I haven’t really found anything lately that I was super-excited to read, or at least was able to read fairly quickly. I tried out a few library books that didn’t quite meet my standards, and am still in the middle of In the Garden of Beasts, but otherwise I’ve run dry. I haven’t even listened to […]
Fifty Shades of Not Happening
Whenever a book craze sweeps the nation, I feel compelled to check it out. Sometimes I am disappointed, as in The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. Other times, I am reasonably satisfied, as in the Twilight series or The Hunger Games trilogy. And of course, there was that one time that reading an intensely popular novel changed […]
The Difficult Read
I’m reading a book right now that I know is going to take awhile to read. Not because it’s particularly lengthy, but because of the difficult subject matter. It’s about the life of U.S. Ambassador William Dodd and his family during their post in Berlin, right after the election of Hitler as chancellor, and through […]
Magazine Guilt
Like most of America, I subscribe to a lot of magazines. Here’s the current list of my subscriptions: Women’s Health Shape Self Fitness Real Simple In Style People Style Watch Fit Pregnancy The Writer And here’s the current list of titles in the ever-growing stack by my bed: Women’s Health Shape Self Fitness Real Simple […]
Every Last One
Spoiler alert: In this blog post, I intend to give you major reason not to read Every Last One, and then flip it around to tell you why you should read it anyway. Ready? I recently listened to this book on audiobook. Though beautifully written, it was, without a doubt, the most sad, depressing, difficult […]
The List I Wish I’d Made
This afternoon I stole a few minutes to wander through my local library. It’s a small branch, with the mere basics of fiction: all the classics, and the most popular books of the last 10-15 years. As I walked the aisles, titles and authors’ names jumped out at me like the formulas in A Beautiful […]