I’m a big fan of classic television. When I was a kid, we didn’t have a TV for awhile, and the years that we did, we only got PBS. (This is how I became a reader.) So whenever we went on vacation, it was a big treat to watch TV, and my dad took advantage […]
How I Choose Books
Last weekend I was out with my friend at a local bookstore and she asked me, “How do you choose what books to read?” It’s a great question, because there are so many books out there that interest me, but even if I read all day and all night (what a great job that would be!) […]
Lies My Teacher Told Me
In honor of the first week of school, here’s a nonfiction favorite of mine, James Loewen’s Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong. While the title is a great hook (and feeds into the popular teachers-as-villains theme this country is enjoying right now) it’s not really framed around teachers. Instead, […]
A Book That Disappointed Me- Part 2
My second disappointing book experience this summer was… Okay, it wasn’t actually The Hunger Games, book 1. It wasn’t even Catching Fire, book 2. It was really…
A Book That Disappointed Me- Part 1
I had two experiences this summer where I was very disappointed by a book. The first was The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. I’d heard a lot of praise for this book and series from several people whose reading opinions I respect. It was one of the first books I purchased on my Kindle and […]
Bossypants
I can’t say I’ve been a particular fan of Tina Fey in the past, but I am after reading her memoir Bossypants. I read this one while we were on a cruise ship in Alaska, and I swear my husband got sick of me sitting on my deck chair or in our room, randomly exploding in […]