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Bossypants
Honesty time: I have a really hard time getting into books. I’ve always preferred magazines, or, now that I’m a grad student, I’ve completely nerded out and moved into scholarly journals. I love The...
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Holiday Reading: The Hunger Games
My post tonight combines Abbie and Jeannette’s commentaries on their Holiday traditions and Sarah’s post on being kind to yourself. Although my family has a variety of Christmas traditions, such as (in...
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Paying It Forward: The World Needs a Little More Kindness
Note: This is part one of a double post (the posts, though, are unrelated and do not have to be read in order). ——————————————————————————————————————————- I wasn’t planning on writing two posts...
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Fighting Imposter Syndrome and “Knowing Your Value”
As Abbie and Jeannette have stated in their posts this we Dames have been on a little bit of a hiatus. For myself, life has simply been unbelievably busy. I’m happy to report that my M.A. thesis is...
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Nicholas Sparks is Pretty Much the Worst: My Most Unpopular Opinion as a Woman
I’ve made it no secret that I really just can’t get into reading books. I prefer to stick to my liberal-leaning music and entertainment magazines (to which I really do need to renew my subscription…)...
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“Learning Not to Hope For What I Can’t Control”: Some Novel Melodrama
Jeannette’s most recent post is very fitting for my own life right now. The calm that came after graduation quickly devolved into a kind of chaos that is coming from all directions and exists at the...
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Growing Up at the End of the World: Karen Thompson Walker’s “The Age of...
Note: This post is a review of Karen Thompson Walker’s The Age of Miracles and contains plot spoilers. —————————————————————– Life is hard, there’s no doubt about it. But, most of us are able, at least...
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On Reading “The River of No Return” by Bee Ridgway
Some of my friends and family make fun of me for having a Twitter account. “What do you tweet about?,” they ask. Or they might say, “I tried Twitter, I thought it was stupid.” If you really stop and...
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Why Imperfection and Silliness Are Valuable or What I Learned from Reading...
I’ve noticed a trend in my reading life. There are all these books that I discount when I first hear about them, thinking that I have no interest in reading them and that I never will. Often, this rule...
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Spring 2014 Reading Challenge
Everyone loves a challenge. Because when you meet that challenge, or at least attempt to meet it, you often end up with a feeling of accomplishment. You also almost always end up learning something in...
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