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I'm a twenty-something booklover who reads and reviews literary fiction, memoirs, and an eclectic smattering of nonfiction. Personally and professionally, I'm on a mission to keep the written word alive in our increasingly digital culture.
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Book Review: Manhood for Amateurs by Michael Chabon

Oct 9, 2009
Recently published October 6, 2009 by HarperCollins A women’s studies professor I had in graduate school once suggested that the real problems of sexism were not caused so much by the ways we...

Book Review: This Will Kill You by H.P. Newquist and Rich Maloof

Jul 22, 2009
Published May 2009 by St. Martin’s Griffin. H.P. Newquist and Rich Maloof don’t mess around.   We’re not here to talk about the metaphysics of dying or to ponder the mysteries of the Great Beyond. We’re here to talk about...

Book Review: Purge by Nicole Johns

Jun 29, 2009
Published April 2009 by Seal Press I finished this book almost two weeks ago, and it has taken me that long to wrap my head around writing this review. Purge:Rehab Diaries is Nicole John’s multi-format memoir of living with and seeking treatme...

Book Review: Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford

Jan 25, 2009
Set for publication January 27th, 2009 from Ballantine Books When we first meet Henry Lee, it is 1986, and he is walking past the Panama Hotel in Seattle, which has been boarded up since World War II. Henry notices a crowd gathering on the steps of t...

Book Review: Laid edited by Shannon T. Boodram

Nov 4, 2009
Published October 2009 by Seal Press Canadian sex educator Shannon T. Boodram thought it was about time that someone let young people speak for themselves and tell the truth about their sexual experiences. In Laid: Young People’s Experiences with Sex...

October Reading Wrap-Up

Nov 3, 2009
While October wasn’t my slowest reading month ever, it was perhaps my slowest reviewing month. I got the flu, and I changed jobs, and life was just generally kind of crazy. So here’s what I read, with cover art linked to my reviews of the first four....

Book Club Breakdown: Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen by Susan Gregg Gilmore

Nov 2, 2009
My book club read this as our September selection. Our meeting was cancelled, so we discussed it last week in conjunction with our October book. Here’s what went down. What it’s about: A description from the publisher: Sometimes you have to return...

A Book Lady's Blog Exclusive: Audrey Niffenegger reads from HER FEARFUL SYMMETRY

Oct 31, 2009
The good folks who represent Audrey Niffenegger at Regal Literary love bloggers, and I think they just might have appreciated my extensive gushing about Her Fearful Symmetry. So they’ve offered me an exclusive of this video of Audrey reading a chapter...

Wanted: Audio Book Recommendations

Oct 27, 2009
So, I started a new job last week, and one of the beautiful perks is that I work out of a home office. Which means that Mondays and many mornings, I can pretty much slog up the stairs in my PJs, sit my iPod in its little speaker thingy, and get down...

Book Review: Manhood for Amateurs by Michael Chabon



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