The Pretty Girl in the Room

At cer­tain points in every girl’s life gen­der pol­i­tics force choic­es between the male world and the female world. Between girl­friends and guy friends. Between the some­times fick­le loy­al­ty of female friends and the weird­ly non­cha­lant alle­giance of male friends. I long ago opt­ed for the male world. Frankly, men are more fun. They have … 

The Books of October

Late, because well, it’s late. Books Read: Library of Souls: The Third Miss Peregrine Book — Ransom Riggs Not as good as the ear­li­er books in the tril­o­gy. You can tell in places that he’s added mate­r­i­al (gen­er­al­ly sen­tence or two of descrip­tion of the appear­ance of a char­ac­ter — a walk-on part as it were) … 

The Books of September

Listened to: The Night Circus: Erin Morgenstern — This is a repeat. I loved the book and enjoyed lis­ten­ing to it a cou­ple of years ago. I revis­it­ed it on the morn­ing walks ear­ly in September. I still love it. Ms. Morgenstern has been some­what pub­licly work­ing on her next books for sev­er­al years. I hope …