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Notable Quotables from the Moleskine
I keep a bulletjournal, that’s kind of like a MASH-UP of my whole life. I do daily to-do lists which are less overwhelming than they sound. I write my favorite quotes from the books I’m reading,...
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Maira Kalman and Browned Photos | A Review
Maira Kalman & Daniel Handler & MoMA created these lovelies. Processed with VSCOcam with a5 preset My Mom always gets a little sad when we find old black & whites at the flea market....
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Notable Quotables | From the Moleskine
I’m still reading Half of a Yellow Sun because I’ve been tacking off to-do lists instead of actually reading. I plan on finishing it today, or AT MAX tomorrow. However, it’s so beautiful, that it’s...
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What’s Your Story? | A Review of My Name is Lucy Barton
The day I met my friend Ashley, she asked me “so what’s your story?” And really she wanted the story of how my boyfriend and I met so that she could squeal and tell me how she married her husband in...
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Notable Quotables | From the Moleskine
My brain, lately, has been almost too fried to read. I can’t exactly follow a plot without getting distracted by something else in the room. I’ve become an impatient reader. In this world where...
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Salt Water and Leftovers
It took me almost a month to read this book. The odd part, for me as a reader at least, was that I didn’t pick up other books during my breaks on this one. Island of a Thousand Mirrors is...
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We’re going to call this one, “A Big F You.”
Recently, I got an email to be a part of a new reviewing website that promoted themselves as being “similar to Netgalley.” Now, there’s a reason reviewers love Netgalley. It’s a database of up and...
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Why I Suck at NetGalley
Creating a bio on social media is one of the hardest things that I’ve ever done (I feel like this deserves #firstworldproblems). How do you compose everything about yourself in 140 characters?...
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Presidential Book Club [Reads Based on Candidates]
Earlier this morning, I took the Isidewith.com quiz because I thought I might use it in my classroom. I’m not sure how to infuse it just yet into my weekly lesson plan, but I did decide on a blog...
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Refurb |
As most of you know, I haven’t blogged in almost two months. I’ve been overwhelmed with work, moving, feeding the animals that we hoard in our home (3), and keeping up with day-to-day life. So, I’ve...
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I can’t breathe /
I believe we need to talk about race. My longest friend is a mixed race, homosexual man. This is if I reduce him to his census data. Although “mixed race” is a term we constructed to make sure the one...
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A Soundtrack for Beloved
Beloved By Toni Morrison I’ve been reading Beloved, which is my third Morrison book in a year. I’m mildly obsessed, if by mildly you mean I have a purple marker on the ready for every awkward star I...
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I’m ready to make the argument: Beyonce loves Beloved.
I want to construct the theory that Beyonce was directly referencing Beloved, the book by Toni Morrison and the haunting character reincarnated in the novel with her video “Formation.” Reasons for...
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When Discussing Diverse Books: Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
Guys, Twitter is kind of a terrifying, brilliant, and secret place. Sometimes, I sit there wondering if this is the only place most people have a voice, even journalists in today’s political and...
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No Goodreads Goal? BIG PROBLEM.
I get jealous sometimes of the people who can just steam through YA fiction all year, blog every two days, and create this center of magic. I am not that person. And this year without a Goodreads goal,...
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Raise Your Hand if You Need the Last Word.
“My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.” Over lunch the other day, a few of my girlfriends and I mused over how we grew up on The Princess Bride. I mean literally like an...
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Nobody Warned Me.
Halfway through this book, I tweeted about the nightmares it was causing me. And I’m not talking about Stephen King ghosts or monsters, but live human cruelty. They weren’t dreams like others I have...
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