BOOKS
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Book Review: Insatiable
Author: Meg Cabot
Pages: 454
Date Started: 8/15/10
Date Finished: 8/17/10
Simple Summary: Meena hates the whole vampire hype, but falls for the visiting prince vamp, Lucien. Lucien is there because there has been a killing spree of human girls all over th...more
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Oh Yes, I’m Tipsy
Yup, I’ll admit it. I’m slightly hungover. Well, more like I want water NOW and could use some more hours of sleep. But then again, I always want sleep. Take from that what you will.
With everything going on, I haven’t had time or felt like a liqui...more
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Book Review: 13 Little Blue Envelopes
Author: Maureen Johnson
Pages: 368
Date Started: 8/1/10
Date Finished: 8/4/10
Simple Summary: Dead Aunt Meg sends shy Ginny gallivanting across Europe through thirteen little blue envelopes. Awkward flirting and adventures may occur.
Rating: ★★★★...more
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Musical Mondays: Insatiable Banshees
This is a weekly installment I’ll be doing, well, weekly! It’s easy and fun, and works like so:
Pick the book you’re currently reading, then think of a song or album that best matches the book. Even hitting shuffle on your musical player will do th...more
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Book Review: Olivia Joules & the Overactive Imagination
Author: Helen Fielding
Pages: 305
Date Started: 7/27/10
Date Finished: 7/29/10
Simple Summary: Olivia Joules is a journalist. She thinks that one of the men who is courting her might be al-Qaeda and investigates.
Rating: ★★★★☆ My Review: With...more
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A Letter to My Life
To the various things in my life that I would like to bitch about — because I can.
To my first condo: I cannot wait to move into you, I really can’t, but there are many things to do and buy and I lack either the knowledge or the time to accomplish e...more
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Letters to Loved Ones Month
I know, I know, you’re probably cocking your head to one side right about now and scrunching your face in confusion. Why in August — not February — am I choosing this theme, you might ask? Well, even with the heat bearing down on most of us and wil...more
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Book Review: Artemis Fowl & the Opal Deception
Author: Eoin Colfer
Pages: 352
Series: Artemis Fowl #4
Date Started: 7/23/10
Date Finished: 7/24/10
Simple Summary: Opal Koboi has returned and Artemis has to get his memories back in order to save the fairy world. DUN DUN DUN!
Rating: ★★★★★ ...more
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The finalists for Lisbeth
Thompson on Hollywood has a report that there are five finalists for the role of Lisbeth Salander and they are all pretty much unknown. Sorry, no Carey Mulligan or Ellen Page.
Daniel Craig is still the first choice for Mikael Blomkvist but they are st...more
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Exclusive Interview: Motocross champion Ashley Fiolek
One of the biggest stars in motocross, Ashley Fiolek has succeeded on and off the race track. At nineteen, she is already the top female competitor in a tough men’s sport. Since going pro in late 2007, Fiolek has taken gold at the X Games, won the ...more
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Ashley Fiolek is kicking up dirt
Buy Kicking Up Dirt at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Borders or an independent bookseller.
At nineteen, Ashley Fiolek is already the top female competitor in a tough men’s sport: motocross, a form of off-road motorcycle racing that is one of the most c...more
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Children’s Books with a Healthy Dose of Chick Power
Do you remember when you were six and you cared for nothing else in the world but running through the sprinkler for hours, and then finishing it off with a lime popsicle?
Back then boys were gross, your energy was at full-blast 24/7, and your hero could ...more
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Keep Your Inner Child Alive: Children’s Books We All Loved
In 1962, Philippe Ariés published a revolutionary work titled Centuries of Childhood. As part of his research, Ariés drew on a variety of sources, including paintings from the 1700s, which depicted children not as kids but as miniature adults. He asser...more
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Another Nicholas Sparks tearjerker: The dish on Dear John
Whenever I first saw the trailer for Dear John, I was more than excited. Being an avid fan of Nicholas Sparks and his super easy to read and sometimes overly sappy novels, I was hoping that a movie would finally be made about one of his books that followe...more
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A Favorite Fiction Chick: Jodi Picoult
Most chicks have heard of Jodi Picoult, probably from the movie based on her book My Sister’s Keeper, but have you checked out her other books?
If you haven’t you should really consider it, especially if you liked “My Sister’s Keeper.” She cove...more
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