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Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

August 7, 2019 by Rachel Leave a Comment

Daisy Jones & the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid Finished on May 2, took 9 days to read 3 stars on Goodreads Genre: Fiction Rating 2/3 Fiction There were so many reasons why I was excited to read Daisy Jones & the Six. Several of my favorite blogs, podcasts, and friends recommended this book. I loved the author’s earlier novel: The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo. And most notably, earlier this year Daisy Jones got the ultimate bump when it was featured by Reese Witherspoon’s […]

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The Scar Boys by Vlahos, Len

June 14, 2019 by cosbrarian Leave a Comment

As a kid, Harry was tied to a tree by bullies and abandoned there when a storm came in. When the storm was over, the tree was halved and incinerated by a lightening bolt and Harry was left alive but irrevocably scarred both outside and in. Most of his life, it was hard to maintain friendships, but when enigmatic and handsome Johnny takes a shine to him and suggests they start a band, things begin to turn around. The Scar Boys start out small, but […]

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Daisy Jones & the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

June 2, 2019 by Rachel 1 Comment

Daisy Jones & the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid Finished on May 2, took 9 days to read 3 stars on Goodreads Genre: Fiction Rating 2/3 Fiction There were so many reasons why I was excited to read Daisy Jones & the Six. Several of my favorite blogs, podcasts, and friends recommended this book. I loved the author’s earlier novel The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo. And most notably, earlier this year Daisy Jones got the ultimate bump when it got picked by Reese Witherspoon’s […]

Semisonic’s drummer on life in the ’90s music biz

October 17, 2016 by Halbs Leave a Comment

Semisonic’s Feeling Strangely Fine came out in 1998. I was a slouchy eighth-grader who was battling severe nodular acne, braces, and a wildly inappropriate volume of palm sweat. Lucky for me, I also played guitar. Conversations with anyone were hard, but rocking out was natural. Music is where I felt comfortable and found myself. It’s how I made friends and a life. In So You Wanna Be a Rock & Roll Star, Semisonic drummer Jake Slichter tells a similar story. He wasn’t a particularly cool teenager, but he […]

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