book review — the curious incident of the dog in the night-time

This book is old news by now, but I finally read the curious incident of the dog in the night-time, by Mark Haddon. I’m so glad I finally read it! What an amazing book. It’s a simple story — an unusual boy sets out to solve the mystery of who murdered the neighbor’s dog. But [...]

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book recommendation — Peeps

Here’s something weird. Last week, without talking to each other, my sister and I both happened to randomly browse our individual library’s teen section, stumble upon the book Peeps, by Scott Westerfeld, and both checked it out. It’s a good book, so we both read it last week. We discovered on Sunday that we had [...]

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5 most influential books from my youth

I’ve noticed that the things I saw and read in my childhood made such an impression on me. I’ll read a book or watch a movie now and forget it by next week. But the stuff from my childhood, some of those things I’ll never forget.
It’s hard to quantify which books were the best or [...]

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totally embarrassing story alert

I love the library. I love self-help books. I love self-help books about relationships even more. I can’t help myself–I always have and probably always will. (Sometimes my husband puts up with reading a relationship book together, sometimes not. I think he’s a saint for doing it at all.)
So yesterday at the library I picked [...]

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censorship

Here’s my rant of the week. I get so annoyed by people who think they know all about censorship. The following is an account of one of my coworkers, so I really can’t verify the truthfulness of it, but I’ll respond to her story as if it is all correct.
My coworker went to Deseret Industries [...]

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