Welcome, we're now dating.

We are now a couple. Mark this day on your calendar's people because now we're going to be celebrating this as our anniversary forever more. Don't worry I'll probably forget about it 3 months from now, its only child syndrome we get bored easily. So don't feel bad when you forget to get me that new Urban Decay Palette I've been lusting over.

If however, you are searching for a gift, something you could always give me is a book. Books are everyone's friend. Why do you think the Monk's starting writing them in the first place? Actually I don't know if that's true, I might be confusing it with them making beer. Anywho we're gonna talk about books! OMG its so exciting, its somewhere in between shoveling snow after a nor'easter and an all day Cheers marathon. (Don't roll your eyes, Cheers is amazing. I'm watching it right now and you would too if you knew what channel it was on).

If you're like me and you rather enjoy literary adventures than you've come to the right place. If not well you can go read some other blog about Halo or cupcakes, whatever you find interesting. So once again welcome and be sure to come back soon for my first review, which should be posted soonish because I'm on the home stretch of the latest Stephanie Plum novel, Notorious Nineteen.

Till then my other, till then. Enjoy your Cheers reruns!

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The Expatriates by Janice Y.K. Lee or Another Disappointing Read

A Book that Came Out this Year: The Expatriates by Janice Y.K. Lee Ugh what a downer. Usually I'll stop reading something if it doesn't grab me within the first 50 pages, and I didn't have to do that here because within the first 50 I was in. It was the middle 200 that really wasn't that great. The best way to describe The Expatriates by Janice Y.K. Lee is to take Little Earthquakes by Jennifer Weiner minus the breastfeeding and Mommy woes and add in an exotic local and kidnapping. Not that I don't love myself some Jenn Weiner, but I thought this was going to be 100% different. Damn you GMA, you pulled me in with a review and it was not like you said! Mercy, a young Korean American and recent Columbia graduate, is adrift, undone by a terrible incident in her recent past. Hilary, a wealthy housewife, is haunted by her struggle to have a child, something she believes could save her foundering marriage. Meanwhile, Margaret, once a happily married mother o...

The Pulitzer Prize Dilemma...

I've been having a hard time deciding on what to read in order to check off Pulitzer prize winner on my reading list. Originally I wanted to read The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt. After some further research, I read a lot of reviews that weren't very kind about Ms. Tartt's work. And they weren't professional reviews either, they were just ordinary reviewers on Goodreads, because the professional reviews that seemed to only fawn over this book. I'm conflicted. I fell like I should at least give The Goldfinch a try, but it's a really big book. I have some backups A Visit From the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan and All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr . I've just finished the 4th book in The Selection Series, so now I can focus on this daunting task ahead of me. Any suggestions if this doesn't work out? I'm open to non-fiction winners as well! UPDATE: Okay so The Goldfinch definitely did not work out. I think I'm going to go with A ll the Lig...

Terrible True Stories

Two books I read in January were both non-fiction accounts that were informative, sad, and grotesquely interesting. The first being Gracia Burnham's In the Presence of My Enemies , a terrifying recount of Burnham & her husbands time being held captive by an Islamic military sect, Abu Sayyaf, based in the Philippines. The second non-fiction novel was Jerry Oppenheimer's Crazy Rich: Power, Scandal, and Tragedy Inside the Johnson & Johnson Dynasty . I don't think it needs a one sentence summary because really we can all draw our own conclusions from that title. Photo Courtesy of Goodreads Quick Facts: Based on the true story of two American missionaries taken hostage in the Philippines. The Burnham's (Gracia & Martin) spent over a year in captivity. Rescue attempts along with the actual rescue were very botched resulting in the wounding of Gracia & the deaths of Martin, as well as one other remaining hostage. Okay so that's not a lot of qu...

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