

The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides
The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides I was fully expecting to love this book. I fell in love with Eugenides' writing when I read Middlesex... and again when I read The Virgin Suicides. In the past, I have fallen into his writing. It envelopes you, bringing you into the dark, scary and fascinating world that Eugenides creates. So I was surprised when I wasn't there for The Marriage Plot. At all. I wanted to love it so badly. And for awhile, I convinced myself "This is


Where BearAllen will go when she dies
Because I'm a genius, I successfully worked my inaugural visit to Strand Bookstore in NYC into an otherwise boring client visit. And it was everything I ever thought it could be. It was full of all the books and all the book-related merchandise that I would be happy to spend Lorelai's entire college tuition on. As silly as it sounds, I found myself tearing up as I stood there and took it all in. I was surrounded by the kind of people that fully understand tearing up in the m


My new-found love of Audible and what I'm reading now!
I am currently obsessed with Audible. If you haven't yet checked it out, it's a website where you can pay a subscription fee ($14.95 for one credit, one credit buys you one book per month) to download audiobooks (and if you know how expensive audiobooks usually are, you fully understand what a steal this is). My commute recently increased from 25 minutes each way to double that, and I felt like I was missing out on so much great reading time. So I decided to ditch my Sirius