In my family, we use the term “bear” to denote a particular kind of person. Not everyone is a bear, though it’s certainly not something to engender jealousy. A bear is born a bear. Bears are dear people, sensitive souls, kind humans bordering on empaths. Bears are loyal, if not perhaps a little clannish at times. Bears may seem fierce in their daily lives, intimidating to some due to their great-big hearts which drive their great-big goals. But underneath the teeth and fluff lies an […]
Love Until Later
Sometimes, after a particularly disappointing book, you need to bring in a ringer. Why Girls are Weird is Pamela Ribon’s first novel which was inspired by her early 2000s blog Pamie.com. It is the story of Anna Koval who creates the online persona Anna K to learn HTML and create a collection of funny stories for a friend’s birthday gift. She sprinkles fact and fiction throughout her website, her most deceitful lie is telling her public she is still in a relationship with her ex-boyfriend […]
Confessions of a Teenage Stalker
I don’t follow Pamie.com like I used to, my sister usually forwards me the highlights, but she was one of the first blogs I read way back when. I’ve read all her novels and was pretty excited when her first memoir was announced. Notes to Boys focuses on Pam’s raging hormones while she goes through adolescence in small town Texas. Little Pam (as she affectionately refers to her younger self) is intense. I cannot believe she published some of these letters and poems because they […]