So earlier today I told some of my friends (er, and all of Twitter) that my big plans for the day were to go with James to the HEB Plus grand opening in my neighborhood. Yikes, I know. I sound pretty lame, right? Well, you know, after two intense weeks of revisions, I’ve sort of [...]
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Last year I posted a run-down of my favorite books to give as Christmas gifts. This year I’ve been posting book reviews on a fairly regular basis (though I have been sluggish as of late – there will be some to come!), not to mention doing almost daily holiday shopping recommendations over at The BookKids [...]
~ read more ~With another blog. So I work at this amazing bookstore and help run the kids section and we have this blog all about kids’ books. I write in it. It’s awesome. Here is my first post for said blog, and, goddammit, you should read BookKids regularly.
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Dear Publishers, I am writing you as a lover of books, no, an ambassador of books. As an inventory manager at a large independent book store, I assure you, I care for books like very few Americans do. I spend a lot of time every day thinking about books, shelving them in my head the [...]
~ read more ~There is little more unnerving than cleaning out your closet and taking your clothes to a consignment store. Let me explain. I have a clothing addiction. It’s been a problem since I first started my career as a mallrat in the 7th grade. I bought things that I thought were hip, but not suited to [...]
~ read more ~Believe it or not, I’m literate. I spend a lot of time reading pop novels, because that’s what I like to read. I’d like to think that one day I’ll battle through Ulysses, or even engage some of the Hemingway tomes I’ve bought for my boyfriend. I have books by Virginia Woolf and fully intend [...]
~ read more ~Friday night we’ll be drinkin’ ManishewitzGoin’ out to terrorize GoyimStompin’ shaygetz, screwin’ shiksasAs long as we’re home by Saturday morninCause hey, we’re the BrewsSportin’ anti-swastika tattoosOi Oi we’re the boysOrthodox, hasidic, O.G. Ois –NOFX So my friend Rich was in town from the Pittsburgh area this weekend. On Sunday evening he and I decided, after [...]
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