Desperately Seeking Bookworm

So I got my Birchbox about a week ago for this month and I thought I'd review it for everyone. Usually I just use things and then say I hate them, I never give them a fair chance. With this box, and this post however, I will be doing full reviews. As always I'm excited about the thought of getting my Birchbox every month, but they very rarely deliver. This month though, wasn't too bad since I actually got things I've wanted to try. For those of you who don't know Birchbox is a monthly subscription service that delivers 5-6 deluxe size samples to your doorstep for $10 a month. It is a recurring charge, or you can chose to purchase gift subscriptions. They also have a points system, for every 100 points you earn you get $10 in the shop. The points can be earned by purchasing boxes, items in the shop, writing reviews on the item, and inviting friends. The contents of my box were: Juice Beauty Stem Cellular Repair CC Cream Beauty Protector Protect & Detangle...

Whenever I’m scoping out makeup on YouTube or on other blogs, people are always raving about Wet and Wild. I too have been intrigued by the brand, because I know that it has come a long way from the cheap makeup you used to get when you were in middle and high school. The formulas have changed, but the prices have generally stayed the same. So when Walgreens was having a bogo sale I thought how could I resist? I didn't pick up much, just some things I've heard good reviews about and the rest was just things that appealed to me. I picked up two bronzers, one eight-shadow palette, one eye trio, one lipstick, and one lip gloss. In all I believe my total came to about $10 before tax, (I bought a couple other things), so not too sure on my final total. For Six items that isn't bad and I was super excited to try out my new purchases! The first thing I picked up was the Coloricon Bronzer with SPF 15 in “Reserve Your Cabana” . This is the lightest b...

So this post is going to be my first "negative" review, and I say negative in quotes because it is, but it isn't. I read Penelope by Rebecca Harrington, and I can only describe it as a bad movie that you cannot tear your eyes away from. I tried very hard to stay positive while I read it, thinking that it was about to get better with the turn of the next page, but it didn't. Was it easy to read? Absolutely. Did it have a standard rise and fall in plot or action? No. This book had absolutely nothing happening in it. And the characters were so utterly weird that you couldn't like them or even want to read about them. Even the "heroine"/title character wasn't great. She wasn't overly unlikable or an underdog, she was just a plain boring girl from Connecticut. I'm going to copy paste the description from Goodreads, so you can pre-judge this baby for yourself. Here we go... "When Penelope O'Shaunessy steps into Harvard Yard for the...

During the blizzard in February, I knew that we would lose power. So to avoid udder 18th century induced boredom, I stocked up on some good books from the libby and made sure I had plenty of batteries for my flashlight. When we did lose power (right in the middle of TMZ) I whipped out my trusty flashlight and picked up my first suitor, Jaycee Dugard's haunting memoir A Stolen Life . The 2011 memoir tells the horrifying and somewhat inspiring story of the kidnapping and life of Jaycee Dugard. Dugard was kidnapped at the age of 11, by Phillip & Nancy Garrido and was held hostage by them for 18 years. Victims in these circumstances very rarely come forward and talk about their experience, let alone do it so eloquently and with a perspective like Jaycee's.  She takes you into the hell that became her life for years, and you feel every moment of it. I believe her intention was not only to get her story out there and told, but to also help other people who may have been in simi...