1. The Mermaid Chair -- Sue Monk Kidd
   
2. We Should All Be Feminists -- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
   
3. Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman -- Lindy West
   
4. The Sun Is Also a Star -- Nicola Yoon
   
5. Hillbilly Elegy -- J.D. Vance
   
6. The Witches: Salem, 1692 -- Stacey Schiff
   
7. The Gap of Time -- Jeanette Winterson
   
8. Vinegar Girl -- Anne Tyler
   
9. Things No One Will Tell Fat Girls -- ( Read more... )

1. Fates and Furies- -- Lauren Groff
   
2. Neverwhere -- Neil Gaiman
   
3. The Secret Keeper -- Kate Morton
   
4. The Rosie Project -- Graeme Simsion
   
5. The Accidental Tourist -- Anne Tyler
   
6. Girl in the Dark -- Anna Lyndsey
   
7. My Sunshine Away -- M.O. Walsh
   
8. A God in Ruins -- Kate Atkinson
   
9. So You've Been Publicly Shamed -- Jon Ronson
   
10. A Wild Swan: And Other Tales -- Michael ( Read more... )

1. The Lowland -- Jhumpa Lahiri
   
2. The Yellow Birds -- Kevin Powers
   
3. The Yiddish Policeman's Union -- Michael Chabon
   
4. The Signature of All Things -- Elizabeth Gilbert
   
5. Childhood's End -- Arthur C. Clarke
   
6. The Glass Castle -- Jeannette Walls
   
7. When She Woke -- Hillary Jordan
   
8. The Kite Runner -- Khaled Hosseini
   
9. Firefly Lane -- Kristin Hannah
   
10. As You Wish: ( Read more... )

We decided to kill some time last night at a local furniture store. We were about to leave (empty handed) when I saw a pile of clearance rugs. I've been wanting a rug for the living room for a while, but the size we need -- minimum of 10 x 12 -- means the rugs are always ridiculously expensive. But there was this pretty blue-grey rug with brown ( Read more... )

1. The Goldfinch -- Donna Tartt
   
2. And the Mountains Echoed -- Khaled Hosseini
   
3. The Middlesteins -- Jami Attenberg
   
4. The Wolf Gift -- Anne Rice
   
5. Animal Dreams -- Barbara Kingsolver
   
6. The Accursed -- Joyce Carol Oates
   
7. Into the Still Blue -- Veronica Rossi
   
8. The Alchemist -- Paolo Coelho
   
9. Medium Raw -- Anthony Bourdain
   
10. Twisted Sisters -- Jen Lancaster
    
11. Cry, the ( Read more... )

I started reading Outlander. OMG.

I am officially not altering my wedding dress.  Like.  At all.  The hem is perfect with my heels and we're not dancing, so screw a bustle.  It's the tiniest bit too big in the bust, but I decided a good strapless bra and a pair of chicken cutlets that I can use again are a better investment than the cost to bring it in.  The only thing wardrobe- ( Read more... )

I haven't worn makeup for a while because, really, what have I been doing lately that requires me to look good? But in a fit of boredom I slapped my usual Bare Minerals on yesterday before I met Stephie and her mom for dinner at Panera. Except after I got back home and washed my face, I realized that under the makeup my skin had turned all red ( Read more... )

A Practical Wedding -- Meg Keene
My Horizontal Life -- Chelsea Handler
Yesterday's News -- Kajsa Ingemarsson
The Casual Vacancy -- J.K. Rowling
The Art of Fielding -- Chad Harbach
Seriously... I'm Kidding -- Ellen DeGeneres
Beautiful Creatures -- Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl
Beautiful Darkness -- Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl
Beautiful Chaos -- ( Read more... )

( Necklace dilemma. )