Larry’s Girls, Thomas Green Jr.

So, Larry’s Girls by Thomas Green Jr. was an interesting book. This was this year’s gag gift from my mother, and what a gag it was. We all know how much I love reading and she said she bought this book to “Help a brotha out”. After reading this book I can see that he is going to need all the help he can get. It was not just the typos, repeated paragraphs and pages, run on sentences, and all around mess of the book that made it bad. It was the “story” line. When the author described it to my mother he said that it was book that would suit a college educated woman due to the fact that it is set in a college scene. Well, I don’t know how many college educated women that he has talked to, but this was not suitable.

It was mainly about sex of college coeds and so called “relationships” that happen in those types of situations. Granted the book took me a day to read in between getting calls at my clinical site, so it was not difficult to read at all. Well, except for getting confused that there were repeated paragraphs and pages, that I think were supposed to be the same…? I’m not sure. If you want to “help a brotha out” then by all means get this book and read it, but if not…. then don’t. Until next time,

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School makes me want to read less….

With the large amount of reading that I have had to do for school this year, I’ve actually resorted to thumbing through magazines to do something different. Now, I did not read magazines through out high school, and just started to indulge in them in college. I now am a subscriber to three magazines I believe. The only problem with that is, that I now have all of these magazines around my room, unread, because I don’t even have time for those! No wonder my brain is fried without any type of creative or imaginary things running rampant through it. I mean it’s not crazy to want to lose yourself into a different world right? To just take a break from everything that is around you and escape without the cost of a vacation… that’s okay right?

Well I’m saying that it is okay, and I’m going to find a way to do more of it, but until that time, I guess I’m glad that it’s summer vacation!! Time to read all I want and to do it outside in the sun. Until next time,

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Sarah Dessen came to Pittsburgh!!!

As I said in my video blog. Sarah Dessen came to Pittsburgh!! As we all know she is my favorite author of all time and I was so excited to see her! Unfortunately I was not able to stay and get an autograph or a picture with her, but I did muster up the courage to ask her a question.

During her time on stage she dropped hints, or really flat out told us that she is having another book come out in the summer of this year and of course we were all excited to here the news! She told us what inspired her to write another book and that’s where I got the question of asking her what inspired her to write her first novel, That Summer.

Her answer basically was that she liked the idea of a young woman who was different than everyone else, her being very tall, but comfortable with it. Because Sarah Dessen herself wasn’t comfortable in high school like many others, and some of her inspiration came from one of the players on the UNC Women’s Basketball team.

What I also love about her is that she writes what she wants to write. She told us that she doesn’t read other Young Adult authors because she really doesn’t want to know and doesn’t want to start comparing herself to others. She also doesn’t really watch MTV and other things like that, but she honestly writes what she wants and feels, and I really admire that as a reader.

Sarah Dessen continues to be my favorite as I grow up and I can’t wait to read her next book over the summer when I have a lot of time to read it.

Until Next Time,

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In Search of Sisterhood, Paula Giddings

So, first let me proclaim that I am guilty of not actually finishing the whole book… I just didn’t have time to!

I will say that if you are looking to become a member of the illustrious sorority of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc, it is a good place to start to learn about some of the women, 22 founders to be exact, and what they did to start this sorority.

I will also say that it is a difficult read, dry, making you not want to read it and just kind of lear what you know from everyone else who is already apart of the sorority.

A little shameless plug for me, I just became a part of this wonderful sorority, Spring ’13 a part of Mu Chapter at the University of Pittsburgh!!

Until Next Time,

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And a special OOOOOOOO-OOOOP!!! To my Sorors!

Video Blogging…!…?

So, I’m thinking that I need to start a YouTube channel. Maybe that will help me out. I’m terrible at getting the word out about my blog. So, maybe bringing it to the sort of non reading world will help out my case. It’s kind of awkward because I’ve never shown my face until now, but I’ll try to get over it. Look for it in my tweets @90sbornreader our find my youtube page… also 90sbornreader. It will take some time to really build up my youtube page, but my blog took the same amount of time. Thanks! Check out my first post here!

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Movies…the visual’s book

Not only do I love books, but I love movies as well. Especially books that have been turned into movies. I love to see exactly, or almost exactly, what the author had intended for his or her characters. What they looked like, how they move and how they react to different things.

Movies to me are similar to books in that they let you escape to a different place. You know you’re in a movie theater or on your couch, but for those 2 hours you are apart of that movie and what those characters are going through. What I like about books instead is that I can make up what the characters look like, and they affect me differently because it’s how I see the characters. Also I can put down the book when I don’t have time to read it. Unlike a movie I need to make sure that I have enough time to see it all or I get anxious about not seeing the whole thing.

What I always like to do is to attempt to read the book before I see the movie, especially if I was somehow unaware that there is a book. If I’ve read the book then sometimes I try to reread it, but that can be asking a little too much.

If you’ve noticed, if I have read the book and seen the movie I try to do a side by side post about it, so look out for those, and let me know what books I need to read, or what movies I need to see. Netflix and I are good friends!

Most of all though I have seen so many movie and plan on seeing so many more. Like The Hobbit, Life of Pi, and of course James Bond. Now that exams are over I might actually get to do that, and sit in my bed and read some books. Look out for my posts!

Until Next Time,

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FINALS WEEK!!!!!

So of course we know the most stressful part of any person in school’s life is finals week. Teachers and parents a like try and tell you that it’s just a review of what you learned during the school year, but that kind of logic makes no sense to us at the time. Instead we stay up late, do all nighters (mmm not me), mainline caffeine (that’s more my style), and possibly have a couple of panic attacks just to get through the exam. Then afterwards, we walk out of their with different opinions.

The Show Off: “Oh, that was so easy, I don’t even know why I studied”

The Relief: “Oh my goodness I’m so glad that’s over with I thought I was going to lose it!”

The Caffeine Addict: “During the whole exam I couldn’t stop twitching, thank goodness that’s over with so I can go to bed”

The Alcoholic: “So who’s ready to hit the bar”

And so on and so forth, there are so many types of people at the end of the exam, but at the beginning we’re in the same boat. Missing notes, can’t find handouts, don’t remember the hundreds of page numbers you had to learn and you continue to ask yourself, “Why did I pick this major?!”

In my major our lives are a little different. Yes, we have exams, but also have clinical hours. Now no we’re not nurses, we’re not pharmacists, and we’re not doctors, we’re training to be paramedics, so that means our clinical hours are a little different.

They can happen at any 24 hours time period of the day, any day of the week including weekends, and if they’re not done they can take over your holidays. You also have to see patients and interact with them as well. of course we all love this program and we cherish the hands on experience, but you haven’t seen tired until you’ve seen a medic student, who then has about 6-7  exams in 2 days.

But we’re in the Emergency field right? We should be able to handle stress right? WRONG! We’re still students, so school is still the most stressful thing in our lives. Saving lives, we’re good at and we have confidence in ourselves, testing and GPAs… that’s a different story.

Now that exams are over though we’re ready to take a breather and then get on to the next semester to start all over again. Any good stress relievers out there?

Until Next Time

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