Pippa is engaged to be married to a decent, but boring and fairly unintelligent, uninspired fellow. Pippa, on the other hand, is scientifically minded and well-read. She is also not very socially adept and worries about the marriage and especially about the wedding night. Which is why she tries to get Cross, a notorious rake, to educate her about sex–although only through lecture and not the dirty deed itself. But Cross refuses because Pippa is an innocent. Plus, she’s his friend’s/business partner’s sister-in-law so […]
“What’s so wrong with me?” she whispered.
Michael Bourne is a Lord who lost everything on a single wager at the age of twenty-one except for his title. For ten years he has schemed and dreamed of regaining his childhood lands and getting revenge on the man who pushed him to bet it all and took it all away. When he learns that the piece of land he wants the most has changed hands and is now attached as a dowry to a woman he knew as a young girl, he is […]
“When the end came, it was beautiful.”
“When you got right down to it, humans were still just curious monkeys. They still had to poke everything they found with a stick to see what it did.” I have to admit that I get intimidated by science fiction. I’m worried that it will go over my head and I won’t get it. Not that I don’t enjoy sci fi–I do! But I’ve always leaned more in the direction of fantasy, feeling that sci fi was outside of my comfort zone. I’ve been slowly […]
“I am going to be furiously happy, out of sheer spite.”
For anyone not familiar with Jenny Lawson, she is an internet blogger who goes by “The Bloggess.” She’s known for getting a picture of Wil Wheaton collating paper, surprising her husband with a giant metal chicken named Beyonce, and for talking about her struggles with depression and anxiety. I credit her with one of my favorite quotes, “depression lies.” Furiously Happy is Jenny Lawson’s second book, giving readers a glimpse into her life as a blogger with often crippling anxiety and depression. And it is […]