When I was a little girl, my mom bought me a book about King Tutankhamen. It had beautiful glossy photos, and I was fascinated by the short life of the boy king…and the maybe-supernaturally shortened lives of the people who excavated his tomb and awakened the mummy’s curse. From there sparked a love of ancient Egypt, peaking when I was absolutely nerdy enough at age 9 or so to write a letter to the editor to correct one of the Detroit papers when they ran […]
It’s good to be king
“I have touched the highest point of all my greatness; And from that full meridian of my glory I haste now to my setting: I shall fall Like a bright exhalation in the evening, And no man see me more.” Oh boy do I need to step up my review writing game, between a ridiculously long illness and studying for the USMLE exams, I haven’t had a lot of spare time to write. To compound the problem, I was tackling a mammoth of a book, […]
Dr. Mütter would have loved this guy
Sometimes I’ll sort my Goodreads to-be-read list by oldest first (whatever I added longest ago), and order the first five books from my library, just to clear them off my never-ending list. Oftentimes these books have been on there for a while, which leads to me borrowing books that I added ages ago (November 2013 in this case), with no recollection of how I even originally heard about them. This week, my random borrowing led to one of the weirdest books I’ve read — The Resurrectionist: The […]
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 […]
Like texts from your best friend.
Shonda Rhimes’ sister told her that she never said yes to anything, and after some reflection, she realized it was true. So she made a resolution to spend a year saying yes to anything – everything – that came her way, and change her life into something that would make her happier. It’s challenging when her very first “yes” is to give a commencement speech at Dartmouth, and her second is to appear on Jimmy Kimmel Live (if you’re not aware, Rhimes is the creator of […]
“You’ll Change Your Mind.”
I could not be more different from Jen Kirkman — I got married young, finished college, had a couple of kids and go to work every day at an office (albeit one where I wear blue jeans and sneakers..but still!). Jen does stand up and works for Chelsea Lately and knows that comedy is the job for her. She also knows that she absolutely, positively does not want kids — a position that she defends in this book (and apparently, to strangers who think they know better) with […]
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