I’ve been unemployed since March of last year and as much as I would like to say that I’ve been productive with my time, I haven’t. I’ve been lazy. I mean, I worked on the house. I fixed the fence in our backyard and renovated my mom’s bathroom, along with other things. But, did I […]
Read MoreOne of my last classes in college was on adaptations. It was in that class that I learned that adaptations aren’t just a one way road. It isn’t just books to movies. Sometimes it’s the other way around. Although, I hate movie novelizations. And, sometimes, books turn into movies that turn into plays that inspire […]
Read MoreI don’t know when I stopped but I used to read all the time. Maybe it was when I moved halfway through high school or when I started dating my fiancé. I just know that’s it’s been a truly long time since I would spend every single day invested in a book. Until now. I […]
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My Mom and I live across the street from an elementary school. She sometimes goes over there for her work. And me, knowing that the school was having a Scholastic Book Fair one week, I asked her to get me a book if she did visit. Fortunately for me, she did, and she brought me […]
Read MoreMy mom and I made it a tradition to go to The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books every year since I was about 12? So for about 12 years now we have never missed a single festival. We had talked about not going this year due to… you know… I was, of course, greatly […]
Read MoreHave you read something where at the end you thought, “what did I just read?” One of my 2020 goals was to read a book a month and write book reviews about them. But, like most of new year goals, it didn’t go as planned. As I finished my January book this morning, February 1st, […]
Read MoreIt’s almost two weeks into the new year and I’m already messing it up. How is that possible? Well, for me, keeping goals is extremely hard. Unless it’s for eating a whole pumpkin pie in a day. That is totally do-able but also something I’m trying to avoid. My goals for this new year were… […]
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