These Books Among Us

The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan (342 pages) My Rating: 2 Stars Date Read: 5 May 2016 Synopsis: The Pilgrim's Progress has inspired readers for over three centuries. It is one of the best-loved and most widely read books in English literature and is a classic of the heroic Puritan tradition and a founding text in the development of the English novel. The story of Christian, whose pilgrimage takes him through the Slough of Despond, Vanity Fair, and the Delectable Mountains, is full of danger and adventure. Together with his trusty companions, Faithful and Hopeful, he encounters many enemies--the foul fiend Apollyon, Judge Hategood, Giant Despair of Doubting Castle--before finally arriving at the Celestial City. Bunyan's own experience of religious persecution informs his story, and its qualities of psychological realism, and the beauty and simplicity of his prose combine to create a book whose appeal is universal. This edition includes the illustrations that

Purgatorio by Dante Alighieri (416 pages) My Rating: 4 Stars Date Read: 28 April 2016 Synopsis: Dante (1265-1321) is the greatest of Italian poets and his DIVINE COMEDY is the finest of all Christian allegories. To the consternation of his more academic admirers, who believed Latin to be the only proper language for dignified verse, Dante wrote his COMEDY in colloquial Italian, wanting it to be a poem for the common reader. My Review: I enjoyed reading this part of the Divine Comedy the most so far. In Purgatory, there seem to be even more historical connections, but instead of telling them that they have no redeeming qualities, there is more a theme of hope. It was refreshing to see that not everything was just damnation and a lack of sorrow. There was actual repentance in what they had done. Plus, Virgil gets put in his place more often in this part because he does not really know Purgatory as well as he knew Hell. It was interesting to see how Hell and Purgatory were s

Border Bandits: Hollywood on the Southern Frontier by Camilla Fojas (249 pages) My Rating: 3 Stars Date Read: 27 April 2016 Synopsis: This title is an examination of how major Hollywood films exploit the border between Mexico and the United States to tell a story about US dominance in the Western hemisphere. My Rating: This book primarily focused on films set on the border of California and Mexico, specifically in Los Angeles and San Diego. Again, it was interesting to see how films document or change real life in their creations. Immigrants who want to get into the industry are often type casted and not given many opportunities to do much else. Some of the films discussed touched on that subject. This book focused less on the crossing of borders than what happens after. Fojas wanted to inform her readers about the struggles immigrants continuously have to deal with even after they get across the border. The chapter that was most interesting to me would have to be

Culture Across Borders: Mexican Immigration and Popular Culture by David R. Maciel and Maria Herrera-Sobek (272 pages) My Rating: 3 Stars Date Read: 27 April 2016 Synopsis: For as long as Mexicans have emigrated to the United States they have responded creatively to the challenges of making a new home. But although historical, sociological, and other aspects of Mexican immigration have been widely studied, its cultural and artistic manifestations have been largely overlooked by scholars—even though Mexico has produced the greatest number of cultural works inspired by the immigration process. And recently Chicana/o artists have addressed immigration as a central theme in their cultural productions and motifs. Culture across Borders is the first and only book-length study to analyze a wide range of cultural manifestations of the immigration experience, including art, literature, cinema, corridos, and humor. It shows how Mexican immigrants have been depicted in popular cult

An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir (446 pages) My Rating: 5 Stars Date Read: 26 April 2016 Synopsis: Laia is a slave. Elias is a soldier. Neither is free. Under the Martial Empire, defiance is met with death. Those who do not vow their blood and bodies to the Emperor risk the execution of their loved ones and the destruction of all they hold dear. It is in this brutal world, inspired by ancient Rome, that Laia lives with her grandparents and older brother. The family ekes out an existence in the Empire’s impoverished backstreets. They do not challenge the Empire. They’ve seen what happens to those who do. But when Laia’s brother is arrested for treason, Laia is forced to make a decision. In exchange for help from rebels who promise to rescue her brother, she will risk her life to spy for them from within the Empire’s greatest military academy. There, Laia meets Elias, the school’s finest soldier—and secretly, its most unwilling. Elias wants only to be free of th

