Author Archives: Ginger

Hello, I Must Be Going by Christie Hodgen

Read: February 2012 Rating: Thumbs Down Review: Just a poorly written book. The worst kind of crap: foreshadowing things that never happen, scrambling at the end to create some kind of point to the whole mess, and no redeeming behavior … Continue reading

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Something Borrowed by Emily Giffin

Read: January 2012 Rating: Thumbs Up Review: This is chick lit, just FYI. Although I wasn’t satisfied with the ending to this book, I loved how it pulled me right in and was one of the quickest reads I’ve ever … Continue reading

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Against Love: A Polemic by Laura Kipnis

Read: January 2012 Rating: Thumbs Up Review: Ah, nonfiction. I’m not generally a fan because of one reason and one reason only: it’s always WAY too long. I would say about 90% of the nonfiction books I’ve read would have … Continue reading

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A Girls’ Guide to Hunting and Fishing by Melissa Bank

Read: January 2012 Rating: Thumbs Down Review: This book follows the love life of a girl from her early teens to her early thirties, through a series of sequential vignettes. At first I couldn’t tell they were all about the … Continue reading

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Bel Canto by Ann Patchett

Read: January 2012 Rating: Thumbs Up Review: While Ann Patchett is not my favorite person (based on what I know about her), this book is amazing. I read it originally when it first came out in 2002 and remembered loving … Continue reading

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The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler

Read: January 2012 Rating: Thumbs Up Review: A sort of meandering, pointless book (I’ve only read two by Tyler, but that seems to be her M.O.) that follows the life of a man after the death of his son. It … Continue reading

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Be careful what you put in the office recycling bin

Everyone should be somehow recycling their print paper after they use it. However, if you are recycling personal emails or other sensitive forms, remember that some people pull paper out of the recycling bin to use as scrap paper. I … Continue reading

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I need some help

I live in a basement apartment, and my windows are too high on the wall for me to set anything under them for the dog to perch on and look out the window. So he spends all day, every day, … Continue reading

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Dogs are so disgusting

I’m not going to lie to you. Almost all dogs eat discarded food on the street. Lots of dogs eat vomit. And some dogs even eat poop. They say poop eating is a result of a dietary deficiency that they … Continue reading

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City living is turning me into such a lady

I saw some nasty, sloppy-drunk men loitering on the front steps of a masonic building on my walk home last night (at like 5 in the afternoon!), and true to form, one of them was urinating against a cement slab. … Continue reading

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