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 Casey Murphy hails from New Jersey. She has been writing fiction since the 5th grade, and loved writing so much she decided to pursue it as a career. With a B.A in English Writing under her belt, she strives to follow her passion wherever it takes her. In her spare time she can be found reading or listening to rock n’ roll on her Zune. If you have suggestions for a Miss A book, movie, or TV review, please contact Casey at murphcas89@gmail.com. |
 
If both your inner English teacher and psychologist are looking for something they’ll enjoy, The Stranger by Albert Camus may just be a good choice. Photo Credit: amazon.com A French novel first published in English in 1946, The Stranger was an instant classic. The story follows an ordinary man, Meursault, through his first [...] 
Photo Credit: Victor de Mello/Decca Before there was Adele, Katy Perry, or any of the dozens of female singer-songwriters currently on the music scene, there was Tori Amos. Since the early 1990′s, Tori Amos has paved the way for female composers and songstresses, enchanting millions of audiences around the world with her [...] 
Photo Credit: Amazon.com So you really like music. I mean, really like music. To the point where you dictate what your friends should listen to and cringe at the thought of anything mainstream. If the first thing you do when you meet a guy is scroll through his iPod to see what his [...] 
“The book was so much better.” This is a common statement heard when avid readers come walking out of the theaters or after the credits are rolling on their TVs. In the last few years, Hollywood has been making more and more movies off of books, which can be a good thing or a [...] 
Photo Credit: amazon.com Virginia Woolf is one of the best female authors of the twentieth century. She has a very distinct style of writing, and tends to go more toward experimental, using stream of consciousness as her main form of style. In The Waves, Woolf brings storytelling to an [...] 
Photo Credit: Amazon.com First loves tend to leave an impression forever. With first loves we experience a lot of emotions that we never thought we could feel before about another person. Whether the impressions first loves leave are good or bad, they impact our lives and help shape us into who we are [...] 
(Photo Credit: Amazon.com) Everyone has their secrets, and secrets are meant to be kept to ourselves, right? Not according to Frank Warren, who is the creator of PostSecret. When Frank Warren decided to hand out postcards to strangers in November 2004, inviting them to share one secret on it and then mail it [...] 
(Photo Credit: amazon.com) J.D. Salinger has become a staple in many schools. By the time students reach college, they have at least read Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye, but it’s pretty rare that many people read past that. Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour—An Introduction are two of Salinger’s shorter [...] 
(Photo Credit: Amazon.com) “When people make you feel small, it means they shrink you down close to nothing, diminish you.” This opening line prepares the reader for the harrowing tale of a teenage girl trying to find her place in the world. Or at least in high school. Big Girl Small by Rachel [...] 
Although the outside temperature would like to tell you otherwise, fall is on its way, and with fall comes a new lineup of books for the season. While summer tends to be the big reading season, and with beach trips and the possibility of a more relaxed work schedule it’s easy to see why. [...] |
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October 2nd, 2011 
