The other day, when I was talking to my hippie-dippy earth-mother anthropologist friend, I told her I’d never expected to become a teacher. She smirked at me and told me it was a great fit: “You like rules and you like stability.” She’s also told me I had a “grown up house” (hers, by her own admission, is a pigsty) and I, in turn, am horrified by her happy-go-lucky attitude of quitting jobs if she doesn’t like them. She lives with her Aryan Jesus-lookalike of […]
Like Gone Girl’s Twin, but Slightly Better
Rachel rides the train every day. And every day she passes the same homes and people going through their same routines. Until one day, something changes. What Rachel sees alters the trajectory of her life that is already complicated with a divorce and alcoholism. Anna is a stay at home mom. Although her life seems simple, she lives in the shadow of her husband’s ex-wife, struggling with raising her two-year old daughter and keeping her sanity while trying to maintain a happy marriage. Megan shouldn’t […]
Funny History
This book is filled with comic strips that make fun of history and literature, LOVED IT. Are you a snarky nerd? I’m betting you will love it too. Comparing beat poets to hipsters? Dude watching with the Brontes? Jules Verne has a crush on EA Poe, Wonder Woman is a little jaded, spam pigeons, the Church of Bros, 15th Century Peasant Romance comics, Austen mania, Sirens with duck-face. Do yourself a favor and grab a copy of this book. I finished it in one sitting, […]
Love Will Tear Us Apart Again
My fiancee mocks me for being “emo” because I like wistful love songs about desperately falling in love or pining for someone who is imperfect to everyone else while being your everything. My iPod sings with the nerdish lovesongs of melancholy sadbastards. So Eleanor & Park is my everything. It’s so heartbreakingly, soul-crushingly well constructed. Everything that could even possibly be a huge cliche gets dodged like landmines, but the shrapnel of the truth is still embedded deep and painfully in every character. It’s a […]