Sabrina Benaim’s Depression & Other Magic Tricks boasts the same passion as her spoken word pieces, but sometimes lacks the same finesse.
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Book Thoughts: Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstance
Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstance is best described as warm, though it deals with the frightening, devastating parts of life as well as the good parts.
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Book Thoughts: The 100 Series
Diving into The 100 series by Kass Morgan was a weird adventure. I’ve watched the CW show for three years, so I’ve had plenty of time to form strong opinions about the characters and story progression, as well as what the writers are doing well and what they’re doing really poorly. I recently started writing about it…
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This Is Not Writing: The Meta Cottage Podcast
In general, I feel that I express myself best in writing. That may be because I’ve always had a passion for reading, or because I watched too much “Gilmore Girls” as a kid, or because I took all my aspirations of becoming a writer and funneled them into a journalism degree in college. Whatever…
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Book Goals: Go to the library!
Two months into 2017, my goal to #ReadWomen2017 is still going strong! In February, I’ve only read four books (one of which was a graphic novel) but all four were written by women and I took away something different from each. I had a lot of fun reading this month, which felt really good, and I…
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Book goals: #ReadWomen2017
For the last two years, I’ve read a pretty pitiful number of books: 32 in 2015 and 30 in 2016. Yikes. According to my past GoodReads challenges, 2012 is the year to beat. That year (the year I graduated college, incidentally), I read 71 books! That’s more than what I’ve read in the last two…
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In 2016…
I recently did a Tumblr meme where I shared six of my best selfies from 2016 and realized, as I searched through my photos, that although this year has been honestly horrible in a lot of Big Picture ways, on a personal level, it’s been pretty fantastic. I’ve done so much in 2016, most of it…
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Book Thoughts: When We Collided
For the first time in a while, I’m experiencing a pretty severe book hangover. I spent a good chunk of yesterday (National Read a Book Day!) blasting through Emery Lord’s When We Collided, entranced by the writing, the characters, and the pacing of the story. Then, when it was over, I found myself in the kind…
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Book Thoughts: The Paper Magician Trilogy
One of the best things I’ve ever done is sign up for GoodReads Deals. Whenever an ebook of something I’ve put on my to-read list goes on sale, GoodReads will email me and let me know. It’s probably a little dangerous, given how many books I own (in physical and electronic form) that I haven’t read,…
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Book Thoughts: How to Be Alive
At the beginning of the month, after responding favorably to an email asking whether I’d like an advanced copy of Colin Beavan’s new book, I received a paperback of How to Be Alive: A Guide to the Kind of Happiness That Helps the World. Prior to receiving the aforementioned email, I had never heard of Beavan…
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