A few years ago I raved about Jenny Lawson’s humorous memoir debut Let’s Pretend This Never Happened, a book about Lawson’s eccentric upbringing in rural Texas and how she became the Bloggess we know her as today. Lawson’s dark and quirky sense of humor and laugh out loud stories resonated with readers and her book […]
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For a Comic-Con nerd such as myself I know surprisingly little about the “Queen of the Geeks” Internet personality Felicia Day. I’ve seen Day on Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog and on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, but I’ve never seen an episode of her web series The Guild (or Supernatural for that matter — I’ve lost […]
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In The Real Doctor Will See You Shortly, Dr. Matt McCarthy recounts his first year as an intern at Columbia University Medical Center. Is his first-year practicing medicine similar to that of the doctor’s we see in TV dramas? Yes and no, but for the most part these real-life interns are too busy for on-call […]
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The band Sonic Youth formed in 1981 in New York, and they first got my attention with their 1988 breakthrough album Daydream Nation. Two of the founding members of Sonic Youth, Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon, were a couple and were married for 27 years. Fans were shocked when the indie rock Super Couple announced […]
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By total coincidence this turned into non-fiction week here on the blog! This is my fourth non-fiction review of the week- how unusual for me! I would say don’t get too used to it, but I still want to read Bad Feminist and Yes Please so I guess this trend will continue for a bit. […]
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I’m so pleased to kick off the blog tour for A Breast Cancer Alphabet. In this easy to read guide, author Madhulika Sikka draws on her own experiences with breast cancer to share with those that are “new members of the club you did not want to join.” As you may or may not know, […]
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