Comfort Books
Some people have comfort food: chocolate chip cookies, macaroni and cheese, dark russet potato chips. When I get sad/ lonely/ depressed, or if I’m just in a darker place in my life, I turn to my...
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Chick Lit and Then Came You
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 fictio...
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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 v...
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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...
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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 ...
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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…...
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