Everybody knows a busybody or has a snooping neighbor—if you don’t know someone like this, it’s probably you! Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales is a fantastic novel-in-verse for busybodies everywhere, featuring a broad cast of characters portrayed with all of the details we love to snoop on.

The great classics of literature tend to be a bit intimidating, but when you get past that “Great Classic” aura, some of them are surprisingly hip and relatable! This month we’ll be getting into the holiday spirit by putting the LIT into LITerature (and maybe finding some gifts!), starting with a personal favorite of mine—James…

I am choosing this opportune (?) moment to post a revised edition of the review of my printer’s user manual I did in the early days of this blog. As I attempt to complete the paper counterpart to my master’s project, ye olde printer is causing me no end of grief.

It’s officially October: the month of Halloween, and here at Short & Sweet, we’re celebrating by re-running our best spooky posts. First up: Monster by Christopher Pike.

It’s Banned Books Week, so we are taking the week off at Short & Sweet to celebrate our freedom to read. Join us by reading your favorite banned book (mine is Ulysses by James Joyce) or reading a new one from this list of the top 100 banned books from 2000-2009 from ALA.

This week, we review one of my trusty reference books: Tintinalli’s Emergency Medicine. Also, shrooms.