Many of you know – and even if you don’t know, you probably won’t be surprised to learn – that I have been working on a book for the past year. It was an anthology of essays about how modern… Read more ›
I was 20 years old and in undergrad when I first picked up Stephen Chbosky’s 1999 novel, The Perks of Being a Wallflower. The book had been making the rounds among my friends for five years before I finally got… Read more ›
I’m on the Ms. Magazine Blog today, reviewing Julia Alvarez’s A Wedding in Haiti for your reading pleasure: Feminist novelist Julia Alvarez (How the García Girls Lost Their Accents, In the Time of the Butterflies), known for her clear, unaffected… Read more ›
Hey Chifems! Remember, we are meeting on 4/1 to talk about As Always, Julia! Hope to see you there! 1. These women are both pioneers in a feminist sense. Are they considered feminist icons? Why/not? 2. In the introduction, we… Read more ›
I fell in love with literature at a very young age. I loved books so much, I wanted to create them, because I wanted to give readers the same joy many authors had given me. Then, I grew up a… Read more ›
Recently, one of my former students came to me and asked for some book recommendations for over winter break because she had recently finished The Book Theif on my recommendation, and hadn’t been able to find anything that came close… Read more ›
Follow My Lead: What Training My Dogs Taught Me about Life, Love, and Happiness by Carol Quinn – Purchase Follow My Lead from Powell’s Bookstore via this link and I’ll receive some of the money from your purchase. All comission from the sale… Read more ›
The Taste of Salt by Martha Southgate My rating: 5 of 5 stars My friend, Amanda, gave me an advance copy of The Tast of Salt a little while back, and I picked it up shortly thereafter because the cover… Read more ›
Lucky for us, Susie Bright will actually BE IN CHICAGO in October, so we are going to get to meet her to talk about the book rather than do it virtually! Horray! Unfortunately, this means we need a new book… Read more ›
The #chifems are at it again with yet another intriguing book selection for the summer! This month, we’ll be reading Big Sex Little Death by Susie Bright and, by her suggestion, we’ll hopefully be having a conversation via Skype with… Read more ›
Sex and the City has always bugged me for reasons I could never put my finger on. That is, before yesterday. I was sitting at an awesome, feminist lunch with my pal Amanda (who I am SO GLAD is back… Read more ›
The Magicians by Lev Grossman My rating: 3 of 5 stars Well. I read this book because Jillian recommended it to me and loaned me the book. And I am absolutely not sad I did. However, I do think the… Read more ›
Good Enough Is the New Perfect by Becky Beaupre Gillespie My rating: 3 of 5 stars I’m going to start this review with two important admissions: 1. I am not a mother. 2. I consciously decided not to finish the… Read more ›
The cameras missed the outside murders and could not follow Eric and Dylan inside. The fundamental experience for most of America was almost witnessing mass murder. It was the panic and frustration of not knowing, the mounting terror of horror… Read more ›
I started reading Columbine by Dave Cullen (book #4 in my 30 Before 30 challengeyesterday and made it through a third of the book in a nonstop reading session. At that point, I physically had plenty of time to read more,… Read more ›
In the future of America, after the Heartland War, abortion is made illegal. The Heartland War, after all, was not a war involving any military, but was a war between the pro-choice and pro-life forces in America. The war got… Read more ›
Image by GoodNCrazy via Flickr I’m sure by now you’ve all noticed I’ve been conspicuously absent these past few days (or maybe you’ve been busy enough with families and turkeys that my absence hasn’t really been noted). I honestly haven’t… Read more ›
A few weeks ago, I received my very first review copy of a book in the mail, and you can imagine my excitement! The book was Enlightened Sexism by Susan J. Douglas, which only heightened my desire to get started… Read more ›