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Sweatpants & Coffee 9 Jul 2013 | 09:55 pm
I am a web designer by trade, in addition to being an extremely lazy (of late) book blogger. I jumped at the opportunity to build Sweatpants & Coffee because I believe in their mission - to inspire an...
Forged In Grace 30 Mar 2013 | 08:41 pm
Grace can heal the flesh of others, but can she heal her own? Can she soothe the darkness which threatens to eat Marly from the inside out, or will it consume Grace with it? Continue reading →
Less Than Zero 28 Dec 2012 | 11:12 pm
When Less Than Zero came out, it was held out by the baby boomers as what was "wrong with Generation X", and Generation X decried it as "promoting ugly stereotypes." Perhaps most disturbing (to me), E...
Lucky 27 Sep 2011 | 10:17 am
Best-known as the author of The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold's "Lucky" is her memoir of having been raped as a freshman in college, and the effect that it had on her life. Continue reading →
Mermaids in the Basement 26 Sep 2011 | 11:24 am
Renata DeChavannes is a slightly overweight screenwriter who has just seen her superstar long-term boyfriend splashed on the cover of a tabloid with a hot young starlet wrapped around him. Furious, un...
Beloved 19 Jul 2011 | 07:59 am
"She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your min...
Trainspotting 18 Jun 2011 | 10:28 am
Where Welsh really shines as a writer is that despite the fact that every single character is either a junkie, a criminal, an asshole, or some combination of the three, you can't help but sort of like...
The Help 24 May 2011 | 06:49 am
One thing that is pointed out is how susceptible children are to their parents' attitudes - the white children in the novel grow up adoring their nannies, and yet, as soon as they are old enough to un...
The Year of Living Biblically 16 May 2011 | 11:14 am
One passage which stuck with me was when he questions why God would need to be praised all of the time - if he is the greatest being in the universe, surely he doesn't have a self-esteem problem which...
Water for Elephants 22 Apr 2011 | 09:59 am
This story begins in the mind of ninety (or ninety-three, he can't remember which) year-old Jacob Jankowski. Not-quite-forgotten in a nursing home, he contents himself with harassing his nurses and co...
