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Book Review: Sweetness #9
I don’t know what I was expecting when I started Sweetness #9. I had been hearing nothing but praise, I was vaguely aware of the Colbert connection, but hadn’t read so much as a plot summary before I...
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Book Tour: How to Build a Girl
Being a teenage girl is horrible. My friend and I were talking about it the other day, and we both decided no amount of money could make us willingly repeat our teenage years. It’s a miserable few...
View ArticleFuture Reading Plans
With 2014 winding down, I’ve been making plans for the future. Well, actually I don’t need anything to be winding anywhere in order to do that. My mind just sort of does that continuously. But making...
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Book Review: Under This Beautiful Dome
Beautiful. Honest. Heartbreaking. These are just a few of the descriptors that can be applied to Terry Mutchler’s brave new memoir, Under this Beautiful Dome. It was the ’90s, the era of Don’t Ask,...
View ArticleWhynott Blog’s 2014 Reading Stats
So, that year went by quickly! I’m starting 2015 way behind on posts I’ve been meaning to write. As usual one of my resolutions is to get better at time management. One of those posts was my “Top Picks...
View ArticleJanuary Wrap Up: 2015 So Far
So, I made some pretty big plans and promises for 2015 (most of them to myself) and so far: none of them are panning out. Life and work have really told me a thing or two about what they think of my...
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Book Review: The Book of Strange New Things
As the first book I’ve managed to finish in 2015, The Book of Strange New Things by Michel Faber is holding a special place in my reader’s heart. Peter Leigh is an English minister who has been chosen...
View ArticleConfession: I’m a late Blumer (#BlumeALong)
It all started with one simple confession on Twitter. Kerry over at Entomology of a Bookworm (who gets credit for the amazing featured image I borrowed), wondered to the Twitterverse whether or not she...
View ArticleAre You There, Judy? #BlumeALong
I just finished my first experience with Judy Blume, and I feel…grown up. I went into this reading of Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret fully aware that I am no longer in the target demographic and...
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Holy Cow, It’s July (#JulyReads)
I have been so majorly lagging behind with the posting this year. I could make all the usual excuses (life, work, etc.) but really it boils down to my time management skills still leaving something to...
View ArticleNew Reading Plans (It’s Monday!)
I started the year with a goal: Only read “big ass books,” which I defined as 700+ pages, in an attempt to slow myself down/free myself from a developing obsession with new publications and stretch my...
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Book Review: The Girl Who Slept With God
You know those books that pop up randomly and suddenly they’re everywhere? That’s the experience I had with Val Brelinski’s debut novel The Girl Who Slept With God. I had been hearing murmurs around...
View ArticleSunday Funday! October Wrap Up/November Plans
Sunday Funday is a new feature I’m starting her on the ol’ blog to give myself some space for whatever-strikes-my-current-fancy writings. The beginning of the month will be a combination wrap...
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Book Review: The Book of Speculation
Author: Erika Swyler Publisher: St. Martin’s Press Publisher Description: Simon Watson, a young librarian, lives alone in a house that is slowly crumbling toward the Long Island Sound. His parents are...
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Book Review: Big Magic
Author: Elizabeth Gilbert Publisher: Riverhead Books Publisher Description: Readers of all ages and walks of life have drawn inspiration and empowerment from Elizabeth Gilbert’s books for years. Now...
View ArticleBook Review: Better Than Perfect
I’ve dealt with perfectionism for the majority of my life, in all aspects of it. In school, anything less than an A was unacceptable. I would never get into a good college, which meant I wouldn’t get...
View ArticleBook Review: Fates and Furies
Author: Lauren Groff Publisher: Riverhead Books Publisher’s Description: Fates and Furies is a literary masterpiece that defies expectation. A dazzling examination of a marriage, it is also a portrait...
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Book Review: Wildflower
Author: Drew Barrymore Publisher: Dutton Publisher’s Description: Wildflower is a portrait of Drew’s life in stories as she looks back on the adventures, challenges, and incredible experiences of her...
View ArticleSunday Funday: Favorite Bookish Podcasts
I’m not sure if this is clear, but I love books. So much so that books were my way in when I started listening to podcasts. Anything to do with book reviews and recommendations got my attention...
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Book Review: Better Than Before
Author: Gretchen Rubin Publisher: Crown Publisher’s Description: The author of the blockbuster New York Times bestsellers, The Happiness Project and Happier at Home, tackles the critical question: How...
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