I feel like I remember seeing this awhile back, but just recently stumbled upon it again.
My first thought is: What?! All the books will get wet. Then I remember that my husband has a towering stack of books in the bathroom anyway, just much more precariously placed than they would be here. I also am [...]
Maybe I’m just in a depressing mood. Both of the books that I’m currently reading are super depressing and while trying to decide on my flashback book this week, I realized that all of my options were fairly depressing too. Ah well. I guess it is the dead of winter. I’ll give you something cheerier [...]
The Book: Stiff: The Curious Life of Human Cadavers, by Mary Roach
The Story: The title kind of says it all. The author went on this big journey to find out what happened to bodies that were donated to science. She had kind of figured (and I had to) that most of them ended up in [...]
The Book: Possible Side Effects, by Augusten Burroughs
The Story: This is a book of essays by the same guy who wrote Running with Scissors. If you’ve read that, you have some idea of what to expect from him. If not, let me tell you.
This guy had a crazy (no seriously, his mom was in and [...]
The Book: Handle with Care, by Jodi Picoult
The Story: During an ultrasound at 27 weeks, Charlotte and her husband Sean are told that their baby has a disease that makes her bones very, very brittle. She already has seven broken bones and if she doesn’t die at birth will have many more. They are heartbroken, [...]
I remember my third grade teacher giving me a nice, shiny copy of this book and telling me that Matilda always reminded her of me. I was immediately sold because: 1- it seemed like a huge, fat book at the time, which I have always loved, and 2- I loved my third grade teacher, Miss [...]
The Book: Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality, by Donald Miller
The Story: Donald Miller grew up in a vaguely Christian environment, going to church and hearing the stories but never quite wrapping his head around it. This is the story of him fleshing it all out.
He kind of “comes to age” in Oregon [...]
The Book: Love and Other Impossible Pursuits, by Ayelet Waldman
The Story: Emilia lives in an amazing apartment with her amazing lawyer husband who was a married man when they met and fell in love. He chose her and they are pretty much living the dream. With just a couple of exceptions. Emilia doesn’t like her [...]
The Book: The Colorado Kid, by Stephen King
The Story: Like a lot of Stephen King books, this one takes place in Maine. There are these two older guys who work for the local paper and they have a young female intern. They are really kind of impressed with her, you can tell from the get [...]