Critiquette
Review of Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers

Review of Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers

Having read Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking and Outliers: The Story of Success, I was curious to read Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers: The Story of Success to discover how it compared to his previous books, the first of which I enjoyed the second not so much. I must say that similar to his other [...]

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TV Review: On the Road with Austin and Santino

TV Review: On the Road with Austin and Santino

As a long time Project Runway fan,  I couldn’t resist the opportunity to watch their latest programming spawn, On the Road with Austin and Santino. The show takes former Project Runway contestants and designers, Austin Scarlett and Santino Rice, and sends them on a road trip to bring high fashion clothing to various places across [...]

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Review of Rachel Greenwald’s Find A Husband After 35

Review of Rachel Greenwald’s Find A Husband After 35

I recently tried to read Rachel Greenwald’s Find a Husband After 35: (Using What I Learned at Harvard Business School), but couldn’t due to all the ridiculously absurd advice. I would love my time and my ten bucks back. Like the equally horrible Meeting Your Half-Orange: An Utterly Upbeat Guide to Using Dating Optimism to [...]

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Review of Adoring Ten Ways to Be Adored When Landing A Lord

Review of Adoring Ten Ways to Be Adored When Landing A Lord

What happens when a dashing lord meets a lovely lady, and both are swimming in a sea of secrets and doubt? Delicious banter, a touching romance capped by sizzling sex and a satisfyingly sigh-worthy ending. Ten Ways to Be Adored When Landing a Lord“by Sarah MacLean surpassed my expectations as a sweet, original follow-up to [...]

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Review of Pat Conroy’s Beach Music

Review of Pat Conroy’s Beach Music

I just finished reading Pat Conroy’s Beach Music: A Novel. I’m not sure I’ve ever read a book over 750 pages, but I have to say I loved how long this book was because it felt like the stories would never end. I’m not sure there is another writer alive today who knows how to [...]

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Review of A Year in the World By Frances Mayes

Review of A Year in the World By Frances Mayes

You may be familiar with Frances Mayes, as he is the author of Under the Tuscan Sun
which was also made into a movie. I just finished reading his book,  A Year in the World: Journeys of A Passionate Traveller, which is the perfect book for a staycation or to revisit places you have traveled in [...]

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TNT Giveaways Day 3: Jada Pinkett-Smith’s Hawthorne

TNT Giveaways Day 3: Jada Pinkett-Smith’s Hawthorne

Day 3 of the Turner Network Television Giveaway is here! Today’s featured show is Hawthorne, starring one of my fave celebrities, Jada Pinkett-Smith. It’s time for a little trivia. Name three movies that Jada played in and be the first to post about it! The winner will receive a comfy pair of Hawthorne scrubs, a [...]

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Book Review: Eat Your Way to Happiness

Book Review: Eat Your Way to Happiness

While seeing a personal trainer to get fit for my wedding day, I had mentioned to her that I am constantly battling my weight, an issue only complicated by my taking various anti-depression and anti-anxiety medications over the years. Paired with numerous side-effects such as restless leg syndrome, I really needed a healthy, natural, common sense method [...]

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Turner Network Television: Week of Giveaways Day 2

Turner Network Television: Week of Giveaways Day 2

Guess what? It’s Day 2 of the fabulous giveaway with Turner Network Television. Judge me if you want, but I am incredibly excited about today’s featured television show Memphis Beat and the great giveaway. Okay, so why am I so excited? Because, earlier this summer the Memphis Beat staff and truck was in Chicago, in [...]

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Turner Network Television: Week of Giveways Day 1

Turner Network Television: Week of Giveways Day 1

This week, we will be bringing you the scoop on an awesome line-up of shows on Turner Network Television (TNT) as well as providing YOU with the opportunity to win fabulous giveaways each day of this week. Today’s giveaway is a copy of the book The Apprentice by Tess Gerritsen. The first Miss A reader [...]

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