Stop. Messing with. My childhood. It has become en vogue to harangue the makers and manufacturers of Barbie for negatively affecting girls’ body image, and giving them unrealistic expectations about what they should look like. That’s a lot of power to give an inanimate object. I was a serious Barbie […]
This post contains affiliate links. I’ve been told I read too much. Mostly by people who don’t read enough or at all, as far as I can tell. Maybe it’s true. I have been known to find more pleasure in the pages of a book, to feel the sting of […]
This post contains affiliate links. “This story is for all the slightly broken people out there.” ~ Patrick Rothfuss, June 2014 The above is excerpted from the author’s endnote of The Slow Regard of Silent Things by Patrick Rothfuss, and aptly sums up this neat novella. If you aren’t familiar […]
This post contains affiliate links. I knew I would read Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? the second I learned its title. That pretty well sums up my middle and high school experiences, except for the fact that everyone was hanging out without me, and I didn’t have a cool […]