Desperately Seeking Bookworm

Birchbox would like you to Go Bold this month! First I just want to point out how amazing this months box is, the actual physical box. I am absolutely totally in love with the print and I was overly careful in opening up the outer pink box in order to not scratch or damage the beautiful inner contents. I've never been overly impressed with every Birchbox that I get. There's always 1-3 items I hate and 2-3 that I love. This month though I loved EVERYTHING ! July Sample Choice: Stila Stay All Day Liquid Lipstick in Venezia Full-Size: $24 "This creamy formula glides on like a gloss yet lasts (and lasts and lasts) like a stain." For almost a year now we've been able to pick one of our samples. This month we were able to choose 1 of 3 colors of Stila's Stay All Day Liquid Lipstick. Sample choice was early this year and the mobile site wasn't working for me, so I wasn't able to chose my color. I was a little upset because I knew I would get the coral...

My Summer Reading List isn't doing so hot guys. I have bailed on the following 4 books... Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walters Wicked Charms by Janet Evanovich Diamond Head by Cecily Wong Witches of East End by Melissa de la Cruz I've tried to read all 4 of these books, and so far none of them have captivated me. Beautiful Ruins also got a second chance, but I just couldn't do it. There was something about it that just threw me off. I think the storyline was not as simple as I would like for a summer read. I prefer something simple and beachy not flashing back and forward through time and changing characters left and right. Diamond Head just didn't quite grab me in the first 50 pages and I didn't have enough confidence that it would wow me in the coming chapters. When it came to Witches of East End I just couldn't do it. I tend to like to read the book first before the movie or TV show starts, and since I have already watched and loved the now cancelled ( ...

My summer reads haven't been too promising, but Anita Diamant certainly gave me hope.  From the New York Times bestselling author of The Red Tent and Day After Night, comes an unforgettable coming-of-age novel about family ties and values, friendship and feminism told through the eyes of young Jewish woman growing up in Boston in the early twentieth century. Addie Baum is The Boston Girl, born in 1900 to immigrant parents who were unprepared for and suspicious of America and its effect on their three daughters. Growing up in the North End, then a teeming multicultural neighborhood, Addie's intelligence and curiosity take her to a world her parents can't imagine - a world of short skirts, movies, celebrity culture and new opportunities for women. Addie wants to finish high school and dreams of going to college. She wants a career and to find true love.  Eighty-five-year-old Addie tells the story of her life to her twenty-two-year-old granddaughter, who has asked her ...