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Misty water-colored memories…. (CBR12Bingo 2: Nostalgia)

Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell

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So, this book is set in 2011, and I was getting married that year at age 25. Not strictly my teen years. However, I’m counting it for two reasons – 1) 9/11/2001 is key to the plot, when I was an actual sophomore in high school, and 2) though the Harry Potter books exist in this universe, Simon Snow is very very very obviously a Harry Potter analogue, and the penultimate book in that series was released in 2005, when I was in my first […]

Work, Love, and Politics

Special Interests by Emma Barry

Private Politics by Emma Barry

Party Lines by Emma Barry

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This review is going to be a lot about me, but in case this becomes a tl/dr situation – I enjoyed these books very much and you might too. I miss living in Washington DC so much. I miss the person I was trying to be in my late 20s-early 30s. I love a lot about who I am now, but I don’t feel like I personally can make the world a better place anymore. Reading Emma Barry’s The Easy Part series, Special Interests, Private […]

No One Sings Like You Anymore

Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge by Mark Yarm

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Two things relating to the music I liked back then happenend in 1994 that left a deep impression on teenage me. In April, Kurt Cobain died, and I was absolutely shocked and remained glued to MTV for days. Like so many others, I had become a grunge fan when I discovered Nevermind, and I could not quite grasp that he had shot himself. A few weeks later I bought Soundgarden’s Superunknown which just blew my mind with the insane guitar tunings they used, the incredible […]

The Perks of No Longer Being a Teenager

The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

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Oh, this book. I treated it like a sacred text back in high school. I gave it regular re-reads through the beginning of college, but then I let it fade into the background. It used to be my “Fall” book (despite it covering an entire school year) and while I continued to think back on fondly, I started to replace that nostalgia drip with the character-created playlists from within the book. It’s been years since I last picked it up, but Ride’s “Vapour Trail” creeps […]

Very unlike my own adolescence

Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging by Louise Rennison

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#CBR12 Bingo: Nostalgia (set in the 1990s, when I was a teenager) Official book description: Angus: My mixed-breed cat, half domestic tabby, half Scottish wildcat. The size of a small Labrador, only mad.   Thongs: Stupid underwear. What’s the point of them, anyway? They just go up your bum, as far as I can tell.   Full-Frontal Snogging: Kissing with all the trimmings, lip to lip, open mouth, tongues … everything.   Her dad’s got the mentality of a Teletubby (only not so developed). Her cat, […]



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