Soundless by Richelle Mead (268 pages) My Rating: 3.5 Stars Date Read: 14 April 2016 Synopsis: In a village without sound… For as long as Fei can remember, no one in her village has been able to hear. Rocky terrain and frequent avalanches make it impossible to leave the village, so Fei and her people are at the mercy of a zipline that carries food up the treacherous cliffs from Beiguo, a mysterious faraway kingdom. When villagers begin to lose their sight, deliveries from the zipline shrink. Many go hungry. Fei and all the people she loves are plunged into crisis, with nothing to look forward to but darkness and starvation. One girl hears a call to action… Until one night, Fei is awoken by a searing noise. Sound becomes her weapon. She sets out to uncover what’s happened to her and to fight the dangers threatening her village. A handsome miner with a revolutionary spirit accompanies Fei on her quest, bringing with him new risks and the possibility of romance. They e

Inferno by Dante Alighieri (394 pages) My Rating: 4 Stars Date Finished: 13 April 2016 Synopsis: In this superb translation of the Inferno, Allen Mendelbaum brings to life for contemporary readers the first and most famous part of Dante's Divine Comedy: the poet's classic journey through the underworld. Here is Dante at his ribald, shocking, and demonic best as he describes in unforgettably vivid detail his harrowing descent to the very bottom of Hell. Filled with politics and philosophy, humor and horror, the Inferno is an epic poem at once personal and universal that provides a darkly illuminating view into our present world no less than Dante's own. For as we're lead to the last circle of the Inferno we recognize the very worst in human nature...and the ever-abiding potential for redemption. Complete with an introduction and commentary, this definitive dual-language edition is unsurpassed for its clarity, beauty, and faithfulness to the original. My Review

The Country Wife by William Wycherley (204 pages) My Rating: 4 Stars Date Read: 10 April 2016 Synopsis: 'Cuckolds like lovers should themselves deceive' So concludes one of Wycherley's most revived and much discussed plays. It is a satirical comedy sharply focussed on the follies, vices and hypocrisies of Restoration London through its central characters: the desperate Pinchwife; his naive wife; the sex-obsessed Horner and Lady Fidget's 'virtuous gang' of town ladies. Wycherley's strong wit informs almost every speech and his alarmingly familiar revelations of character leave us to draw our own conclusions. It remains a controversial play, admired as satire or farce, condemned as immoral and frivolous, and appreciated again as a serious work of dramatic art. Modern critics have much debated its central themes, and question marks remain: is Horner hero or villain? This student edition contains a fully annotated version of the playtext in moder

The Wrath and the Dawn by Renee Ahdieh (404 pages) My Rating: 4.5 Stars Date Read: 6 April 2016 Synopsis: One Life to One Dawn. In a land ruled by a murderous boy-king, each dawn brings heartache to a new family. Khalid, the eighteen-year-old Caliph of Khorasan, is a monster. Each night he takes a new bride only to have a silk cord wrapped around her throat come morning. When sixteen-year-old Shahrzad's dearest friend falls victim to Khalid, Shahrzad vows vengeance and volunteers to be his next bride. Shahrzad is determined not only to stay alive, but to end the caliph's reign of terror once and for all. Night after night, Shahrzad beguiles Khalid, weaving stories that enchant, ensuring her survival, though she knows each dawn could be her last. But something she never expected begins to happen: Khalid is nothing like what she'd imagined him to be. This monster is a boy with a tormented heart. Incredibly, Shahrzad finds herself falling in love. How is this pos

Boethius: The Consolation of Philosophy translated by Richard H Green (134 pages) My Rating: 3.5 Stars Date Read: 5 April 2016 Synopsis: Boethius composed De Consolation Philosophiae in the 6th century while awaiting death by torture, condemned on a charge of plotting against Gothic rule, which he protested as manifestly unjust. Though a Christian, Boethius details the true end of life as the soul's knowledge of God, & consoles himself with the tenets of Greek philosophy, not with Christian precepts. Written in a form called Meippean Satire that alternates between prose & verse, Boethius' work often consists of a story told by Ovid or Horace to illustrate the philosophy being expounded. The Consolation of Philosophy dominated the intellectual world of the Middle Ages. It inspired writers as diverse Thomas Aquinas, Jean de Meun & Dante. In England it was rendered into Old English by Alfred the Great, into Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer. Later Queen Eliz

Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo (465 pages) My Rating: 5 Stars Date Read: 27 March 2016 Synopsis: Ketterdam: a bustling hub of international trade where anything can be had for the right price—and no one knows that better than criminal prodigy Kaz Brekker. Kaz is offered a chance at a deadly heist that could make him rich beyond his wildest dreams. But he can't pull it off alone... A convict with a thirst for revenge. A sharpshooter who can't walk away from a wager. A runaway with a privileged past. A spy known as the Wraith. A Heartrender using her magic to survive the slums.  A thief with a gift for unlikely escapes.  Kaz's crew are the only ones who might stand between the world and destruction—if they don't kill each other first. My Review: Oh My Gosh! Can we start out with this cover? It is absolutely gorgeous! And the dyed edges on the paper make me want to weep with joy. I love books that do that, but it isn't done enough in my opini

The House in Paris by Elizabeth Bowen (269 pages) My Rating: 4 Stars Date Read: 1 March 2016 Synopsis: One of Elizabeth Bowen’s most artful and psychologically acute novels, The House in Paris is a timeless masterpiece of nuance and construction, and represents the very best of Bowen’s celebrated work. When eleven-year-old Henrietta arrives at the Fishers’ well-appointed house in Paris, she is prepared to spend her day between trains looked after by an old friend of her grandmother’s. Little does Henrietta know what fascinations the Fisher house itself contains–along with secrets that have the potential to topple a marriage and redeem the life of a peculiar young boy. By the time Henrietta leaves the house that evening, she is in possession of the kind of grave knowledge that is usually reserved only for adults. “Her most atmospheric book…very eerie and richly descriptive.”–Daily Telegraph (London) “Bowen has flashes of the authentic Jamesian subtlety…. Strikingly terse

An Essay on the Principle of Population by Thomas Malthus (208 pages) My Rating: 2 Stars Date Read: 28 February 2016 Synopsis: As the world's population continues to grow at a frighteningly rapid rate, Malthus's classic warning against overpopulation gains increasing importance. An Essay on the Principle of Population (1798) examines the tendency of human numbers to outstrip their resources, and argues that checks in the form of poverty, disease, and starvation are necessary to keep societies from moving beyond their means of subsistence. Malthus's simple but powerful argument was controversial in his time; today his name has become a byword for active concern about humankind's demographic and ecological prospects. My Review: Again, we have more essays which are not very enjoyable. There wasn't anything in particular I found interesting in these essays. They all spoke of similar things to what Darwin talks about, but is less coherent as they go along

The Dream of a Common Language: Poems 1974-1977 by Adrienne Rich (79 pages) My Rating: 4 Stars Date Read: 27 February 2016 Synopsis: "The Dream of a Common Language explores the contours of a woman's heart and mind in language for everybody--language whose plainness, laughter, questions and nobility everyone can respond to. . . . No one is writing better or more needed verse than this."--Boston Evening Globe My Review: I loved the depth of these poems. They took so many dark aspects of life and made them beautiful. This was a great collection of poetry.

The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins ( pages) My Rating: 4 Stars Date Read 23 February 2016 Synopsis: 'In one moment, every drop of blood in my body was brought to a stop... There, as if it had that moment sprung out of the earth...stood the figure of a solitary Woman, dressed from head to foot in white' The Woman in White famously opens with Walter Hartright's eerie encounter on a moonlit London road. Engaged as a drawing master to the beautiful Laura Fairlie, Walter becomes embroiled in the sinister intrigues of Sir Percival Glyde and his 'charming' friend Count Fosco, who has a taste for white mice, vanilla bonbons and poison. Pursuing questions of identity and insanity along the paths and corridors of English country houses and the madhouse, The Woman in White is the first and most influential of the Victorian genre that combined Gothic horror with pyschological realism. Matthew Sweet's introduction explores the phenomenon of Victorian 'sen

Bruce Lee Fighting Spirit by Bruce Thomas (329 pages) My Rating: 4 Stars Date Read: 19 February Synopsis: This is the only independent biography of Bruce Lee, and it is complete in terms of both the martial arts and the movies. My Review: This novel allowed for very interesting views into the life of Bruce Lee. There is much exploration into the mysterious aspects of Bruce Lee's life in this memoir. I enjoyed how he strips the mythology of Bruce Lee from the man and gives readers a view into the "real" man underneath. I would definitely recommend this to people who are interested in Bruce Lee.

