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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Ponderings about Social Media

I have been drawn to re-reading some of the classics lately and one that I decided on was the Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson. And this time, I decided to go with the audiobook version of it read by Richard Armitage. For those of you unfamiliar with the novella, the story follows a lawyer by the name of Gabriel Utterson who comes to hear of a violent man Mr. Hyde committing a series of heinous crimes and is somehow under the protection of the highly respectable Dr. Jekyll. As the story unfolds, we…

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TV Shows

First Impressions: The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel

Welcome to the first installment of a brand new series on the blog! First Impressions is where we watch the pilot episode of a show or read the first chapter of a book and let you know our first impressions on whether we would continue so you don’t have to! This first post is on the series The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel which came to screens almost exactly a year ago in March 2017. The pilot episode introduces the show by showing what happens to a perfectionist, Type A, Jewish house wife with a pep in her step, from the Upper…

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Books

5 Ways to Enjoy Books this Summer!

The days are getting longer, the heat is starting to creep in and the sun is finally coming out! Finally! It sure has taken its sweet time. And now all I want to do is spend as much time as I can outside, enjoying everything that I missed throughout this long winter. And because of that, I almost feel guilty spending any time reading during the summer. For avid readers like myself this is a conundrum I face every year. How to still get time to read and make the most of summer before the cold of winter sets in…

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