• Books

    Books of 2015

    2015 was a great year for books in my life. Unfortunately, I didn’t reach my goal of reading 50 books, but there’s always next year! For now, here’s what I did manage to read in 365 days… 1. Play the King by Michael Dobbs 2. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by Frank L. Baum 3. Planet of the Apes By Pierre Boulle 4. The Hot Zone by Richard Preston 5. The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien 6. Yes Please by Amy Poehler 7. The Time Machine by H. G. Wells 8. Unbroken by Laura Hilenbrand 9. The Invisible Man by H. G. Wells 10. Wild by Cheryl Strayed 11.…

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    Everyone Probably Is Hanging Out Without You

    I finished Mindy Kaling’s book, “Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?” recently, and I have to say I was a little disappointed. I had heard so many good things about it, and I just didn’t think it was the great. Maybe it’s because I read it so long after it was published, or maybe it’s because I’ve never gotten into “The Office”, but I didn’t like this book as much as I wanted to. (And I loved Amy Poehler’s book, so I thought I would love this too.) 1. I feel like she thinks she’s all that and a bag of chips.  She would talk about episodes of “The Office” and…