Book Review Professional Geeks Unite Book Review: Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me (And Other Concerns) by Mindy Kaling With this, it becomes official. It has been whispered in the hallways of your work or school, you have remarked on it over drinks. But with the publication of Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me (And By Duana • Nov 07, 2011 02:20 pm
Book Review Going to The Night Circus Book Review: The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern I’ve been thinking here in the Maldives how much I would have enjoyed The Night Circus on the beach. How I would have ripped through it the way a beach book should read. How it would have possibly cost me a By Lainey • Nov 04, 2011 12:19 pm
Book Review Granny Freeze and The Family Fang Have you read Kevin Wilson’s The Family Fang? I finished it a few weeks ago. It is hilariously imagined, hysterical in parts, and uncomfortably disturbing throughout: the Fangs are already a reality; you can see it on TV. And worse still, though perhaps that’s the point, people can’ By Lainey • Oct 28, 2011 11:26 am
Book Review All Time Reads Not meant to be a classics list (there are more than enough of those), but a catalogue of (for the most part) modern reads that will be parked on my bookshelf forever. And like the Freebie Five, it will be shifted, adjusted, and modified accordingly. Would love to know your By Lainey • Oct 05, 2011 11:05 pm
Book Review Sloppy Casting Sometimes the good just keeps on coming. I’m so happy for all of you who love Sloppy Firsts, who have been celebratey with us or who have discovered it for the first time. And now – now, there’s a movie in the works. If you haven’t heard, Megan By Duana • Aug 30, 2011 05:15 am
Book Review Jessica Darling is 10 Those of you familiar with the Jessica Darling series, by Megan McCafferty, need no introduction. Those of you who’ve been through my book section will know that McCafferty’s Sloppy Firsts, and all that came after, is on the list of my All Time Reads. And this month, Sloppy By Lainey • Aug 22, 2011 02:44 am
Book Review Dystopia is the new Vampire: DIVERGENT A book review Divergent by Veronica Roth For a while there, we were inundated with vampires. Pop culture everywhere. But The Hunger Games is now the new It franchise. And on its heels, it’s Dystopia everywhere. Is the future so bleak? Are we driving ourselves down into a sh-t By Lainey • Apr 25, 2011 02:43 am
Book Review The Glory of Not Giving A Damn “Bossypants” as primer for life Review by Duana Tina Fey tells a story of meeting a little boy when ‘meeting the teacher’ for kindergarten. They were told to draw pictures, and when she showed hers to him, like, ‘look what I did!’ he ripped it. And she says that, though By Lainey • Apr 12, 2011 04:53 am
Book Review Girlfriends & Bossypants I’m now on my second reading of Tina Fey’s Bossypants. And I think I’ll have to download the audiobook when I get home because… Tina Fey reading to me? Please. All over it. Will help on the goddamn Grouse Grind when I start hitting that bitch soon By Lainey • Apr 11, 2011 02:51 am
Book Review Anne after the Oscars It’s almost been a week. Are we over it yet? She’s getting over it. And in these photos she’s on her way, with her boyfriend Adam, to London from LAX, reasons unknown, so let me make a totally uneducated assumption and say reshoots for One Day? Maybe By Lainey • Mar 04, 2011 08:22 am
Book Review Your Voice In My Head At 16 she was writing her own column for the Sunday Times. She was contributing to the Guardian by the age of 21. And Vogue, and Vanity Fair, and the Independent. At 22 she published her first book. It was very well received. Two more followed. Those were acclaimed too. By Lainey • Feb 07, 2011 07:23 am
Book Review Room book review I tore through this book in a day. Then I thought about it for days. I am still thinking about it. Strangely, and not by design, three of my friends happened to read it at the same time. And we had to discuss it too. On the phone, over email, By Lainey • Dec 14, 2010 03:45 am
Book Review I Don’t Want to be Her Big Sister. Written by Duana I was a Brenda Walsh fan. I wanted to be her. She was sassy, stand-up-to-parents-y, super hair and didn’t take crap. Plus it wasn’t just Brenda, it was so clearly Shannen Doherty herself. They were one and the same, and the fact that Doherty was By Lainey • Nov 12, 2010 07:30 am
Book Review My Katniss Jodelle Ferland dressed up as Katniss Everdeen for Halloween and posted the photo up on Twitter the other day (click here to see) and everyone lost their sh-t wondering if she’d been cast as the heroine of The Hunger Games. I’m sure she’s a lovely girl, but By Lainey • Nov 02, 2010 09:35 am
Book Review Anne wins Emmy, rides bike Anne Hathaway is an Emmy Award winner now, receiving the Creative Arts Emmy for Best Voice-Over Performance in The Simpsons this weekend. There is already talk that Anne’s work in Love & Other Drugs could be considered for an Oscar nomination. And you know she is trained for the By Lainey • Aug 23, 2010 04:26 am
Book Review Great Skin & Gay YA As you know, I am all about reading YA. As I’ve noted, too many times, YA is way underrated. Good YA is as profound, complex, and insightful as any “adult” classified counterpart and again, if you don’t believe me, check out The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (YA) By Lainey • Aug 19, 2010 05:51 am
