Shelf Life

As Thomas Jefferson said, "I cannot live without books". A blog about books and my reading experiences. Reviews, interpretations, thoughts, inputs, recommendations, suggestions, and the likes. Enjoy!

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Secrets are Lies and Privacy is Theft: The Circle Review

The Circle, Dave Eggers satire on our need to know everything, is an eerie and accurate picture of a future not far from our own. With technology constantly improving and the ease at which we can a...

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Tis the season #hotchcolate #book #readyplayerone #read #relax #Sunday

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Walk into Barnes and noble to buy a gift and leave with three #books for myself #readerprobs #read #barnesandnoble #treatyoself

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Reality Is Overrated: Ready Player One Review

Reality is boring, wouldn’t you rather be able to do the stuff your dreams are made of? Why waste time in a world ravaged by poverty and a growing energy crisis when you can put on a visor and esca...

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Don't Panic! : A review of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

You ever get the feeling that your whole life is the punchline of someone's joke? Douglas Adams assures us that it is and the whole universe is just a big laugh. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galax...

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Change the Ending: My Thoughts on Mockingjay Part 1 and YA Fiction in General

Let me start off by saying I am a fan of The Hunger Games. This is my general frustration which all fans of everything have, nothing is perfect. Over the weekend I saw Mockingjay Part I, my thought...

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The Shining: Book Review

“Sometimes human places, create inhuman monsters.”Stephen King, The Shining So even though it's a week later, I'm all finished with my final book for my Halloween Activities, The Shining. This migh...

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So I realized not enough of my guy friends read so I decided I needed to fix that. Here's my attempt...it went not horrible,?

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I enjoy a good conspiracy theory, and while Bad Pharma was not so much a conspiracy, it was an entertaining, and often horrifying, look at the pharmaceutical industry. I came across this book after...

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Dark Places: Review

Over the summer I read Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl. I actually wound up reading it because I was on vacation and finished everything I brought so I started reading what my other family members brough...

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Salem's Lot: Review

As my second “Halloween Read” I read ‘Salem’s Lot by Stephen King. Personally, I’m not a big fan of vampires since the paranormal romance genre emerged and everything is vampires now, but I was gla...

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I stopped reading the Night Land over the weekend. Aside from being written in older English, the book is just poorly written. The entire story is told in the past tense so the reader feels distant...

I use to have this "thing" where I wouldn't quit reading a book no matter what. Sometimes I would result in speed reading it (which honestly doesn't count as reading it when your scanning pages and flipping faster than our eyes move) but I realized this weekend, there's no point. I'm free to pick and choose what I want and I should put myself through something painful just cause I spent $8 on it. So what?

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Shelf Life: A Memoir

I took a creative writing class my last semester of college. One of the first assignments I had was to write a creative nonfiction piece about myself. I choose to tell a part of my life through the...

If you can't already tell the title was inspired by this blog. It was really cool being able to write this. I think it gives a little insight into my personal connection with books and why I love reading

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For to adventure is the lust of Youth; and to leave Safety is the natural waywardness of the spirit…

The Night Land by William Hope Hodgson

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I received $120 in Amazon gift cards for test driving cars...translation: I have $120 to spend on new books

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Would you accept a dinner invite from Dr. Lecter?

If you were promised the most elegant, fancy, delectable dining experience of your life would you accept the invitation? If you like food of course you would. If it exceeded expectations would you ...

Here's my latest book review on Hannibal by Thomas Harris

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October in the Chair

It’s been a while. Too long. I just noticed the other day that I started this blog about a year ago just around this time. I also haven’t posted since April, yikes. In case you were wondering, the ...

Check out my latest post. I'm gonna try and update a lot more most of my book related things will appear here from now on. hope you enjoy!