Guys, it's April tomorrow, and I drove to work through snow yesterday. SNOW. Why is this still happening?! Could someone come get me out from under my comforter when it's all over? Speaking of work, this was a particularly busy month for me. I visited a couple of schools for data collection (at one of them, I got a big ol' sneeze to...
Full Storify of the tweets here. My Twitter feed was all abuzz yesterday after young adult author Melissa Grey (@meligrey) posted a series of tweets about re-imagining the classic story of Cinderella as the triumph of a child abuse survivor. She challenged the idea that the story is "antifeminist dreck," all about a woman who "waited around" for her prince (a man, naturally)...
This is not a particularly positive review. Julianne, you may want to avert your gaze. To everyone else, avert your gaze if light spoilers bother you. After waiting for what felt like an eternity but was actually a totally reasonable amount of time, I got my hands on the last two-thirds of the Southern Reach Trilogy by Jeff VanderMeer. I came home giddy...
This is my super serious academic face and 1/4 of my poster. I'm back, baby! If you haven't checked in recently, I spent the latter half of my week at an academic conference on child development where I got to present some of my lab's recent research. This was my first time attending a conference, not to mention my first time presenting a...
In just about an hour, I'm hoppin' a train (by which I mean purchasing a ticket and quite legally riding) to Philadelphia for an academic conference. I get to present some research I worked on early last year, because I'm an adult (or, at least, someone out there seems to think so). I've been a busy bee getting loose ends tied up in...
Last week Er, in January, I knocked another title off my Classics Club list when I finished The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck. As you might have gleaned, it's taken me a while to get a review up because 1) I'm lazy, and 2) I've had a hard time coming up with what I want to say about the book. At its simplest,...
I've been thinking a lot about the different reasons we might have reading and/or blogging slumps (because I'm currently in one). There are a whole bunch of them out there: maybe you just came off of a really amazing or soul-crushing read and now have a book hangover; or maybe you're burned out on books and could do with a break; or maybe...
Yes, this is cheating. Yes, I'm doing it anyway. If you follow me on Twitter, you've probably been bombarded with seen my tweets about being in something of a reading and blogging slump. It's been quiet around here the last week or so, and I'm hoping to bounce back into it very, very soon. Andi's post about curating her own book tasting menu inspired...
FYI: My recent inability to shut up about this trilogy is 100% Julianne's fault. The Southern Reach Trilogy by Jeff VanderMeer comprises Annihilation, Authority and Acceptance. The first is sub-200 pages, with the latter two close to 350 each because VanderMeer is a tease. I finished Annihilation at the start of February was really hoping I could read all of these around the same time and post...
First things first: Nowadays I can't think about Tuesdays without this song starting in my head. You can either blame or thank my boyfriend for that one. It's a mix for me, probably due to the mere-exposure effect. Speaking of that dude I live with, we had our fifth(!) anniversary last week. He took me out to a lovely French dinner (très délicieux)...
The last time I reviewed a horror collection, I mentioned that I hadn't found that horror book, the one that would scare me as much as some of my favorite/oh-lord-why-did-I-do-this-to-myself horror films. Well, I found it, and... oh lord, why did I do this to myself? I first got this book in the middle of February, and it took me just about two weeks to...
