Reading Addict

 I’m sure I should be embarrassed about this, but I’m a sucker for makeover reality TV shows. You know the ones, where perky hosts in stilettos either clean out your closets and force you to shop for jackets with nipped-in waists or perky hosts in spande… more »

My memory is perfect. Except for all of the times when it’s not. (Which is, truth be told, pretty much all of the time.)   Despite this (or maybe because of it – I don’t remember), I tend to enjoy novels in which memory plays a thematic role… novels wh… more »

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Narcissism is generally not a good thing. Extreme selfishness, getting stuck in your own perspective, no empathy for others, etc.: bad.   But reading narcissism – i.e., reading novels that reflect your life or experience or profession or family or pass… more »

When my nephew was much younger and not yet acclimated to the pretend-gender-wars dynamic of family Game Night, he started to cry when my sister and I taunted the “boys” team with chants of “Girls rule, boys drool!” (It’s okay. We apologized and expl… more »