Recently it occurred to me that I own a lot of books. I’m not sure how this escaped my notice for so long. But I had absolutely been telling people, “I don’t
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A Little Personal History The first time I officially recognized my illness as a disability was in 2006 when I registered with Student Disability Services at Barnard College, which I attended at
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I resent the fact that almost any young adult novel with stylized, first-person teen male POV is automatically judged against John Green. It’s a shallow way of looking at what we should
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Many fiction fans get to the final page of a brilliantly immersive novel and immediately experience the crushing, numbing paralysis known as a “Book Hangover.” Dazed and disoriented, convinced that “nothing else
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You might not know it from when you first meet me–given that I am bitter, cynical, sarcastic, and hard around the edges–but I am a total romantic at heart. I was overjoyed
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Well summer is officially here. My classes are done and major work projects wrapped up. The last few weeks were intense, with finals going straight into wrapping up a major freelance assignment.
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Wow, I reached the point where I felt suffocated by the walls of my house the other day. It’s been a nonstop grind going straight from finals into wrapping up a writing
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Ermagod. Benedict Cumberbatch…whatever you think about his appearance, nobody can deny that he has one of the sexiest voices in the world. Seriously, he could send me into a hot sweat if
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If director Wes Anderson’s films were novels, there would be midnight release parties at bookstores around the world each time an Anderson-penned hardback hits the shelves. Your friend who always dresses up
MoreIt took me five months to finish HBO’s Game of Thrones, but finish it I did last Sunday. I loved the first season and was ambivalent about the second and third, but damn,
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