Desperately Seeking Bookworm

Some people do empty videos on YouTube and G does it on her beauty blog Nouveau Cheap, so maybe I'll try it. You never know how much stuff you use up, until you save your beauty trash for a month and it's a lot! Currently July is going the same way, but hopefully August won't? Who knows. Enjoy short mini reviews of my beautiful trash... Hair Batiste Floral & Flirty Dry Shampoo: I'm going to be honest there is nothing that works better, smells better, or is cheaper than this dry shampoo! This is the exact same scent of Drybar's dry shampoo, but it works better. I will never stop using this brand. I buy it in bulk and am currently working on the tropical scent. Not Your Mother's Deja Vu Do Sytle Extender (VoxBox): If you  have oilier hair and are looking for something to help with second day hair get this! This will help keep you a bit cleaner and if you use this with a bit of dry shampoo at night. Or at least a cleaner looking ponytail. Marula ...

Was anyone as obsessed with The Girls Next Door as me and my high school friends were in the mid-aughts? We loved this show! My favorite was Bridget (obviously), then Kendra (the fun one with a Corgi!), and coming in last was the very un-fun and super boring Holly. Nothing against her she was very pretty and seemed to really love that old bag of skin called their boyfriend, but I never really connected with her. As a child of the 90s Supermodels were role models. I thought everyone grew up to be Cindy Crawford and Christy Turlington, because that's who was always in TV commercials or on magazine covers. I would say reality stars and playboy bunnies were kind of the natural progression of not only my shallowness, but as my "role models". Hence the obsession me and my girlfriend's shared for this damn show. Flash forward 10 years and the most boring member of the pack writes a juicy memoir. Should I read it? Well I do love me some memoirs, and the cover was pin...

This was the second book I read of the Summer, and it was pretty alright. I like that it was easy to read as YA is and as YA goes there was a good life lesson. No vampires or crazy mysteries here, just a well told story that was based off a real life case. In 2012 a real life incident at a high school came to the national spotlight as 2 star football players were charged and convicted of the rape of a classmate at a party. Additionally there were 4 adults who were charged with covering up the crime and the principal was charged with covering up an additional rape that took prior. It was a very awful case and I was quite sickened by it, but I don't want to go into too much detail because this isn't what the post is about. I just thought I would give some background on the case to set up this book. Short version is that this is setup like this case, but it takes place in Iowa instead of Ohio and features basketball instead of football. Kate Weston can piece together most of the...

So, this was a fun read. Not really, because it was about death, but it was decent-ish. I'm kind of torn about this book. I made the mistake of reading other reviews on Goodreads and they weren't particularly kind to the author. Reviewers told me that the author was quite self-centered and rather annoying. With that now in my head I also began to see the author as self-centered and annoying, somewhat. I'll also admit that I thought this book was something completely different. I put this on my Goodreads list in 2012, and into my Summer reading list probably sometime in 2014. Sometimes when I put books on my list and check them out from the library I rarely read or lookup what the book is about. I believed this book to be a memoir of an abandoned child, someone whose father left and how that impacted their life. That turned out not to be the case because it was the memoir of a 9/11 widow. Lucky—that’s how Jennifer would describe herself. She had a successful law career,...

Yes, yes I know another box. I'm sorry I can't help myself. I like mini things and I like to have a lot of them. I am a beauty hoarder. Until there is meetings for it I will not admit my addiction publicly, just on here. Back to the box, Allure is a newly branded beauty box (formally Sample Society) that has been around for quite sometime. Before they got a makeover mid-2015 Allure was known for being a more expensive option ($15 a month) and sending out really really tiny samples from the same collection of brands. As an avid stalker of MySubscriptionAddiciton.com I can tell you that they have gotten a lot better.  So when a round of spoilers came out in April for the May box I had to have it! Apparently I wasn't the only one with that idea because they oversold that box. I was then told (after I contacted customer service twice) that I was to be getting the June box instead. I'm not going to lie the initial spoilers for this month did not wow me and I was regret...

Oh updates, I have a few of them. First, sorry for my absence, but I have some good reasons. I've been rather preoccupied with work stuff and also looking for a new job. Another rather awful update I haven't been into reading much lately. I've actually really been into a couple of new shows and binge-watching on Netflix. I just finished Nurse Jackie which was excellent and I've just started Awkward. Which I'm very much liking. As far as Summer TV goes I've been liking Braindead and two ABCFamily (I will never call it FreeForm) shows Guilt and Dead of Summer . Both are kind of good and probably made for 14 year olds, but what can I say they just speak to me. There has also been some great pre-Olympic action happening in National Championships and Olympic Trials. Huge Olympic fan, so that has also been keeping me from getting some reading in. I'm hoping that will all change soon, and I can kick my butt into gear and get back into reading & reviewing! I h...