-plus list courters, it would seem the love life of Princess Margaret, Queen Elizabeth II?s late sister,…
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