Friendship and bookstores, from Prairie Lights to City Lights

Iowa City, Iowa. The location of the infamous Iowa Writer's Workshop. Also the location of Prairie Lights Bookstore, a charming, 3-story bookstore (with coffee shop) where I reunited with a friend I hadn't seen in over a year. Both being book lovers, and Iowa City being (kinda, sorta, actually not at all) equidistant from our…

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Review: The Underground Storyteller

The Underground Storyteller by Alex Day. Alex Day, 2014. The concept of this book can be summed up very quickly: A guy decided that he wanted to stop at every single station on the London Underground and wrote a book about his experience. As you may or may not know, Alex Day is a famous…

Books by Youtubers

Recently, I've become fascinated with books written by Youtubers I enjoy. It all started when I heard that Hannah Hart had written a book version of her show, "My Drunk Kitchen." Since then, I've done some searching as to what other Youtubers have books out and have started to read more. Here is my list,…

Printer’s Row 2015

Chicago had a great day for Printer's Row 2015 on Saturday - the largest outdoor lit fest in the Midwest! This is my second year going, and it was equally as awesome as the first. But I didn't go to any of the events this time; I just spent hours upon hours browsing through the…

The Tattered Cover

Now that it's summer, I'm hoping to do a lot of blogging and catching up on old blogs I'd meant to write but didn't. This is one of them. A year ago I visited Colorado, where my college roommate grew up, and asked her to take me to The Tattered Cover - a bookstore she…