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    Book Review: “Why Not Me?”

    I’m writing this after midnight – about 15 hours before I’ve scheduled this post to go live. I should be tired because I’ve been out and about all day, but I’m not because I feel so inspired and invigorated after watching President Obama’s speech at the DNC (Democratic National Convention for my readers outside the US)! On my TV of course. I don’t normally talk about anything political on here in keeping with my lifestyle blog content, but if you want to hear more about my thoughts on the upcoming election visit my twitter where I’m more vocal about it. Moving on, last year I read Mindy Kaling’s book Is Everyone Hanging Out…

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    Book Review: Baby Proof

    To start off my summer I wanted to read something light and that didn’t require a lot of deep thinking. Enter Emily Giffin’s Baby Proof. I’ve read two of her other books Something Borrowed (love the movie as well) and it’s sequel, Something Blue so I really wanted to to read another book by her. The book centers around Claudia, a woman in her mid 30s, who has been married to her husband Ben for a few years. Throughout her 20s she dated men who weren’t right for her for one reason or another, but more than one of the relationships would inevitably come to an end because she didn’t want to have kids and they did.…