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About Stephanie Perry

Stephanie P. is a writer, editor, and blogger. Her secret shame is dystopian YA fiction. You can find her wherever the books and food are.

Reading List: V-day Breakup Books

Go on, you might as well eat it all. Valentine’s Day has a sinister superpower: to make almost everyone feel stressed out about their love life. If you’re in a relationship, it poisons you with the artificially inflated expectations depicted in jewelry-store commercials and Hallmark ads; if you’re not in one, it gives you the (deeply mistaken) impression that the rest of the planet is one gigantic Noah’s Love Ark of blissfully paired-off soulmates. But shittiest of all may be if you were recently in a relationship and reasonably expected to be celebrating V-Day with someone, only to [...]

2016-12-31T17:58:47-07:00February 6th, 2014|

Reading List: Girls, Abducted

In recent years, there’s been a bumper crop of books — fiction and nonfiction — about young women being held against their will. Because I am a terrible person, I developed an unhealthy interest in the subject and ended up reading quite a few of these books, so I’m now qualified to present a list of some of the most riveting titles for anyone who shares my creepy fascination. Plus, we’ll look at a couple of forthcoming additions slated for 2015 and beyond. My Story Author: Elizabeth Smart I’m now old enough to play the “Where was I when…” game, [...]

2016-12-31T17:58:49-07:00January 3rd, 2014|Tags: , , , , , |

My Next 5 Books (According to the Seattle Public Library)

One of the niftier services offered by the Seattle Public Library is Your Next 5, where a librarian creates a custom reading list for you based on what you’ve been reading and what you like. Having just recently discovered Kage Baker’s funny, light-hearted, yet touching fantasy novels, I was eager to see what they’d recommend, so I asked for “fantasy novels with rich world-building and a sarcastic/humorous narrative voice.” The results were pretty spot-on! I enjoyed the His Majesty’s Dragon series, and I love Robin Hobb (which I probably should have mentioned in my request). I’ve tried the Amber novels [...]

2016-12-31T17:58:50-07:00November 27th, 2013|Tags: |
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