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You Lazy Son of a Biscuit!

Or, more reasons why the Internet killed books.

Getting Bookish: Reading ‘Purple Hibiscus’

In keeping with my resolution to read more books with physical pages (#ProjectNoScrolling), I finished Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s novel Purple Hibiscus. Yay, me! I enjoyed the book immensely. You should definitely pick it up if you haven’t read it. Here are my takeaways: The Skinny Kamibili Achike, the 15 year old Nigerian protagonist, narrates the novel, whichContinue reading “Getting Bookish: Reading ‘Purple Hibiscus’”

Doing a Good Job with Hands is Not a Hand Job

Doing a Good Job with Hands is Not a Hand Job If you write and struggle to find new ways to describe ordinary things, this article by The Onion should crack you up.

What, Exactly, is ‘Awesomesauce?’

I’m just going to come right out and say it: I have a vocab crush on the word “awesome.” It’s pretty, well, AWESOME! Something about that open first “ahhhh” syllable and the hissing finality of the last syllable speaks to me, like jumping out of an airplane and landing on your feet, arms akimbo, withContinue reading “What, Exactly, is ‘Awesomesauce?’”

Netflix is the New Cable

About three years ago, as part of my Frugal Frannie regimen to send my husband off to grad school, I killed my cable and went all-Netflix. We currently stream through our trusty PlayStation 3 console. We had both the streaming and the DVD option until about two months ago, when we realized we would holdContinue reading “Netflix is the New Cable”