It’s probably been a good month since I showed you some shelves I’ve been collecting. Pinterest has only fueled an obsession that’s been going for a long time, but oh man are there some beauties on there. Here’s what I’ve been drooling over lately.
Oh man do I love this. I can totally see this [...]
The Book: The Late Bloomer’s Revolution, by Amy Cohen
The Story: Amy is thirty years old and unmarried and has no children and she has been fired from her job and can’t ride a bike. She starts to think that she’s old and washed up and decides to better herself.
What I Thought: Here’s the thing: I [...]
So last month, I was proud of my TBR pile. I read a good chunk of books in December despite the holidays and ended up with a shelf looking like this:
All contained to one shelf, which is great. I really felt like I started the year in a pretty good place… the problem? I was [...]
Shaun sent this to me forever ago and I’m just now remembering to share it with you. So funny!
xkcd, I love you.
The Book: Thirteen Moons, by Charles Frazier
The Story: When he is young, Will Cooper is orphaned and sent to live with his aunt and uncle. They don’t have time money to take care of him so they get him hooked up with a job running a small trading post out in the middle of Indian [...]
1. Yesterday was my first day babysitting. The plan is that I’ll babysit Maria, my friend’s three month old baby, on Tuesdays & Thursdays 8:30-5:30. I was really excited when I offered to do it- it will be good practice and I’ll be bringing in a little bit of money each week- but as it [...]
The Book: The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane, by Catherine Howe
The Story: Connie is an academic who is challenged a bit by her academic advisor. He asks her to consider the possibility that the people accused in Salem in the 1690’s were actually just witches.
She kind of shoves his question to the back of [...]
Last year was the first time that I set real reading and blog related goals for myself. It was so fun to chip away at them and to see, in the end, that I really did accomplish them.
For the most part, my goals this year are fairly similar to my goals from last year, with [...]
You guys know that I love a good list, so after seeing so many great “Best of 2011″ lists, I couldn’t resist making one of my own. I wanted to wait until 2011 was officially over just in case I read a great one at the tail end, and here we are- 2012.
Without further [...]