“Our romantic options are unprecedented and our tools to sort and communicate with them are staggering. And that raises the question: Why are so many people frustrated?” I hadn’t planned on reading Modern Romance, I’m married, but CBR had numerous enthusiastic reviews so I decided to find out what all the fuss was about. I’d be interested to see what Aziz would have to say about my particular romantic path. I met my husband in 8th grade (he gave me a Lifehouse CD for my […]
Rub-a-dub-dub 9 Men in a Tub
Amazon offered me a trial subscription to Audible for being a Prime member, despite my awkward audio experience with Fates & Furies I figured I’d give it a try. I downloaded The Boys in the Boat, which has been on my to read list since I read Unbroken for CBR6, because it seemed to be the most bang for my complimentary buck. It’s read by Edward Herrmann and I felt confident that Richard Gilmore wouldn’t be dramatically reading sex scenes to me on my commute […]
“I learned long ago that loss is not only probably but inevitable.”
Orphan Train tells two stories set in two time lines. In 1929, we have nine year old Irish immigrant Niamh whose parents and siblings die in a horrific accident; in present day, we have seventeen year old foster child, Molly, who has struggled to fit in with her recent set of foster parents. Niamh is put on a train by the Children’s Aid Society and sent across the United States to find a family to adopt her. Unfortunately, the adoptions are handled more like cattle […]
Melissa Explains It All
I’m a child of the nineties and Melissa Joan Hart’s feisty female characters played an intricate role in my formative years. I remember watching Clarissa Explains It All (along with Hey Dude, Good-burger and All That) on Nickelodeon as a kid, although it must have been reruns since Clarissa‘s original run was over before I turned six. My favorite Melissa Joan Hart role had to be Sabrina the Teenage Witch, which I watched when it was in its heyday but also seemed to play in constant […]
Why didn’t I like this one more?
Simon vs the Homo Sapiens Agenda is about sixteen-year old Simon Spier- a closeted drama kid living outside of Atlanta. Simon has been flirtatiously corresponding with another closeted classmate through anonymous emails for months when he carelessly leaves his private email account logged in at school. Another student, Martin, finds the clandestine correspondence and screen caps the scandalous conversation to blackmail Simon into giving him an “in” with Simon’s friend, Abby. “People really are like house with vast rooms and tiny windows. And maybe it’s […]
You Like Ghost Stories?
Thanks to George R.R. Martin, who asked me to write him a story. -acknowledgements Gillian Flynn wrote The Grownup as a short story to be published in George R.R. Martin’s Rouges anthology and it was later released as a stand alone novella. The story starts out as standard Gillian Flynn; an unnamed female narrator, who has a twisty past, finds herself stuck in the middle of a chilling battle between a mother, her step-son and a mysterious house. The Grownup could have benefits from another […]
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