The BookFetish Blog

Last night, I went with friends to see the film adaptation of The Perks of Being A Wallflower. If you remember, Perks was my Banned Books Week Selection last year and one of my 2011 Bookish Bests, and I’ve been excited about the movie since I finished my re-read of the book last year. I […]

I’ve worked very hard this election season to stay relatively apolitical- sharing things with only a few people in private messages, rather than posting on my own feed. But the comments revealed over the last few days scare me, and I feel compelled to say this: It TERRIFIES me that people in leadership in this […]

I was a sorority girl.  I loved my four years of mixers and parties, of always having someone to sit with in the dining hall or class. I made friends I have to this day. I wore the sort-of preppy clothes and worried about our image (were we being discreet, classy, etc).  I can still […]

My Uncle Mac died this morning. He’d gone into the hospital for a relatively minor procedure, but they wanted to keep him overnight for observation. About two o’clock this morning, he had a massive heart attack. He was my mom’s last surviving brother, and of the ten children in my mom’s family, only three are […]

Stop. Just stop. That was my reaction this morning when I put Pandora on to provide some background music while I was working.  I was inundated with ads about finding single men in my area. Facebook does the same thing. It’s exhausting. Because I would like to be in a relationship, find the man of […]