December 2009
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Best Wallpapers of 2009 -- National Geographic →
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Lucky by Alice Sebold
I have read both of Sebold’s novels, The Lovely Bones and The Almost Moon, but enjoyed this memoir more. Sebold really hits her stride with a sense of powerful honesty as she shares the truth of her rape, regardless of how little people seemed to understand some of her actions. She describes her internal transformation because of the rape, what she calls her “death and...
“Writers fight a myriad of internal battles that are difficult to translate to...”
– Gail Sher, One Continuous Mistake
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WatchMark and I went to a Christmas lights show tonight — it was pretty fantastic.
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Book Review: House of Leaves
I just finished House of Leaves by Mark Danielewski. In the author’s own words, the novel is about “…a family that moves into a small house in Virginia where they discover that the inside is bigger than the outside, by only a quarter of an inch, and yet that discrepancy begins to threaten everything in their family: the relationship between the man and the woman, between the...
"I really LIKE you."
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allthingsalishan:
“I think we have a wonderful marriage. I love my husband. He’s my best friend. But I always like to talk honestly about it because I think about other young couples who think there are no struggles to get here. And there are. That’s part of it. The message is - work through the struggles. Start out with somebody that you respect and that you trust so that...
Book lovers:
What is a book I absolutely must read over winter break?
I'm pretty sure I aced my College Algebra final.
It was easier than all of the tests/quizzes/homework.
I also got $50 back for books.
I only have one class on Friday morning left, and then the semester is over, and I am so excited for the next one.
And also for the month and a half that I have off, which I will use to read the massive pile of books gathering dust on my shelf.
