The Desert of My Dreams

I can’t sleep so I’m going to blog in the hopes that I’ll get tired enough to fall back asleep! Last night, I finished reading Half-Assed by Jennette Fulda. It is a weight loss memoir that I stumbled upon last weekend at Borders (apparently there is a whole genre of weight loss memoirs). […]

I first read Gina Kolata’s Rethinking Thin about two years ago. I was thinking about the book recently and wondered how I’d interpret it now, after having spent the last two years focusing on nothing else but losing weight. I reread it over the weekend and came away with different conclusions and rebuttals.
Rethinking […]

During my two years of grad school, I did a lot of reading but none of it was reading that I had selected. I’m not saying that it wasn’t quality reading but being required to read massive amounts of academic research papers really changed my perspective on reading. I’ve always loved reading but […]

I finished reading The Catcher in the Rye last week. It was really really good. I never got to read it in high school because my junior year English teacher was too preoccupied with her personal life (no kidding . . . she was getting a messy divorce). It was too bad […]