You are probably all familiar with the boldly emblazoned (and often bedazzled) word “PINK” festooned across the seats of sweatpants from the ever popular Victoria’s Secret PINK collection. “LOVE PINK” is the motto many girls’ rumps loudly proclaim as they saunter by! And why shouldn’t we “LOVE PINK?”
Read more "Book Review: Cinderella Ate My Daughter by Peggy Orenstein"I am probably one of the few English majors that graduated without ever reading any Ernest Hemingway in college or high school. I’m not exactly sure how I managed that, but it is what it is.
Read more "Book Review: The Paris Wife by Paula McLain"It’s been a while since I’ve read Let’s Pretend This Never Happened (A Mostly True Memoir) by Jenny Lawson, so I’ll keep this brief. This book and its stories (originally published on her blog) were pretty funny. It took me a while to look past the fact that Lawson drops the word “totally” about every […]
Read more "Book Review: Let’s Pretend This Never Happened (A Mostly True Memoir) by Jenny Lawson"I am one of the few people that LOVES books and movies about runners, but who can’t personally run more than 200 feet (and that’s being generous) without my lungs shriveling up and imploding (inspiring, I know…but if you are looking to me for inspiration, I feel sorry for you. That’s what the books about […]
Read more "Book Review: Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand"With this month’s book club (ok, we don’t really have that kind of time sensitive structure), Heather, Lauren, and Zach sit down with A. Lee Martinez’s Monster, a book concentrating on the hidden world of demon/creature catching going on right under the common folks’ noses. (For a spoiler free review, read Heather’s solo write up […]
Read more "Book Club In Session: Monster by A. Lee Martinez"If you are looking for the Cliff Notes version of A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry, here it is: And they lived UNhappily ever after (and the whole “live” part is negotiable). The End.
Read more "Book Review: A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry"Imagine you are an aspiring writer, stuck working at a five-and-dime store in a small town for an eternity more than you had planned. The novel you furiously began scribbling late into the night after working long shifts at the store is collecting dust, still unfinished almost ten years later. Resigned to failure, you complacently […]
Read more "Book Review: Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith"Ever wonder what happens after we die? It’s a heavy question, and one that I choose not to think about all too often for the simple reason that we can never really know the answer until we die. Maybe we are just gone, maybe our spirits live on, or maybe the devout believers in God […]
Read more "Book Review: The Brief History of the Dead by Kevin Brockmeier"Remember watching Dawson’s Creek back in the day and thinking, what 16 year old honestly talks like that? Armed with prodigious vocabularies (I am allowed to use the word prodigious as I am 26 and not 16), they philosophized about the metaphysical, the meaning of life, and so forth as casually as if they were […]
Read more "Book Review: The Fault in Our Stars by John Green"I’ve had my share of rough times while abroad in Spain – tearfully attempting to explain my vivid yellow diarrhea to doctors who openly mocked me after spending a horrific night hallucinating on the toilet; being guilted into eating ham that was sliced off a pig leg in our pantry – a pig leg that […]
Read more "Book Review: The Time in Between by María Dueñas"
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