More YA! Are you sick of me yet? I have 2 more reviews to post after this and then I promise to leave y’all alone. This is what happens when I bring six books on vacation and read every one of them… “To me, religion is the Walmart of spirituality … I mean it’s prepackaged. Lowest common denominator. People just have to follow the present motions and rituals and rules. The don’t have to think about how the words reconcile with their own hearts. Their […]
I rarely rate celeb memoirs so badly, but wow…this wasn’t good
Celebrity memoirs are also usually very helpful to keep my mind off turbulence, but unfortunately this one sort of… sucks. So, Clinton Kelly is the guy from What Not to Wear. He’s had a few other reality TV shows, too, but I haven’t heard of any of them. You may have. This may be one of the least interesting celebrity memoirs I’ve ever read. He basically picked like 10 stories from his life and wrote about them without connecting them in anyway or making them […]
Ignore the terrible puns — it’s really pretty good
More YA! Can you tell I recently went on a trip? YA gets me through the airport and onto the plane without losing my mind. Thank you, YA! This was a sweet and funny story about a girl who has literally done nothing but be a ballerina her entire life. Now, just short of graduating high school, she has discovered that it’s not something she can do for the rest of her life. In a panic over a ballet (and also a boy, because this is […]
“I needed to see more from my movies than the extremely tragic black woman, or the magic helpless Negro, or the many black men in dresses.”
Okay so I had no idea who Issa Rae was before starting this book, but I saw it on Overdrive as part of the Women’s History Month collection and absolutely loved the cover, so here we are! I’m glad I picked it up because it was really funny and well written and I’m glad to know who she is now. “Girls, New Girl, 2 Broke Girls. What do they all have in common? The universal gender classification, “girl,” is white. In all three of these […]
“We’re all weird and damaged in our own way. You’re not the only one.”
Okay so this book was really good, as many of y’all have already noted on CBR. I won’t be saying anything new here — just adding to the recommendations! “Dear friend, You are not a freak. You are wanted. You are necessary. You are the only you there is. Don’t be afraid to leave the castle. It’s a great big world out there. Love, a fellow reader” It’s the story of Libby Strout, a girl who was once called “America’s Fattest Teen”. She gained a […]
From Ada Lovelace to Marie Curie to Joan Jett
I borrowed this book from Overdrive as a Women’s History Month recommendation by my local library. It’s probably aimed at a slightly younger audience than myself, but I enjoyed reading it and found the illustrations just adorable. The author spends 2-3 pages on each of 100 women throughout history — their triumphs and failures, and why we should remember them. I would say I had heard of about two-thirds of them, which was neat because it’s always pleasing to find out that there are so […]
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