reading all books referenced on Gilmore girls

A friend snagged pics of me while I was reading Home by Marilynne Robinson during lunch. And DAMN, I need to hop on the treadmill. #marilynnerobinson #home #gilead

I’m so scared. This is now my second attempt at going into a comic book store. At least this time I know what I want… Lumberjanes. Through the magic of Twitter and people who actually know things about things, I know that the first trade was released this week. From what I can gather, purchasing trades is more my speed over purchasing the individual comic editions. Let’s be honest, I barely have my traditional book system figured out. There’s a small likelihood that I’l

Aside from the atrocities that hit you in the face early on in this book, something else stood out to me in the story of the Jurić family. Unlike other books, the action happened at the top of this book and then the rest of the pages were spent in working towards the healing of the main character and the place she calls "home". It's rare that we see the climax upfront and traditionally readers are pulled through a story by the promise of future action. I found myself being p

Horrorstör by Grady Hendrix The glossy, bright IKEA catalog appearance of this book was completely deceiving. I figured this would be a fun, light-hearted poke at the place IKEA holds in our culture while using a generic horror story as the mechanism. And that is not at all what this story was. I read this book over three nights, and my sleep each of those nights was disturbed by really creepy dreams (not necessarily nightmares...the creepy dreams were somehow more disconce

I tend to avoid all schmaltzy narratives that focus on September 11th (sorry Edward Cullen... I'm not watching Remember Me), but reading an excerpt from this book had me rethinking my previous stance. I experienced this as an audiobook borrowed from my library and was instantly sucked in the moment the narrator started speaking. The main character, Oskar Schell reminded me a lot of the boy in The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time. While I don't believe Oskar to

I have never been quiet about my love of the Little Free Library. I get all mushy over the fact that there are so many people out in this world who love books so much, they dedicate a spot outside of their house to lend books to people who might not have easy access to reading material. The existence of LFLs was originally brought to my attention by the amazing artist that happened to do all of the custom illustrations for this site. Talent + a love of books = someone I li

Read my review here! #dawnpowell #selectedlettersofdawnpowell #dorothyparker #rorygilmore #4cups

As the mother of an almost-two year old, I find my living room reverberating with the sweet melody of Barney's Don Knott-esque voice, by O the Owl's inability to relate to people outside of a book, and and by Husband's rants that the gang at Chuggington Station are all so useless that they should be sent to the junkyard and made into razor blades. And seeing as Lorelai started walking at 10 months, sometimes the only time I'm guaranteed not to have to run interference between

So, because I've been nailing 2015... reading-wise (not so much diet or exercise or life-plan wise), I think I recently got wayyyy too ambitious. I'm reading Selected Letters of Dawn Powell for my challenge... I'm listening to Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer... I took out Horrorstor (too lazy to figure out umlauts) by Grady Hendrix... I took out Delicious Foods by James Hannaham... I just picked up The Turner House by Angela Flournoy from my hold at

As I'm mid-Getting Things Done, was in need of a new audiobook and was listening to (as I always do) the Book Riot podcast, I decided that I would download The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande (author of Being Mortal). I had been listening to a lot of fiction on audiobook lately so it was about time for some non-fiction. And given my recent thoughts about organizing my life and the power of getting to-do items out of your brain and onto a piece of paper/app/some sort of