Lori Duff Writes
Gods Behaving Badly: A Novel Gods Behaving Badly by Marie Phillips gets points mainly for creativity. I’m always happy when I find a book that isn’t like all the others; that doesn’t fit a formula or even a particular genre. The premise of this book is that the Greek gods didn’t disappear with the fall…
A MOTHER’S LAMENT Twinkle twinkle little star Get this trash out of my car The Taco Bell The Coffee Cup: Balloons that you were blowing up Up above the world so high Somewhere there’s a bright blue sky It can’t be seen Through this dim glass Through fingerprints and dust and ash How…
Hello. My name is Lori, and I’m a Yesoholic. I have a more or less clinical resistance to saying no to whatever people ask of me. In fact, even when I say no, people take it as a yes. For example, when I was nominated as the secretary of the middle school band boosters my…
A Solitary Romance: Book 1 in the Only Love Series Disclaimer: The good folks at Books and the Bear gave me a copy of A Solitary Romance in exchange for an honest review. A Solitary Romance by Violet Sparks tells the story of Katrina Crimshaw, or “Kate,” a CPA and auditor who has a blog…
If I were a little kid, and I presented you with this picture I had drawn with crayons:you would have no real way of knowing if it was supposed to be a boy or a girl. It’s kind of a generic person face. Nothing especially feminine or masculine about it. However, if I were to…
Every Day Every Day by David Levithan is further proof of my theory that if you want to read a really good, beautifully written, engaging, creative, through provoking book that you ought to spend most of your time in the young adult section. Every Day has an unusual premise. The narrator, known as “A,” wakes…
Comes the end of the day (defined on some bad days as 3:00 p.m.) and I am completely brain dead. There has been enough input and the overworked filing clerks in my skull need some time to sort out the information gathered in the day and put it into some sensible order. Enter Candy Crush. …