I picked up Stash by David Klein on a coworker’s recommendation. It quickly pulled me in and kept me turning pages, even though it’s not the sort of novel I tend to gravitate towards. Here’s the premise: Gwen, a 30-ish mother of two and wife of a successful pharmaceutical company marketing guy, is looking forward …
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Thoughts on “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” by Rebecca Skloot (Audiobook)
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot would not even have crossed my radar if it hadn’t made a solid appearance on the IndieBound best sellers list a while back. For one, the topic — HeLa cells and the woman they came from — was entirely unfamiliar to me. I’m also not likely …
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Thoughts on “My Fair Lazy” by Jen Lancaster
I have been meaning to read something by Jen Lancaster ever since her books were recommended to me by a coworker several years ago. I recently started reading her blog, Jennsylvania, starting with this post in which Jen Lancaster and Dave Barry interview each other. But it was this post — the part about the …
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Thoughts on “The Complete Persepolis” by Marjane Satrapi
I haven’t read many graphic novels. In fact, the only one I’ve read (aside from Persepolis, which we’ll get to in a moment) is At A Crossroads by Kate T. Williamson. It’s a genre in which I find it difficult to choose a book that really grabs me, so I’m really not sure what made …
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A Look at Book Trailers
A few weeks ago I posted the book trailer for Lane Smith’s It’s a Book. I guess they’ve been around for a while, but book trailers are pretty new to me. They are, as you might imagine, trailers put out by publishers to get people interested in soon-to-be-published books, in much the same way that …