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TN Read-Along #18: The Good Nurse Live Chat
March 17, 2014 – 12:13 PM | 11 Comments
TN Read-Along #18: <em>The Good Nurse</em> Live Chat

The Good Nurse live chat is happening tomorrow — that’s Tuesday March 18 — at 1 PM Eastern!

TN Read-Along #18: The Good Nurse
February 21, 2014 – 6:11 PM | 21 Comments
TN Read-Along #18: <em>The Good Nurse</em>

UPDATE, 3/10/14: I’m in L.A. at the moment and left the book half-read on my kitchen table in Brooklyn AND will not be able to coordinate a live chat, SO: same time next week. That’s …

Tomato Nation Read-Along #18: Poll
February 13, 2014 – 9:56 PM | 9 Comments
Tomato Nation Read-Along #18: Poll

It’s been A YEAR since we all read something together? That’s terrible.

A Word From Our Sponsors: Audible.com
March 17, 2013 – 5:23 AM | No Comment
A Word From Our Sponsors: Audible.com

Audible.com is a great way to take the TN Read-Along books with you — or get caught up on the classics. Listen to the great books on your iPod: Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Dickens, and more …

TN Read-Along #17: And I Don’t Want To Live This Life Discussion Thread
February 26, 2013 – 3:28 PM | 12 Comments
TN Read-Along #17: <I>And I Don’t Want To Live This Life</I> Discussion Thread

Alas, I can’t do a live chat after all; so sorry! Deadlines have intruded, as they tend to do.
I did finish And I Don’t Want To Live This Life, though, and I really felt for …

TN Read-Along #17: And I Don’t Want To Live This Life
February 18, 2013 – 11:13 AM | 12 Comments
TN Read-Along #17: <I>And I Don’t Want To Live This Life</I>

UPDATE! The discussion thread will open Monday 25 February. Vote below on whether/when you could do a live chat — and add any scheduling issues (i.e., “I’m west coast and couldn’t do it at 7:30 …

Around the Tomatoverse: Rocha, Rayna, Ari Gold, and dancing nuts
February 12, 2013 – 4:49 PM | 3 Comments
Around the Tomatoverse: Rocha, Rayna, Ari Gold, and dancing nuts

Above, Coco Rocha schools Buzzfeed on the perfect photobomb. Hee.
On The Blotter, The Amazing Soriano solved the category-spacing ish. Thanks, friend.
On Yahoo!, I recapped The Carrie Diaries, Girls (ugh), and love in an elevator on Nashville; interviewed Coco Rocha about …

Tomato Nation Read-Along #17: Poll
January 31, 2013 – 5:19 PM | 3 Comments
Tomato Nation Read-Along #17: Poll

Or, “Time to hack this pile of Christmas books down to a manageable size.” It’s a fiction/true crime/pop culture fest…with some overlaps there (Bourdain is the first and last things; Spungen is the last two …

Elsewhere in the Tomatoverse: Carrie, commercials, Kingles
January 31, 2013 – 10:49 AM | 8 Comments
Elsewhere in the Tomatoverse: Carrie, commercials, Kingles

On The Blotter, I talked about the ambiguity of Zodiac‘s ending with Matt Zoller Seitz and Mike D’Angelo, and reviewed an excellent Jack the Ripper book. (Coming soon: a “compleat Betty Broderick” line-up from me and …

TN Read-Along #16: Jesus Freaks Discussion Thread
October 15, 2012 – 7:11 PM | 27 Comments
TN Read-Along #16: <I>Jesus Freaks</I> Discussion Thread

I apologize for not posting the discussion thread sooner, but 1) I spent the morning writing what feels like half the content on the internet and 2) I haven’t finished the book yet, because every …