Every Sunday morning, the Kadampa Meditation Center, at Southwest, holds a class, called ‘Advice for Life’ from 10a-11a with their resident teacher Gen Demo. She is extremelly well spoken, articulate, and hands out nuggets of gold every single class. I always come with a notebook and a pen to jot literally every word she speaks…
Everything I Read in February
My reading goal for 2018 is 72 books, which is exactly where I ended up for 2017. My goal for this year breaks down to a nice and easy 6 books per month. But I somehow closed out January with EIGHT books. Crazy. I know. And this month is shaping up to be no different….
You’re Officially One of My Favorite Authors, Celeste Ng
Celeste Ng’s first novel, Everything I Never Told You, made it onto my personal ‘top five books I read in 2016’ list. In fact, I still get chills thinking about it. Ng’s writing is so powerful and deeply, harrowingly insightful. When Ng’s second novel, Little Fires Everywhere, was released last year, and immediately climbed the ranks as a…
Does Listening to an Audiobook Count as Reading?
Does listening to an audiobook count as reading? This is a question I have been grappling with for quite sometime. This blog post has been on my mind for months and months, and once I started digging and reading about the history of audiobooks, I knew I had to share with you.
Perplexing Thoughts about Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly
Deep exhale. Martha Hall Kelly’s first novel, Lilac Girls was really tough for me to rate on GoodReads. Mainly because I have very strong and conflicting feelings the way in which this story was told. Lilac Girls is based off a true story, the horrors that took place at Ravensbrück, and the ‘Rabbits’ that were experimented on. If this…
Two Audiobooks You’ll Be Glad You Listened To
Some books are meant to be listened to. I’m a firm believer in that, and will preach that until the day I die. Though, I do get a tad anxious anytime I load up a new audiobook, because the flip side of believing some books are meant to be listened to, I also strongly believe…