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Book Review: The Piper’s Son
“I know this sounds cruel…but grieving people are selfish. They won’t let you comfort them and they say you don’t understand and they make you feel useless when all your life...
Book Review: Saving Francesca
I think I’m a bit in love with these girls. They make me feel giddy. Like I haven’t a care in the world. Like I’m fearless. I wish there were a way to talk about a book I love in...
Book Review: Beauty Queens
“That explains the budget weave,” Miss Ohio said. I could have posted the more thoughtful and poetic quote from Libba Bray's Beauty Queens, but I decided to go with the one that...
Book Review: Please Ignore Vera Dietz by A.S. King
Let me tell you—if you think your best friend dying is a bitch, try your best friend dying after he screws you over. It’s a bitch like no other. As the quote above indicates,...
Mini Book Reviews: Summer Fiction
Parents are too easily frightened by the world their children live in. We have to protect them from harm, keep them safe as long as we can, no matter how we feel about them....
Mini Reviews: Summer Audiobooks
So, yes, my life has been chaotic and busy, mostly due to all of the teaching and grading I've done this summer. Oh, and the moving. So add it all together, and that left me with...
Book Review: The List
The list is refreshing in that sense. It can reduce an entire female population down to three clear-cut groups. Prettiest. Ugliest. And everyone else. As the quote above says,...
Book Review: The Miseducation of Cameron Post
The Miseducation of Cameron Post by Emily Danforth is the story of a girl who lives in a small town in Montana during the 1990s. She’s being raised by her aunt and grandmother...
Book Review: The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success
So I am pretty sure this book just changed my life. That's a weird statement to make, especially when I found most of the The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success by Deepak Chopra to...