The Tao of Bruce Lee: A Martial Arts Memoir by Davis Miller (208 pages) My Rating: 4 Stars Date Read: 19 February 2016 Synopsis: In this companion volume to his critically acclaimed first book, The Tao of Muhammad Ali, Davis Miller turns his attention to a second iconic figure of the twentieth century--and another of Miller's own seminal influences: film star and martial arts legend Bruce Lee. Just weeks after completing Enter the Dragon, his first vehicle for a worldwide audience, Bruce Lee--the self-proclaimed world's fittest man--died mysteriously at the age of thirty-two. The film has since grossed over $500 million, making it one of the most profitable in the history of cinema, and Lee has acquired almost mythic status. Lee was a flawed, complex, yet singular talent. He revolutionized the martial arts and forever changed action moviemaking. But what has his legacy truly meant to the fans he left behind? To author Davis Miller, Lee was a profound mentor and a

Lunch Poems by Frank O'Hara (82 pages) My rating: 4 Stars Date Read: 14 February 2016 Synopsis: Important poems by the late New York poet published in The New American Poetry, Evergreen Review, Floating Bear and stranger places. Often this poet, strolling through the noisy splintered glare of a Manhattan noon, has paused at a sample Olivetti to type up thirty or forty lines of ruminations, or pondering more deeply has withdrawn to a darkened ware- or firehouse to limn his computed misunderstandings of the eternal questions of life, coexistence, and depth, while never forgetting to eat lunch, his favorite meal. My Review: I love Frank O'Hara. He may be one of my favorite poets from the post-modernist era. I love how he isn't as dark and gloomy as the other poets during this time period. This was a great, small collection of poems that is easily read very quickly.

Hello All!! Time for another update about what I'm reading/watching/doing!! So first off,I may start doing reviews of movies that I watch on here as well. I think that could be interesting, but I will definitely be posting those as I watch them, not queuing them up with the book reviews. Tell me what you think!! Reading: Right now, I decided to (finally) start reading the last installment of the Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy by Laini Taylor called Dreams of Gods and Monsters . I bought the book when it came out, but for some reason (and I know a lot of other readers of this series have done the same) I have been putting it off. Right now, I'm about a third of the way done, but I hope to finish that later today!! Before I started reading Dreams of Gods and Monsters , I started reading a book called Shadowshaper by Daniel Jose Older. I got almost to the half way point and had to put it aside for a while. This is one of the books I got for free from the book festiv

Ariel by Sylvia Plath (110 pages) My Rating: 4 Stars Date Read: 6 February 2016 Synopsis: "In these poems...Sylvia Plath becomes herself, becomes something imaginary, newly, wildly and subtly created." -- From the Introduction by Robert Lowell My Review: I enjoy reading Sylvia Plath. She has a great writing style that really digs deep. It is so full of pain and sorrow, it's very masterful. I had read a lot of these poems before for other classes and back in high school, so it was cool to come back to them after so long and see them a different way. I would recommend these to people who want to look at the world in a different perspective.

On Liberty and Other Essays by John Stuart Mill (640 pages) My Rating: 2 Stars Date Read: 5 February 2016 Synopsis: Collected here in a single volume for the first time, On Liberty, Utilitarianism, Considerations on Representative Government, and The Subjection of Women show John Stuart Mill applying his liberal utilitarian philosophy to a range of issues that remain vital today--the nature of ethics, the scope and limits of individual liberty, the merits of and costs of democratic government, and the place of women in society. In his Introduction John Gray describes these essays as applications of Mill's doctrine of the Art of Life, as set out in A System of Logic. Using the resources of recent scholarship, he shows Mill's work to be far richer and subtler than traditional interpretations allow. My Review: I am not a fan of reading essays. Though they give interesting views, they are not entertaining in the slightest. I was more intrigued by the last essay out of

So Long, See You Tomorrow by William Maxwell (136 pages) My Rating: 3 Stars Date Read: 3 February 2016 Synopsis: On an Illinois farm in the 1920s, a man is murdered, and in the same moment the tenous friendship between two lonely boys comes to an end. In telling their interconnected stories, American Book Award winner William Maxwell delivers a masterfully restrained and magically evocative meditation on the past. My Review: This novel was okay for me. It was very slow for most of the novel and nothing much happens. There are a lot of characters, some of them we don't really get names for. There are changes in speakers who are too alike, so we don't know which story we are following in that moment. I enjoyed some of the descriptions of the novel but it isn't one much for me.

