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Character Study: Don Draper and Walter White
I’ve heard a lot of bellyaching (and accusations) that America has no culture. Sure we do! We’ve got Disney and Pixar, the American Revolution, the Gettysburg Address, McDonalds and Wal-Mart, and...
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Random Review: Perfect Chemistry
The sixteen-year-old me would have loved this book. Secretly. Perfect Chemistry by Simone Elkeles Brittany is a babe-alicious golden girl, queen of the school and captain of the pom squad, quarterback...
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Mix-Tape Mondays: Guilty Pleasures
You lucky thing you, just for a surprise this week I have a playlist ready to roll. Two larger-than-life high school hotties uncross their stars in the teen romance Perfect Chemistry, and I’ve set it...
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Random Series Review: Wicked Lovely
I finally finished it! The Wicked Lovely Series by Melissa Marr Teenaged Aislinn can see faeries, but she’s been well-trained since birth not to let them know that. Unfortunately for her, there’s a...
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Mix-Tape Mondays: This Time With More Guitars
I’m sorry I’ve left you waiting so long, but never fear are here! This week I’m bringing you a playlist for an entire series, featuring exactly one more song than I usually include. That’s commitment,...
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NaNoWriMo 2013: And They’re Off!
It is the second day of National Novel Writer’s Month 2013 and it has finally occurred to me what I should have done in the run-up to November 1st so that I would be ready to write this tale. Obviously...
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NaNoWriMo: One-Third Gone
Oh dear, Inklings. I am so behind. I came down with a sinus infection back around day four and spent two days in bed (missing classes and a group meeting as well as my word count). It took me until...
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NaNoWriMo 2013: Two-Thirds Past
Inklings, I’m gonna be straight with you. I caught up after my sinus infection! Eighteen thousand and some-odd words. Then I didn’t write anything for two weeks. Then my super pregnant writing buddy...
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NaNoWriMo 2013: Eye of the Tiger
I’ve got my clean living room to myself, a playlist a mile long, and I’m full of frozen burritos. Let’s do this. #NaNoWriMo — LesYeuxHiboux (@TryScience) November 25, 2013 Over the weekend I prepared...
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NaNoWriMo 2013: Goodbye Girl
Dear NaNoWriMo, I am breaking up with you. This isn’t a “he didn’t dump me, I dumped him” situation. I simply feel that we have outgrown each other. I won’t be hitting fifty thousand words in November,...
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2013 Literary Year In Review
Just in time for last-minute Christmas book-buying, it’s time again to take a look back at all the books I loved and loathed in 2013 (and I’ve got quite the backlog of reviews.) I did not get to read...
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Random Review: Bitter Greens
A Rapunzel far more Grimm than Tangled. Bitter Greens by Kate Forsyth Kate Forsyth’s Bitter Greens is the braided tale of three women’s lives, wound around the structure of the Rapunzel fairy tale....
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Mix-Tape Mondays: David and Goliath
Merry Christmas Eve-eve, friends and readers! I have prepared a little present for you. The first of my diversified in which I expand my self-created sonic universe to include more than ten song...
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Mix-Tape Mondays: A Fistful of Rampion
Ending the year on a strong note, I’m bringing it home with the last installment of for 2013. It is a testament to the tight plotting of this (much loved, recently reviewed) novel that any song on the...
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Happy New Year! I Wrote You A Story.
I recently had a silly idea for a short story, so I wrote it. Now I will share it with you. I wrote it all tonight and did not really edit it at all , so… The zombie apocalypse began and ended on a...
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Mix-Tape Mondays: Splatter Platters
It’s all about teenage tragedies this week on A “splatter platter” or “teen death song” (I think the former is a bit catchier) was a genre that hit its zenith in the 1950s and 60s. In these songs a...
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Resolved
Filed under: Art, Uncategorized Tagged: art, goals, impossible, painting, resolutions, watercolor, why do I do this to myself
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An Interesting Story About Women
Here is an interesting story rife with drama, complex characters, and plenty of moral gray area that features two women at its core. The women are not fighting over a man or doing anything in any way...
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Random Review: It Started With a Dare
The cover looked fun, but the story was dumb. It Started with a Dare by Lindsay Faith Rech This girl looks like a lot more fun than the one I read about. Tomboyish Cynthia Gene Silverman moves to a...
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Random Review: Jellicoe Road
It is astonishing how much tragedy the author was able to lay on this reader without losing me entirely. Jellicoe Road by Melina Marchetta Taylor Markham’s past is a mystery she has yet to solve. She...
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