Lori Duff Writes
I have to sell a little piece of paradise, and I’m hoping you will help me. I mean, I don’t have to have to, I’m not a desperate seller, but it doesn’t make sense for me to hang on to it. Way back in 2007, about 15 minutes before the housing bubble burst, my husband…
The Magicians: A Novel (Magicians Trilogy) “The Magicians” by Lev Grossman is an adult story of wizards and wizarding, and is the basis for the series on the SyFy channel (which I haven’t seen.) While comparisons to Harry Potter are inevitable, there are more nods to Narnia in the book, and it really stands on…
A Gentleman in Moscow: A Novel “A Gentleman in Moscow” by Amor Towles is one of those beautiful books that, when you are finished, make you want to clutch it to your chest and close your eyes and sigh. The simple plot belies its profundity. Count Alexander Ilyich Rostov lives under house arrest in Moscow…
My husband and I have had a long standing argument about whether or not I am a cheap date. He swears I am. I wasn’t convinced. The problem, I joked, was that he was comparing my normal human metabolism to his, which resembles that of a hummingbird. The man lives on Skittles and Jamocha shakes…
Finding My Badass Self: A Year of Truths and Dares I was given an ‘advance reader copy’ of “Finding My Badass Self: A Year of Truths and Dares” by Sherry Stanfa-Stanley in exchange for an honest review. I do this kind of thing often, mostly because my desire for free books outweighs my desire for,…
Customer No-Service I work in a law office. And, working in a law office, we get more calls from the jail than your average business that isn’t a bail bondsman might. In fact, getting calls from the jail is a pretty important part of our business, what with there being a whole part of the…