The Complete Poems 1927-1979 by Elizabeth Bishop (288 pages) My Rating: 4 Stars Date Read: 29 January 2016 Synopsis: Highly regarded throughout her prestigious literary career, and today seen as an undeniable master of her art, Elizabeth Bishop remains one of America's most influential and widely acclaimed poets. This is the definitive collection of her work. The Complete Poems includes the books North & South, A Cold Spring, Questions of Travel, and Geography III, as well as previously uncollected poems, translations, and juvenilia. My Review: I enjoyed reading Elizabeth Bishop's poems. She writes simply, but it is still beautiful. I enjoyed how much she varies in her writings instead of just writing the same thing over and over again. One of my favorite poems was "Crusoe in England" because it took the story of Robinson Crusoe and showed what Crusoe was feeling after he returned from the island. Overall, I enjoyed reading this book of poetry.

Howl and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg (69 pages) My Rating: 3.5 Stars Date Read: 18 January 2016 Synopsis: The prophetic poem that launched a generation when it was first published in 1965 is here presented in a commemorative fortieth Anniversary Edition. When the book arrived from its British printers, it was seized almost immediately by U.S. Customs, and shortly thereafter the San Francisco police arrested its publisher and editor, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, together with City Lights Bookstore manager Shigeyoshi Murao. The two of them were charged with disseminating obscene literature, and the case went to trial in the municipal court of Judge Clayton Horn. A parade of distinguished literary and academic witnesses persuaded the judge that the title poem was indeed not obscene and that it had “redeeming social significance.” Thus was Howl & Other Poems freed to become the single most influential poetic work of the post-World War II era, with over 900,000 c

Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens (606 pages) My Rating: 2 Stars Date Read: 15 January 2016 Synopsis: The story of the orphan Oliver, who runs away from the workhouse only to be taken in by a den of thieves, shocked readers when it was first published. Dickens's tale of childhood innocence beset by evil depicts the dark criminal underworld of a London peopled by vivid and memorable characters — the arch-villain Fagin, the artful Dodger, the menacing Bill Sikes and the prostitute Nancy. Combining elements of Gothic Romance, the Newgate Novel and popular melodrama, in Oliver Twist Dickens created an entirely new kind of fiction, scathing in its indictment of a cruel society, and pervaded by an unforgettable sense of threat and mystery. This is the first critical edition to use the serial text of 1837-9, presenting Oliver Twist as it appeared to its earliest readers. It includes Dickens's 1841 introduction and 1850 preface, the original illustrations and a glossary of co

Life Studies and For the Union Dead by Robert Lowell (159 pages) My Rating: 4 Stars Date Read: 9 January 2016 Synopsis: This popular volume collects two of Lowell's finest books of poetry. My Review: I don't normally read too much poetry, mainly because I don't overly enjoy it. But since I had to for one of my courses, I read this one. It was interesting how it was written. I enjoyed that it was about his life and about specific people he knew from his life. I don't really have too much to say about this book of poetry. If you enjoy reading poetry, I recommend you picking this book up and giving it a read.

Black Widow: Forever Red by Margaret Stohl (410 pages) My Rating: 4 Stars Date Read: 1 January 2016 Synopsis: Enter the world of the Avengers’ iconic master spy… Natasha Romanoff is one of the world’s most lethal assassins. Trained from a young age in the arts of death and deception, Natasha was given the title of Black Widow by Ivan Somodorov, her brutal teacher at the Red Room, Moscow’s infamous academy for operatives. Ava Orlova is just trying to fit in as an average Brooklyn teenager, but her life has been anything but average.The daughter of a missing Russian quantum physicist, Ava was once subjected to a series of ruthless military experiments—until she was rescued by Black Widow and placed under S.H.I.E.L.D. protection. Ava has always longed to reconnect with her mysterious savior, but Black Widow isn’t really the big sister type. Until now. When children all over Eastern Europe begin to go missing, and rumors of smuggled Red Room tech light up the dark net, Na

