Woah baby it's been a while. Rest assured my friends, while I've been away from writing about the books I've been reading as furiously as ever. So much so that my to-write-about stack is making quite the effort to grow bigger than the to-read stack. I used to believe that a commute to work would … Continue reading Whistling Vivaldi
Have I mentioned maybe a million times how much I love that I have friends who read and then give me recommendations? Because I do. I love it so much. My friends are the best and the smartest and are never wrong about what I'll like to read. Which brings us to The Botany of … Continue reading The Botany of Desire
After we filled up on cookies at the top of our hike we headed back down the hill. The way down, as ever, was much faster than the way up. Though, not as fast as it usually is given how genuinely scary the wind was. I feel like in my last post I hyped the … Continue reading May 21, 2017: You May As Well Go For It
The movie Chocolat is probably one of my favorite movies. The story always makes me sad and happy cry, the characters feel real and beautiful and the movie's general aesthetic is right up my alley. Also the chocolate, good lord the chocolate. The movie gives me all of the feelings including hunger. So, when I … Continue reading Chocolat
It's not so often, really, that I get multiple recommendations for the same book over the span of a couple years. That is exactly the case, however, for The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson. I got so many recommendations for it that I finally bought it about a year and a half … Continue reading The Devil in the White City
We knew we wanted to go on a hike in Connemara but we didn't have any idea as to where exactly in Connemara we needed to go to do that. So we did what every reasonable person does in this situation, we google mapped Connemara and headed to the first point that was labeled visitor … Continue reading May 21, 2017: “Some would say that’s too much…”
Have I mentioned how much I love being in a bookclub? At first I thought it was just because there's nothing I love more than having a conversation about a book, but now I'm realizing that I also like when someone else tells me what to read. I would never have thought to pick up … Continue reading The Three-body Problem
An interesting side effect of social media (looking at you Twitter) is that the online communities we become a part of contain people who have an internet life and an entirely separate not the internet life (some people call this "real life"...this blogger remains skeptical that it's any more real than this). I love following … Continue reading Difficult Women
I know that there are a lot of people who look down on the gift shop. It is the epitome of a tourist trap. Everything is overpriced and most things are pretty darn tacky and I love them so so so much. I would never skip the main event for the gift shop but in … Continue reading May 20th 2017: Gotta Love A Gift Shop
Ok, so, as my dad has said, "We've been stuck in Galway for a long time." This is true. I'm back on the Throwback Thursday train and so ready to tell you all about my time at the Cliffs of Moher. I've tried to keep my travel section of this blog from just turning into … Continue reading May 20th 2017: THE CLIFFS OF INSANITY
