my buick bucket list trip: parnassus books
Every once in a while, things miraculously come together in a perfect storm of timing.
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reading by kindle-light
I love books. Not just reading, but actual books. You remember those? Made out of paper? With interesting covers that you weren’t supposed to judge the book by – but always did? With pages that you had to turn using – I’m sorry, children, I don’t mean to scare you – your fingers?
lesson learned
I’ve always been a magazine junkie. I suffer from a serious Us Weekly addiction, as you may remember from my Blogger Idol post about the apocalypse, but my obsession goes way deeper than that. Growing up, I devoured every type of magazine – fashion, celebrity, travel – carefully cutting out pages which I then pinned…
Reader Donna Agins Reviews “Unfinished Business: One Man’s Extraordinary Year of Trying to Do the Right Things” by Lee Kravitz
Have you ever done anything you regretted? Have you ever wished that you could go back in time and correct it? That is what the fascinating part memoir/part introspective journey, Unfinished Business, is about. Author Lee Kravitz was the uber busy editor-in-chief of Parade magazine. He worked too hard, too long and too intensely at his…
“adrift” movie review and book giveaway
Michael and I have been looking forward to seeing Adrift every since the first trailer, where Shailene Woodley meets Sam Claflin, they fall in love, decide to sail from Tahiti to San Diego together and end up in the middle of one of the worst hurricanes ever recorded. As the drama built slowly, Michael and…