Book Club In Session: The Passage by Justin Cronin
Lauren: I know I know, I chose another vampire book… Well shush, I know what I like!
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Book Review: Heads in Beds – A Reckless Memoir of Hotels, Hustles, and So-Called Hospitality by Jacob Tomsky
Well, it is officially time to eschew the notion that your life must be interesting in some way to write a memoir. If Jacob Tomsky can do it, then anyone can do it. But I hope your attempt turns out to be more stimulating than Heads in Beds: A Reckless Memoir of Hotels, Hustles, and […]
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Imagine waking up in a hospital bed with no recollection of how you got there or how long you’ve been there. Budding journalist Susannah Cahalan woke up to this nightmare when she was 24 years old. In her gripping memoir Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness, the reader is invited to journey with Cahalan to […]
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Benioff brings a fresh perspective that is both quirky and lighthearted to what would otherwise be rather depressing content: survival in World War II’s Russia.
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For all the hype Gone Girl, by Gillian Flynn, was getting, I was expecting it to be the mystery/thriller of the year for 2012 (as many blogs, publications, lists, etc. claimed). Sure, it was gripping and held my attention, but by the end all evaluations of how good or bad the book was were replaced […]
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We’re back! Lauren and I haven’t had a book club discussion in a long time, so we are starting the year off right by discussing Game of Thrones!
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Many of you reading this have probably already read The Hobbit, if not recently, then at least way back in grade school. Many of you also probably loved it. Unfortunately, as much as I wanted to be one of those adoring fans, I can not include myself as one of the many. Please read on […]
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Is it unfair that every new book J. K. Rowling writes for the rest of her days will be compared to the much loved Harry Potter series? Maybe. But that’s life, and I can’t really feel all that sorry for her, considering that Potter made her a billionaire. For more on why Heather believes Rowling […]
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Fifty Shades of Grey? No way— more like Fifty Shades of Ghastly. Because that is what this book is in every way. Consider the following review a cautionary tale of what happens when one avid reader finally gives in to the pressure of participating in the latest literary craze.
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As sad as it is to admit, my memories of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are not as strong as I would like them to be. I couldn’t even tell you which one I “was” based on personality comparison (I mostly wanted to be Leonardo because he wore blue, had swords, and his name also […]
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