I would be more embarrassed about how much I’ve loved these books, if I wasn’t so consumingly in love with them. I should be at least a little embarrassed because I’m definitely not the key demographic they’re written for. The Twilight series are young adult books written about high schoolers, vampires, and werewolves. Yikes. I’m […]
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Water for Elephants
This book came highly recommended, so I was genuinely surprised that I spent the majority of it waiting for it to improve. About two-thirds of the way in, I realized that this was as good as it was going to get, and that even if the ending was spectacularly awesome and twisty, that didn’t take […]
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Snow Falling on Cedars
I wasn’t sure what to expect from this book. I knew they’d made a movie about it with Ethan Hawke, and I knew the movie had something to do with Japanese-Americans during WWII, but that was about it. The book jumps around in time (which seems to be a common theme of the books I’ve […]
Read more...ice storms make me bitchy, evidently
Saturday night and Madison is quickly being covered in ice. I was supposed to work today— first at WARF and then later tonight at RENT at the Overture Center, but it’s pretty hazardous outside. I went into work this morning before the snow started, and within 2 hours about an inch and a half of […]
Read more...da booty (and if you got money you shakin it)
This marks the first weekend of major book buying. It was the Friends of the Public Library sale and I got a ton of books (and one movie!) for $8. I had to hold back a bit, though, because next weekend is the Friends of UW Libraries sale, and I’m’a throw down for that one […]
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