About

As a writing enthusiast and avid blogger, I thought I’d use this site as an outlet for posting my work and my thoughts. It will predominantly include reviews on movies, books, television, music and basically, anything related to popular culture (I’m a bit of a pop culture junkie). Maybe throw in some random musings about life or my interests. Mostly, it will serve as an archive of my reviews written for Amazon and Epinions.

In my reviews, particularly the movie reviews, I tend to take a more macro approach by incorporating politics, culture and social commentary relevant to the topic. This also plays a huge role in choosing things to review.

Most, if not all, of the material here will be written on an informal, just-for-fun basis. If you’re wondering about the lack of content, I’ve had to recently (Jan 2007) resurrect the site after a previous host packed up and disappeared, taking with it my entire site and my blog’s database. So I’ve had to start the site anew, unfortunately.

A blurb about the author:

My name is Beverley and I am a recent graduate, with a honours B.A. in sociology and communication studies. I always had a penchant for the written word, both in the context of reading and writing. I think this might have all started with the first novel that I ever bought, Ramona the Pest by Beverly Cleary. I was about eight or nine and my best friend’s mother took us to the bookstore, telling us to pick any novel we wanted. Standing in front of all those books, I was overwhelmed and wracked with indecision. So, to be quite honest, I think I picked the book by and large due to the author having the same name as me (albeit different spelling), its cover looking kind of cool and the interesting sounding title. As soon as I got home, I started reading it and was soon enamored with the life of Ramona Quimby and the entire Quimby clan. I loved escaping reality through the pages of a book created by one person’s vision. As I grew older, and over a hundred Babysitter Club books later, my fondness of literacy only grew stronger. Hence, my career goals revolved around being able to do something that involved writing. And God only knows that numbers and I don’t mix.

So here I am today, attempting to “make it” in the world, with my degree (or “edu-ma-cation”) in one hand and unbridled enthusiasm in the other. It’s not exactly an easy journey and this blog will sometimes be used as a venting ground for the inevitable job hunting setbacks. To quote Ms. Oprah Winfrey herself, you have to follow your passion. I’m hoping to use that line of thought as my guiding principle in life. It’s tough, but I’m hoping it pays off.

Enough about the boring career stuff. I love a lot of things.

music Straylight Run, Taking Back Sunday, Jimmy Eat World, Brand New, Coheed and Cambria, Senses Fail, Hey Mercedes, The Juliana Theory, Mae, The Early November, The Apples in Stereo, Death Cab For Cutie, Thursday, The Postal Service, Scary Kids Scaring Kids, Armor for Sleep, Motion City Soundtrack, JamisonParker
tv shows The Colbert Report, The Office, The Daily Show, Arrested Development, Veronica Mars, America’s Next Top Model, CSI, Oprah, Buffy, Full House, Sex and the City
movies Garden State, The Notebook, Napoleon Dynamite, Anchorman, Imagine Me & You, Mean Girls, The Breakfast Club, Little Miss Sunshine, Strangers With Candy
books stuff by Chuck Klosterman, Augusten Burroughs, David Sedaris and Al Franken, Wigfield by Stephen Colbert, Amy Sedaris and Paul Dinello, Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach, the occasional chic lit, From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by EL Konigsburg (all-time childhood favourite)
etcetera cheese, hockey, celebrity gossip, social/new media, gorging on sushi, Homestarrunner.com, This American Life, true crime, cute animals, my iPod