Tag Archive | book review
Goose: The Outrageous Life & Times of a Football Guy
I’d be lying if I told you I didn’t know precisely why I picked up Super Bowl champ/ football commentator Tony Siragusa’s memoir. He grew up in Kenilworth, New Jersey: a town all of two blocks wide that directly borders my own hometown. So when his book came out, my town library set up a […]
The Statistical Probability of Love At First Sight
Do you believe in fate? Destiny? Love at first sight? For some hopeless romantics out there, these lofty concepts make the endless quest for a “perfect” romance totally worth it. Others among us are probably disillusioned with the hackneyed ways these ideas are talked about. The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight by Jennifer […]
The Lowdown on ‘The Lo-Down’
Allow me a second to explain: classes are back in full swing, and I’m already feeling the pressure of keeping up with copious academic readings. (There are only so many PDFs of Austrian philosophical critique a girl can take.) Light, mindless reading is my personal equivalent of watching guilty pleasure reality TV. So, desperate for […]
How the Room Came to Smell Like a Rose
I was walking down Liberty Ave. in Pittsburgh, PA scoping out local hotspots when I came across a bookstore called Awesome Books. Awesome, huh? Total “you-had-me-at-hello” moment. I went in and found an entire bookshelf stocked with novels, poetry, and anthologies by Pittsburgh authors. Score! As a collector of unique finds from my travels and […]
S’Mother
Moms are great, aren’t they? Mine reads The Collabor-eight multiple times a day: she’s our biggest fan. That being said, crazy mother stories are some of the funniest out there. Because everyone can relate to knowing a friend or relative that you love unconditionally, despite the crazy. So you can pretty much already guess what […]
The Truth About Men
Dr. Ian K. Smith, of VH1 Celebrity Fit Club fame, has come out with a book claiming to let women in on the human race’s best kept secret: what men are really thinking. Oh? Do tell. I received a free copy of this book while I was a member of the audience at a taping […]
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