Posts Tagged ‘reading’

Readables

I haven’t been reading a ton lately, but I’ve finished a few books I’d like to talk about. 1. The Repossession Mambo, by Eric Garcia. I really enjoyed the film based on this book. I’m not normally a fan of stylized viscera but something about Jude Law can really change a girl’s mind. The book [...]

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Lovely Bones: Book Review

I keep seeing previews for the film version of this book. As I had borrowed it from a friend recently, I thought I might read it and see the film. SPOILER ALERT: I will most likely talk about plot points that you might not want to know about if you haven’t read the book. I [...]

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So Many Books…Only Two Eyes

     Most of my friends have a stack of books somewhere, unread, full of interesting things, waiting to be cracked. I am notorious for this now that I have discovered a half price bookstore mere minutes from my home. Everything’s half off! Or used! Why not spend $15 and get five books?      The problem [...]

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Writing Update

     The Writing Spider hasn’t written much of late, has she?      I have been sickish/busy/burned out from my job/apathetic/finishing reading a great book mostly the last few weeks. I started to write a post about my 10 year college reunion a few weeks ago and I still have the draft rolling around. Plus I started work on a [...]

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Baaad English Major

   Everybody knows that English major type who can quote famous authors verbatim. At the end of the night your buddy, who has been drunkenly hitting on all the women at the party and bragging about his novel that’s about to be published, turns to the crowd and charmingly slurs, “If we shadows have offended, [...]

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Dear Power Lines Guys…

    Nobody could have foreseen it and it couldn’t have been stopped. This is what happened in the week after, to me:   Over the last week, I have consumed seventeen fast food meals, six sit-down-dinner meals, and several trips to Starbucks for coffee, tea and carbs. That is more fast food in one week than [...]

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