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#Girlboss by Sophia Amoruso
My work has a women's group that has a book club. I recently asked the local bookstore guy what books would be a good pick for such a group. Which is how I ended up reading ( Read more... ) -
Show reviews
I went to two shows in the past two days, neither of which I had a ticket for before day of, cause sometimes that's what being a New Yorker means.
Kinky Boots - It's facile, it's forgettable, it's fluff, but dear god is it fun. Just, a load of fun. My only objection is to the sound design, because when the rock band came in, I couldn't understand ( Read more... ) -
Hamilton
On Tuesday, I saw HamiltonIt felt like I spent the evening on a different planet. I bought the ticket a year ago, because I realized if I wanted to see it, I should buy the ticket before the Tony nominations, and I refused to pay more than $100. This meant clicking through every single performance till I found the first one with a single ticket for ( Read more... ) -
Real World
Back in July, I picked up a bunch of used CDs from the Princeton Record Exchange (still my favorite music store--seriously, if you're ever in Princeton, check it out) and have been slowly working my way through the stack ( Read more... ) -
The Galapagos Affair
I watch a lot of documentaries, and I always mean to post reviews and never do, so I think I'm going to try posting five minute reviews as I go. Here's the first:
The Galapagos AffairWhen half a dozen people get fed up with society and independently decide to move to the same extremely remote island so that no one can ever tell them what to do ( Read more... ) -
Yellow Dirt by Judy Pasternak
If you are not yet mad enough at mining companies, governmental bureaucracy, or how this country continues to treat Native Americans, have I got a book for you! I just finished Yellow Dirt by Judy Pasternak, which is about uranium mining on the Navajo reservation. I picked it up after my trip to Utah--I even went out to Monument Valley in the ( Read more... ) -
Con.txt
For the first time in eight years, I'm going to Con.txt! Talk to me, fandom that is still on LJ/DW--who else is going?
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Fic: A Greater Sense of Security Than Warranted
Yuletide reveal! I got Pretender, and of course I took a TV show where the main character spends every episode as a soldier, fire fighter, policeman, doctor, and chose to make him an accountant. My biases, they are obvious ( Read more... ) -
Book Review: Let the Right One In
Title: Let the Right One In ( Read more... )