Illuminae by Jay Kristoff and Amy Kaufman (599 pages) My Rating: 5 Stars Date Read: 18 December 2015 Synopsis: This morning, Kady thought breaking up with Ezra was the hardest thing she’d have to do. This afternoon, her planet was invaded. The year is 2575, and two rival megacorporations are at war over a planet that’s little more than an ice-covered speck at the edge of the universe. Too bad nobody thought to warn the people living on it. With enemy fire raining down on them, Kady and Ezra—who are barely even talking to each other—are forced to fight their way onto an evacuating fleet, with an enemy warship in hot pursuit. But their problems are just getting started. A deadly plague has broken out and is mutating, with terrifying results; the fleet's AI, which should be protecting them, may actually be their enemy; and nobody in charge will say what’s really going on. As Kady hacks into a tangled web of data to find the truth, it's clear only one person can hel

Hello All!! I hope you had a good Independence Day yesterday if you live in America. If not, I hope you just had a good Monday. I wanted to keep you all updated on what I'm doing at the moment, so here it goes. I am currently reading Nightfall by Jake Halpern and Peter Kujawinski. I started it before I read Blue Lily, Lily Blue and The Raven King both by Maggie Stiefvater, but I wasn't into it too much. I am hoping to finish it in the next few days. I am currently listening to the Hamilton musical as well as (finally) reading the Hamiltome which is so freaking beautiful!!! This summer, my plan is to read about thirty books and to actually edit the manuscript I wrote back in November. So far, I have read seven books and edited two chapters of my book. Which is to say, I haven't been editing as much as I should be. So if I tend to pause on reading more or doing little updates throughout the summer, that may be why. I am really excited to get through my reading l

CivilWarLand in Bad Decline by George Saunders (192 Pages) My Rating: 3.5 Stars Date Read: 29 November 2015 Synopsis: Six short stories and a novella. Set in a dystopian near-future in which America has become little more than a theme park in terminal disrepair, they constitute a searching and bitterly humorous commentary on the current state of the American Dream. Funny, sad, bleak, weird, toxic - the future of America as the Free Market runs rampant,the environment skids into disarray, and civilization dissolves into surreal chaos. These wacky, brilliant, hilarious and entirely original stories cue us in on George Saunder's skewed vision of the legacy we are creating. Against the backdrop of our devolvement, our own worst tendencies and greatest virtues are weirdly illuminated. My Review: I really enjoyed some of these stories. Even though I don't normally enjoy reading satire that much, some of these stories were really interesting. My favorite story was the n

Pearl by Marie Boroff (68 pages) Date Read: 8 November 2015 My Rating: 3 Stars Synopsis: N/A My Review: This is one Medieval story that I wasn't a big fan of. The wording was confusing along with the story line itself. It was one of the more religious texts that I have had to read for my Medieval Literature class, and since I'm not the biggest fan of that kind of story, it obviously wasn't my favorite. This is possibly the same poet as the "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" poet, but I enjoyed that one more. I recommend this to people who like Medieval Literature that has heavy ties to Christianity and convoluted plots.

Deliverance by James Mackey (288 Pages) Date Read: 29 October 2015 My Rating: 5 Stars Synopsis: The setting is the Georgia wilderness, where the state's most remote white-water river awaits. In the thundering froth of that river, in its echoing stone canyons, four men on a canoe trip discover a freedom and exhilaration beyond compare. And then, in a moment of horror, the adventure turns into a struggle for survival as one man becomes a human hunter who is offered his own harrowing deliverance. Review: Holy crap, this book was very intense. When I started reading it for my writing class, I had no idea what it was about. Having just read stories about Wyoming, I thought it would be about cowboys again, but boy was I wrong. You don't really feel the tension at the beginning, but as you read it more, you feel it creep up on you. This is a really terrifying thing to have happen to you while you are reading if you haven't experienced it before. When I was in the m

Hello all! I am so sorry I have been gone for so long. I have been super busy with school and writing that I haven't been updating this blog! But fear not, I will be updating again shortly! I have a ton of book reviews to post up on here, I think I will set a schedule of every Wednesday and Saturday there being a new book review up until I catch up with where I am at now, then I will post as I finish the books. I may be posting them more often than that just so I can catch up faster! I will also do little updates throughout the week just to keep you all updated. XOXO Dana