I am an expert on fantasy fiction and young adult fiction. I love this stuff. It takes minimal brain cells to compute and provides a relaxing and entertaining break for my brain. Generally my friends and I pass around our books so that we can all get together and chat about what scenes we felt [...]

I recently read Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen, a novel I couldn’t recommend more. It is, more or less, the fictional biography of  Jacob, a young man who finds himself joining a circus as a vet during the turn of the century – back when the circuses were huge and still traveled by train. [...]

A couple weeks ago I was hanging out at my friend’s family camp up north when I pulled out my book, which happened to be The Mummy Case by Elizabeth Peters. The book is part of a series that centers around a Victorian lady Egyptologist and adventurer who is always involved in some mystery or [...]

I’m trying to decide if I like these headbands/bandannas or not…and whether or not it’s worthwhile to make more of them. I quite like them and wear them often, but I’m not sure whether or not people would be interested in buying them. Then there’s the fact that they actually take quite a bit of [...]

Well, I only have about 4 weeks of classes left until summer, so I thought I’d put together a summer reading list. I’m notorious for buying books and then never reading them; personally I don’t see how one can have too many books. So this summer I’m going to attempt to read some of the [...]

Generally I do not recommend books I read for school to the everyday person. This is for a several reasons: 1. Most of them are not optional reading, and therefore I did not choose to read them; 2. After 6 years of college, I barely understand most of them: struggling through a 300 page [...]

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I’m a big time book nerd. I love to read and my room is crowded with books; three bookshelves isn’t enough so there are stacks of books all over the floor. I also like attempting to organize my books. I say attempt because I never leave enough room on the shelf after I’ve [...]