Desperately Seeking Bookworm

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...

I love a good memoir! Fast Girl: A Life Spent Running From Madness by Suzy Favor Hamilton hit the spot. Olympians are the coolest, I'm just gonna come out and say that. I have immense admiration for someone who dedicates their life to a dream that they can only make come true once every four years. I remember the name Suzy Favor Hamilton, but I don't really remember her as a track star like I do Jackie Joyner-Kersee. So I went into the book semi-blind. I knew the back story and why I was interested, but I still had a lot to learn. The former middle distance Olympic runner and high-end escort speaks out for the first time about her battle with mental illness, and how mania controlled and compelled her in competition, but also in life. This is a heartbreakingly honest yet hopeful memoir reminiscent of Manic, Electroboy, and An Unquiet Mind. During the 1990s, three-time Olympian Suzy Favor Hamilton was the darling of American track and field. An outstanding runner, a major s...

An Autobiography: Melissa Explains it All by Melissa Joan Hart I am a Nickelodeon era child. I grew up watching Salute Your Shorts, Ahh Real Monsters and my favorite Clarissa Explains It All.  Fun fact: I dreamed of having a pet alligator named Elvis and crushed hard on Sam the boy who came through the window. Really Nickelodeon just really got kids back in the 90s. Don't get me wrong Disney did too, but Lizzie Maguire, and the The Famous Jett Jackson came wayyyy after. Wen I heard that Melissa Joan Hart was going to be writing a book I was like "uh yes please!" And then it took me almost 2 years to actually read it. I think we all know by now that I'm awful at reading new releases. Picking this up and choosing this as my first read of 2016 was the perfect choice! Melissa Joan Hart explained it all-from dating to bullies-in her groundbreaking role as Clarissa Darling on  Clarissa Explains It All . She cast a spell on millions more viewers as  Sabrina,...

Photo from Goodreads I have a new book to add to my speed reading record list! Yes I know I'm a fast reader, but most of the time I don't realize I'm reading that much that fast.  Like when I read The Hunger Games for the first time, I had to stop myself at 3 in the morning from finishing the whole book at once!  This time I wasn't that lost in the story, but it had large print and extremely short chapters (most likely because it was written by a senior citizen)  I'm talking about Betty White's sixth book If you Ask Me (And Of Course You Won't) . It's an advice book without being an advice book.  Of course you want to know Betty White's thought on subjects like aging, loss, and children! Why wouldn't you?  The chapters were topic oriented and specific to something that Betty had experienced in her own life.  I liked the chapter set up ( I'm a sucker for short chapters anyways). They were so easy to read, that I was done before I even kn...