The Delicacy and Strength of Lace

I read several excerpts of this book last night for one of my classes.  The beauty and love sewn throughout these letters between James Wright and Leslie Marmon Silko is just absolutely amazing.  I’m not even sure I have words to adequately express the deep emotion contained in their correspondence.  I had tears in my [...]

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This is what I’ve been doing…

for the past 10 weeks.  Not to mention writing, researching, making a website, and learning Italian.  I’m quite tired. At least they, most of them anyway, were rather interesting books. I will probably give more in-depth reviews on these books in other posts but here’s a quick rundown for a few of them. I highly [...]

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Delightful.

I finally found some time in between all my school reading to read something uplifting and delightful.  I have always loved Audrey Hepburn, and the more I read about her the more fondness I have towards her.  How to Be Lovely is by no means a novel, but it’s filled with tidbits of Audrey and [...]

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the accidental vegan

I just bought this cookbook this afternoon while waiting for my new glasses to become uncomfortable (it seems things other than shoes made by Italians are prone to a breaking in period) and I’m already super excited and have hardly perused the recipes!  Perhaps I’m just happy to be reading something other than the imminent [...]

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The Effect of Living Backwards

I was meandering about Barnes and Noble one day and just happened to see this book sitting pleasantly on a bookshelf.  Things opposite of “normal” tend to catch my eye so I picked it up, read a few pages, put it back on the bookshelf, went home and bought it online for much cheaper (Alibris, [...]

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