It’s early summer in 1945 Barcelona when ten year-old Daniel visits the Cemetery of Forgotten Books for the first time. When a library disappears, or a book shop closes down, when a book is consigned to oblivion, those of us who know this place, its guardians, make sure that it gets here. In his place,…
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Review: Let’s Pretend This Never Happened
When you’re a kid, all you want to do is fit in. Nothing was worse than being embarrassed by a parent or yourself. Your goal was to have friends and avoid the insanity that is adolescence and young adulthood. Enter Jenny Lawson. Between the crippling anxiety disorder and a taxidermist father who says things like,…
Teaser Tuesdays: Hilarious
Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly event hosted by Should Be Reading. The rules are simple: Grab your current read Open to a random page Share two “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page (as well as the book’s title and author) Be careful not to include spoilers Every time I open Jenny Lawson’s memoir Let’s…
Review: Mistress of the Art of Death
(I read this book as part of the Pay it Sideways Challenge. Join in anytime, we’d love to have you!) It’s 1171 in Cambridge, England, and someone is killing children. An enraged Catholic population points to the Jews, those “child eaters,” and it is only through the patronage of King Henry II that most of…
Discussion: Sex at Dawn
**This review contains adult language and discusses sex and sexuality in frank terms. You know, in case my review of The Mistress Contract didn’t weird you out enough.** A little over a year ago I confessed to my obsession with books about sex. This doesn’t mean that I read a lot of what my mother-in-law…