So far, I’ve given my thoughts on a novel, two showbiz memoirs, a mystery, a history, and a YA series. I want to keep mixing it up, so tonight I’m going to write about women’s fiction, specifically the latest novel by Jennifer Weiner called Then Came You.
Blog Posts
Don’t Trip Over the Ottoman!
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 […]