Okay. Here's where the exhaustion starts setting in--not because I'm not getting more than 7 hours of sleep a night. I usually do. But, I haven't slept deeply in more than a week now. Freya's been waking up every hour or two hours to nurse or fidget or diaper change. What this means for me is that I'm being subjected to sleep torture--every time I ( Read more... )

Yesterday I read a book called "The Prince of Tides" by Pat Conroy. It's like nearly 700 pages in the paperback version I have (physical copy of the book! GASP!), but I just read it from start to finish. I was feeling bizarrely tired and lethargic yesterday. Even though I had plenty of things I should have done, I ended up staying most of the day ( Read more... )

I have something to say about a movie that I think most people heard of, if they didn't see: Into The Wild.

For those who are spoiler sensative, then I suggest that you don't read this review. Instead, take away from it that I felt that it was a terrible film, in every important way.

For those who don't mind spoilers, especially if it's about a film ( Read more... )

This is the continuation of my segmentation of "The Beauty Myth" that I wrote about before. This isn't really in response to the renewal of feminism from the film; I've been reading it again all week. I want to say that I've gathered lots of high minded thoughts, but really, all I've done is come to the conclusion that I am disgusted with the fact ( Read more... )

I don't want to detract from my other post, but! Awesome!

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Sometimes it feels like you can't go two steps in the Fantasy Genre World without someone being compared to JRR Tolkien. "The world building of Tolkien" or "The epic story of Tolkien" and so on. Tolkien is The Name you get compared to when someone wants to say "great ( Read more... )

It's actually already Sunday. My Saturday was completely absorbed. I feel a little depressed about it going by so fast. But, I guess some of that was just the fact that I did a huge vacuum during the day, for the hope of continuing my battle versus the Fleas Of Everlasting Life. I have to admit that I really did feel a lot of relief that at least ( Read more... )

I got a fantastic book awhile back now (in December) by Naomi Wolf, called "The Beauty Myth." It's now pretty dated--it's from the early 1990s, which is now, zomg, 20 years ago. But, what it most shocking and horrifying is how it's not DATED at all with so many of its main points. As a woman, who has been forced to deal with these very issues for ( Read more... )

Sometimes, I think that I forget just how many books I've read in my lifetime. That number is most assuredly over 2,000. At least. One of the many, many, many books I've read that number over 400 pages is Charlotte Bronte's "Jane Eyre." It depresses me to no end that two of my favorite ladies of the 1800s (Charlotte Bronte and Jane Austen), both ( Read more... )