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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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...
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...
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...
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...
If you don’t know Melissa from Scuffed Slippers and Wormy Books (on Twitter as @balletbookworm), you really should. She writes great reviews and frequently shares stories from her life as a bookseller in Iowa (working for the same company I used to...
So there’s this big game on TV today here in the U.S. today. You might have heard of it. I think it involves football and a much-contested catchphrase (Who Dat?), but it’s hard to tell. I mean, they’ve only been talking about it FOR THE LAST TWO...
Just in case you weren’t sure about the level of nerdery happening at Chez Book Lady, I give you last night’s bedtime conversation, complete with the revelation of my husband’s far-from-original BIG DREAM. Clearly, the man is delusional and confused...
So, that #fountainreads thing I’ve been talking about? I want to talk about some more.
Why?
Because Style Weekly (“Richmond’s alternative for news, arts, culture, and opinions”) is talking about it in a piece featuring Fountain Bookstore and me!...
One month into this year of reading deliberately, and I think I’m doing pretty well so far. Every book I read this month was a book I really wanted to read. Some were review copies, some were rescued from extended stays on the TBR pile, and all were...
