Throwback Thursday: Symbolic Recipe

Throwback Thursday, where, essentially I post old writing samples, essays and short stories that I dig up from my pile of hoarded papers and school assignments or from the depths of my computer. So everyone can see how my writing has changed/improved over the years.   How to Make Sam Soup* Ingredients: 2 teaspoons: Anxiety…

Mini Book Reviews: Fowl Language – The Struggle Is Real / Heart and Brain – Body Language / How to Be Perfectly Unhappy / Lady Stuff – Secrets to Being a Woman

LOOK WHOSE FINALLY WRITING SOME BOOK REVIEWS! Between school (5 AP classes are NOT conducive to reading), and college apps (NEVER ENDING but IMPORTANT), I haven't had time to read. But these are all super quick, funny, light little cartoon-graphic novel reads. I'm trying to get into reading more again, I swear. I read all…

NetGalley Review: Breaking Up Is Hard To Do (But You Could Have Done It Better)

I received an e-arc of this book from netgalley and this is my honest review. Original Release Date: January 10th 2017 Date I Read The Book: March 2017 My Star Rating: 3 Stars Official Summary: Anonymous break up stories from men and women, old and young, serious and silly and the cartoons that inspired them.…

Netgalley Review: Man Vs. Child – One Dad’s Guide to the Weirdness of Parenting

I received an e-arc of this book from netgalley and this is my honest review. Original Release Date: May 9th, 2017 Date I Read The Book: May 2017 My Star Rating: 5 Stars Official Summary: Moms have hundreds of parenting advice books willing to tackle the more cringe-inducing questions of parenthood. But what about books…

Book Review: How To Live Safely In A Science Fictional Universe

Original Release Date: September 7th 2010 Date I Read The Book: January 2017 My Star Rating: 4 stars Chronology: Standalone Official Summary: National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Award winner Charles Yu delivers his debut novel, a razor-sharp, ridiculously funny, and utterly touching story of a son searching for his father . . . through…

Netgalley Review: Miniatures – The Very Short Fiction of John Scalzi

I received an e-arc of this book from netgalley and this is my honest review. Original Release Date: December 31st 2016 Date I Read The Book: November 2016 My Star Rating: 4.5 stars Chronology: A book of short stories Official Summary: The ex-planet Pluto has a few choice words about being thrown out of the…