nevertheless, she persisted
I have been a fan of Busy Philipps since Freaks and Geeks. No, I didn’t watch the show in 1999 (I was ten). But I did start watching it maybe six years after it aired. I’ve even owned the DVD by the time I graduated high school. And when I saw that Victoria Schwab enjoyed Busy Philipps’s […]
Read MoreUnless you’re new to this blog – if you are, welcome! – then you probably already know it’s a goal of mine to read at least one nonfiction book a month. I think it’s an extremely manageable goal, and I haven’t missed a single month in two years. Which means I’ve read some really great […]
Read MoreLolita has been on my TBR for years, but I haven’t read it because I know it’s going to be a tough read. And, honestly, I questioned whether it was something I really wanted to read, or if I just put it on my TBR because it’s famous. But when I learned that such a controversial […]
Read MoreIf you read the news, you have probably heard of Michelle McNamara’s I’ll Be Gone in the Dark. It is a true crime novel about the man known who started out as the East Area Rapist and became the serial killer McNamara dubbed the Golden State Killer. I am fascinated by true crime and serial killers, […]
Read MoreA few weeks ago, I fell into what I like to think of as a YouTube black hole. At some point, I came across the trailer for BlacKkKlansman (the movie title is slightly different) and was immediately sucked in. It’s such an interesting story, and completely true. When I found out it was a book, I immediately […]
Read MoreIt’s been a while since I’ve read a true-crime book (I think the last one was Helter Skelter). But since I’ve been binge-watching crime documentaries lately, I thought it was time. One that kept popping up was a fairly recent publication, The Fact of a Body by Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich. I was intrigued by the idea of combining true […]
Read MoreI spent twelve years in Catholic school, and during that time, I read countless versions of the little book of saints. For those of you unfamiliar with them, they are basically books filled with mini bios of various saints – usually focused on “fun facts” (like that Saint Clare is the patron saint of television). […]
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