Born a Crime I really enjoyed this book, and it was a compelling, entertaining read. Born a Crime painted a scene of what it was like for Trevor Noah to grow up under apartheid, with a mother who was an amazingly strong and determined woman, a father who he saw only a few times, and …
The first time I heard Hamilton was in 2015. I was in college, and one of my roommates shared it with me. I was hooked quickly, listening to it non-stop for a few months, then still listening to it really frequently throughout the next several years. When Hamilton was going on tour, A friend of …
The Beekeeper’s Lament In August, I went to a friend’s house, and their roommate had bees. I got started asking questions because that is generally how I handle conversations with new people and then I became a bit obsessed with beekeeping. I want to get bees and keep them in my yard and get local …
Going into Town I read all of this while standing in a comic book store in Ann Arbor, and it was a quick, personal read – it made me want to read more graphic novels. The Way I Used To Be I really liked this book – it reminded me a lot of “Speak” but …
I’ve been fascinated by thru-hiking for years. It started when I was at church camp and saw part of the North Country Trail, with it’s blue blazes through the woods near camp. Someone told me that the NCT was going to be a long trail, like the Appalachian Trail. Much later, I read Carrot Quinn’s …
Miss Penigrine’s Home for Peculiar Children I’ve been meaning to read this book for about ten years. It was a really entertaining book, and had strong world building without crossing the line into being too magical or too nonsensical. Yes, there was sci-fi/fantasy, but those elements had rules and the book was still rooted in …
There’s a reason why I decided I wanted to lean into fitness this June, but I didn’t state it publicly before, because it was a big, scary goal and when you make it public, people see. And when people see you declaring that you are going to do something, they expect you to actually do …
In July 2007, I was fourteen years old and I had a desktop computer and I started a blog. I wrote about knitting, and reading Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, and starting high school. In March 2012, I started a new blog about art and design, and I interviewed artists, and wrote reviews of …
I have exercised more in the past two years than I ever have in my life. I was never a particularly athletic kid – I played soccer for a while, I ran a season of cross country in middle school, and I trained for a 5k in college, but sports were never my thing. In …
From Here to Eternity I loved loved loved The Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, so it only makes sense that I would love Caitlin Doughty’s second book, From Here to Eternity. In it, she details death rituals from around the world. The book made me question the way that the death rituals I grew up …