In high school, I made tea for my girlfriend, who wasn’t feeling well. At the time, I ripped open teabags and put the leaves in the water alone, because in my mind, the paper would just sort of... dissolve in the liquid, right? And you just tried not to drink the leafy bits.

Fun story: My husband was taking our 6yo daughter to see his father for two days without me. The night before they left he asked me, “Have you packed her stuff?” Um... no. My favorite answer to this is, “What would you do if I was dead?” He said, “I’d just go to WalMart once we get to our destination and buy her what…

I liked it a great deal. And the thing is, a lot of the way she was treated in the movie felt less like a comment about how women are treated if they aren’t conventionally gorgeous, and more a comment on how women are treated if we dare explicitly love ourselves and trumpet it loudly. Like the Inside Amy Schumer…

A Hole Vera

I loved where the heart is. 

What an egotistical jerk. I would totally not call him again after the sex.

I would murder him.

Absolutely true. Also applies to white people and racism.

Yes, she is the narrator!  I have not listened or read Children of Blood and Bone, but when I do get to it perhaps I’ll choose audio then!  I’m waiting till the series is complete.

Even in its partially unfinished state I’ll be Gone in the Dark is one of the best true crime novels I’ve ever read.  I’m shocked it’s is not on this list.

Unfortunately The Immortalists fell short for me too.  Dread Nation I liked, but didn’t love--there were parts that felt too slow, parts that felt too fast.  The pacing felt off in some way.  The narrator was an absolute delight.  I do plan on reading the sequel as I thought there was enough there that I enjoyed and…

A couple of debut novels really blew me away this year: BABY TEETH by Zoje Stage and CHERRY by Nico Walker.

I also enjoy the fact that every time a major figure dies (political or otherwise) the big question is will Dump even be invited?

Michelle was, is, and always will be Queen Everything.

I think at this point we should probably just assume that if you see a man on TV, he’s probably sexually assaulted someone.

(“Philadelphos,” more of a nickname, meaning “lover of his sister,” which, honestly, makes us look at Philadelphia in a whole new light)

It has been suggested that a fair amount of time “son” and “daughter” was more of an honorific term for someone brought under the care of the father rather than an actual blood relative. Sometimes daughter may have meant the child of favorite mistress, so it may have meant a half-sister to a pharaoh, or even the child…

Psst, it should be “Move over, Targaryens”.

That last quote gets even stupider:

Her constituents did that already.