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The Happiest Hour – 1/18/20

Snow days call for unpronounceable red wines and homemade chocolate chip cookies. If that sounds like a pole vault into Calorie City, don’t worry: my ancient radiator will make sure I sweat it out by daybreak.

Here’s what you missed this week:

Here’s the question I have after reading this: how do we get on one of these photo shoots? (Kirkus)
The stars are telling me to read Oligarchy. (LitHub)
I’m so excited to follow this reading project. What books would you recommend for your home state? (LA Times)
Merriam-Webster wants to make sure you know as many words as possible to call someone a liar. This will come in handy as you watch this year’s debates. (Merriam-Webster.com)

Cheers,

January 18, 2020January 18, 2020

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The Happiest Hour – 10/27/19

Sundays aren’t normally happy hour days (they’re more like drinking-in-dread-as-Monday-approaches kind of days). But after guarding box lunches for middle age vegetarians at a work event this weekend, I’m feeling pretty ecstatic knowing I don’t have to step into my office tomorrow.

Here’s what you missed this week:

Looking for another book club to follow? Gasp. We forgive you. May we suggest you let the stars decide? (Entertainment Weekly)
Here’s the question every literary scholar or critic should be asking: “instead of writing an epic on whaling, could Melville have written the epic of bowling instead?” (New York Review of Books)
Just in time for Halloween: the creepiest author photos in existence. Shel Silverstein will wreck you. (LitHub)
In important news this week: Sexiest Man Alive Idris Elba is sponsoring a new podcast focused on books, writers, and conversations for people of color. (The Bookseller)
Do you think we can use this blog as cash? (LA Times)

Cheers,

October 27, 2019October 27, 2019

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The Happiest Hour – 6/2/19

Blessed be the boss that releases you early from the hallowed halls of the Crystal Palace, after a week of attempting to stem the frustration of book nerds who missed the galley drop by minutes.

And now, my watch has ended.

Here’s what you missed this week (or really, what I missed this week. Cell service in the Javits is abysmal):

Summer Reading is here! Swan dive into this extensive list of must reads. (NYT)
What exactly is a beach read? Simply put: books that publicists will send out in tote bags. Ours must have gotten lost in the mail. (Vulture)
Beach-town booksellers share their recommendations for summer reading, and remind us that no, we still haven’t read Where The Crawdads Sing. (NYT)
As if we needed more reasons to go to Big Sur. My itinerary is now complete. (LA Times)

Cheers,

June 2, 2019June 2, 2019

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