Musings

I like this picture of a kitten (by eva101 via flickr) because the cat has crazy eyes, and this post is all about feeling a little crazy and overwhelmed. Since last Monday I’ve been filling in for our online reporter at work, which has involved going into work at 5:00 a.m. and writing a lot [...]

My sister Jenny and I have vastly different taste in books. Because I was an English major in college and therefore a bit of a literary snob, I sometimes take a little bit too much perverse pleasure in judging teasing her about her book tastes. She loves to read teen chick lit books like Meg [...]

For the last several months I’ve asked you guys to vote on one book that I should be sure to finish during that month. After three times I guess this is sort of a feature? I like doing it because it inspires me to pick books that I’ve had on my shelf for awhile and [...]

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins finally came from the library! After reading a good review of this book from pretty much every blogger in my reader, I cannot wait to start. The problem is that Boyfriend and I are going to Six Flags Great America today for his birthday, and I’m stuck driving.  I’m [...]

Hooray! Today is my one year blogoversary! I wrote my Welcome Post for this blog on May 10, 2008, about a week before my college graduation, which doesn’t seem like it was a full year ago. In one year, I’ve written 254 posts. I’ve read 77 books, but not written quite that many reviews. I’ve [...]

In March and April, I asked my blog readers to vote on one book that I should be sure to finish during that month. I had fun with both of them, since they inspired me to read books that I have on my TBR list but keep putting off. The previous books readers helped select [...]

For someone who constantly alleged she had “no time for reading” and was “always busy” I sure found time to read a lot of books in April! This month I managed to finish seven books, the most I’ve read in any month this year, for a total of 1,954 pages. That makes my year-to-date total [...]

I’m a big fan of essays and memoirs, but I know a lot of people who don’t like them because they think an essay or memoir is self-absorbed. While sometimes this is true, the best personal essays that I’ve read end up not being self-absorbed at all.  And it’s these fantastic essays that leave me [...]

I did a poll about a month ago asking for suggestions on what I read. I got a lot of awesome comments and was inspired to finish Lipstick Jihad by Azadeh Moaveni, High Fidelity by Nick Hornby, and I Was Told There’d Be Cake by Sloane Crosley (review in progress). They were all awesome, so [...]