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Maybe we have the soul of a purist, but we feel a little uncomfortable with Nancy Drew’s breasts. Nancy, Bess, and George as manga chicks, while not quite as bad as last year’s bizarre updating of the Drew stories, seems to be messing with the spirit of the series. The only thing worse could be […]

As evidenced by our lame attempts at headlines, we are title-impaired. Truly. If an excellent should happen to cross our path, we might trip over it, but won’t recognize it for what it is. The police report will read something like “the mysterious object appeared before the subject but disappeared before it could be identified. […]

We are not much for reading between the lines, so may have misinterpreted this: There will be no original content on Beatrice today (from me, that is), as I am out on personal business all day. In a related matter, the Significant Other will henceforth be referred to on this blog as Mrs. Beatrice. On […]

Okay, here’s the deal. We have a secret weakness for television. Sure, we make fun of it, but we believe television is our generation’s, well, television. Despite the fact that TiVo, that glorious invention, has made time shifting our new hobby (previously shape shifting, but we do so love food), we make it a point […]

Where we expected white smoke, we got a black spot. Darn that Happy Booker for crushing our aspirations. We know she’s trying to figure out where we park the Booksquaremobile after we’re done fighting crime. It’s so hard being a blogger of mystery. You’re stuck inside Fahrenheit 451. Which book do you want to be? […]

We have been uncovered: cranky blogger by day, mild mannered student by night. What started as an innocent foray into the world of academia became an experience we can only describe as all Tod Goldberg, all the time. You know things are weird when we start inventing games* — ours was how many connections we […]

Remember when life was simple? That golden era when you merely had to worry about the books on your shelves, the magazines cluttering your coffee table, the CDs in your player, the clothes you wore, the car you drove, the cell phone you used, the coffee your drank? Yes, it was a simpler time. We […]

Very few literary agencies receive the Booksquare Seal of Approval. Setting our rigorous screening criteria aside, we have been bogged down in the Seal’s design process forever. Who knew that drawing stick figures was so hard? However, when the seal is done, we will seriously consider The Knight Agency for the honor. Deidre Knight, Pamela […]

It was only a matter of time before the big guns realized this Internet thing was more than a passing fad. Last week, Rupert Murdoch got religion; this week, it’s the venerable Associated Press. As always, this type of epiphany (which we learned, much to our surprise, is a concept invented by James Joyce. Also […]

It strikes us that today could be a Theme Day. It also strikes us that we don’t have the right outfit, so this will likely be our final Dan Wickett-related post of the day (he had a very busy weekend). Building on his previous interviews of litbloggers and editors of literary journals, Dan braves the […]