Those Darn Vampires….

Right now I am reading Brave New World with my seniors.  This is not a light read.  I need balance.  I need light reads mixed in with my heavy dystopic, oh no look what we have become, literature.  So sometimes, yes sometimes, I read fluff.   Right now I have discovered the Sookie Stackhouse novels and [...]

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Review: Handle with Care by Jodi Picoult

Summary:  (Taken from jodipicoult.com)  When Charlotte and Sean O’Keefe’s daughter, Willow, is born with severe osteogenesis imperfecta, they are devastated – she will suffer hundreds of broken bones as she grows, a lifetime of pain. As the family struggles to make ends meet to cover Willow’s medical expenses, Charlotte thinks she has found an answer. [...]

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Bright Lights, Big Ass by Jen Lancaster

Jen Lancaster is funny.  That is the only word I can use to describe her.  She is funny.  Laugh out loud, snort your drink out of your nose, kind of funny.  Bright Lights, Big Ass is a collection of essays (with a scattering of emails throughout) ranging from topics about the Holy Trinity (Target, Trader [...]

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Book Giveaway

I am giving away a package of books here:
1. Confessions of a Shopaholic by Sophia Kinsella
2. Something Borrowed by Emily Giffin
3. The Gatecrasher by Madeleine Wickham (aka Sophia Kinsella)

This contest will be open until April 15th. Here are the rules:
1. For one entry please leave a comment telling me why [...]

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Balancing and Why I read “Chick Lit”

Okay, so I have been on a “chick lit” kick lately. I feel the need to explain this. I read literature, I read the classics, in fact, I study the classics. Right now my students are reading Hamlet and The Great Gatsby. I re-read these every year and analyze every sentence, [...]

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Sloppy Firsts

Yes, I have found myself sucked into another teen/high school series.  Something about this one though makes me feel as though it is intended for an older audience.  The narrator, Jessica (Notso, as her dad refers to her) Darling has a little bit of that intelligent mouthy sassiness that makes me hesitate to recommend this [...]

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Goodnight Nobody by Jennifer Weiner

So it is February vacation and since I am on vacation I decided to start it off right with a little chick lit.  For me, Jennifer Weiner is a respectable version of the “paperback novels with candy pink covers” (a line she uses in Goodnight Nobody). I found this book to be entertaining and yes, [...]

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