Behind the Bookcase
thoughts, mutters, dust bunnies and bookish bluster
Amelia Carolyn
- Location
- St. Louis, Missouri, USA
- Birthday
- December 31
- Bio
- Amelia is a writer and book addict from Saint Louis, Missouri.
Her past work has appeared in The Madison County Record, LegalNewsline, The Northwest Herald, The Kane County Chronicle, The Galesburg Register-Mail, The DeKalb Daily Chronicle, the St. Louis Beacon, and other publications.
She lives with a bunny-obsessed Basset Hound and overflowing book shelves.
MY RECENT POSTS
- Book by Book: Reading the
Tomes that Time . . . and I
Forgot
December 29, 2011 09:49AM - A Dispatch from the Education
War: The First Student
January 06, 2011 02:18PM - Cliches Romance Novelists
Should Avoid Ala the Plague
January 10, 2011 02:37PM - The First 15 Windowsill Books
I Need to Read . . .
January 04, 2011 01:39PM - A (Semi) Writer's Resolutions
December 30, 2010 12:09AM
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “We should also take back
control of American history
books.
Try to justify it
how…”
February 09, 2011 12:41PM - “This won my "Worst
Commercial of the Year,"
award.
Groupon and
Timothy…”
February 07, 2011 03:11PM - “Really interesting post.
This is an angle of censorship
that
is seldom
discussed…”
January 10, 2011 01:55PM - “Yes, Americans may burn
books and flags and they
may
protest.
But let us
not forge…”
September 07, 2010 01:10PM - “Thank you for pointing
out that while Beck speaks
one
Christian faction, he
does…”
August 31, 2010 11:16AM
Amelia Carolyn's Links
- Editor’s Pick
- 1485 Views
- 10 Comments
A Year of Reading Dangerously!
SEPTEMBER 28, 2009 12:53PM EDT
- Editor’s Pick
- 6697 Views
- 25 Comments
"Two Mommies,"an egg and a sperm,am I a prude or just queasy
OCTOBER 26, 2009 1:04PM EDT
- Editor’s Pick
- 4617 Views
- 6 Comments
When "Daddy's Roommate" isn't just a "roommate."
OCTOBER 6, 2009 9:26PM EDT
- 868 Views
- 10 Comments
Suck "Finn?": Banning Twain and taking race back in time
FEBRUARY 23, 2010 2:03PM EST
- 1096 Views
- 7 Comments
A Brief and Rambling History of Banning Books -Part 1
SEPTEMBER 25, 2009 1:01PM EDT
- 713 Views
- 8 Comments
Ban the Dictionary? Why not the Thesaurus too?
JANUARY 25, 2010 4:14PM EST
- Editor’s Pick
- 997 Views
- 1 Comments
Goblins and Ghosts and ... Stories, Oh My?
SEPTEMBER 29, 2009 12:49AM EDT
- 912 Views
- 8 Comments
Who Thinks "the Caged Bird?" Should Stop Singing?
NOVEMBER 13, 2009 11:17AM EST
- 568 Views
- 2 Comments
Connection and Kindle
JANUARY 4, 2009 12:09AM EST
- 862 Views
- 3 Comments
Banned Books Alert: Pakistan founder book banned
AUGUST 20, 2009 10:59AM EDT
- Editor’s Pick
- 1278 Views
- 8 Comments
The Belated "Tintin" Discussion
SEPTEMBER 7, 2009 10:44PM EDT
- 1199 Views
- 3 Comments
Passings: Jim Carroll, punk, poet, banned book author
SEPTEMBER 15, 2009 12:14AM EDT
- 545 Views
- 0 Comments
Not Quite a 'Year of Reading Dangerously'
JULY 6, 2010 2:54PM EDT
- 600 Views
- 3 Comments
The Pagan Puts up a Christmas Tree
DECEMBER 19, 2008 12:03PM EST
- 636 Views
- 3 Comments
The Pajama Game
FEBRUARY 16, 2009 1:28PM EST
- 535 Views
- 1 Comments
Jobs I Could Be Doing
FEBRUARY 19, 2009 1:21PM EST
- 446 Views
- 2 Comments
When to say "Enough"
MARCH 6, 2009 3:51PM EST
- 1079 Views
- 7 Comments
Passings: Karla Kuskin, children's author/banned book author
AUGUST 26, 2009 4:13PM EDT
- 773 Views
- 2 Comments
What's wrong with the "Philharmonic"
SEPTEMBER 20, 2009 11:25PM EDT
- 693 Views
- 3 Comments
Battling in a "Chocolate War"
JANUARY 4, 2010 1:12PM EST
- 847 Views
- 0 Comments
I Graduated Cum Laude and I Still Read Picture Books
OCTOBER 8, 2010 1:05PM EDT
- 279 Views
- 1 Comments
A (Semi) Writer's Resolutions
DECEMBER 30, 2010 12:09AM EST
- 571 Views
- 0 Comments
The First 15 Windowsill Books I Need to Read . . .
JANUARY 4, 2011 3:17PM EST
- 625 Views
- 2 Comments
You will praise "the Lard."
JANUARY 5, 2009 6:13PM EST
- 626 Views
- 1 Comments
A long absence ... failed resolutions
FEBRUARY 11, 2009 2:35PM EST
Amelia Carolyn's Favorites
Updates
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Orange, Almond, White Chocolate Muffins--Foodie Tuesday
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Why Travel?
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Pirates vs. artists: There go your royalties!
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Heather Michon, Can 'Slut' Be Reformed? Repost
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I Won't Vote for Romney But His Wife Works
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Announcing the Salon-Alternet Investigative Fund
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Been gone so long
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Why Aren't Men More Outraged by the Oral Contraception Issue
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