Another celebrity memoir, in which said celebrity overcomes a difficult childhood through personal strength and the ability to laugh at his-/herself, and is now wildly popular for said ability. Aisha Tyler’s Self-Inflicted Wounds is also the second celebrity memoir I’ve read in the last week (the first being Kristen Johnston’s) in which the writer was ridiculed mercilessly for her incredible height (both ladies are 6 feet tall), but now a general consensus would indicate that their height contributes greatly to their general hotness. “I was still very much a kid […]
Addiction and Triumph
Wow, this was way better than expected. I know Kristen Johnston primarily as Sally from Third Rock, as I’m sure you do, too — but don’t expect more than the briefest mention of Third Rock in this book. It is not a memoir about her “life in show business”. Guts is a book about addiction — starting with a drinking problem (in high school), adding on pills and culminating in an ulcer tearing open in stomach in London in 2006. “It was a dark day indeed when I was forced to admit […]
Parenting for the modern world
I’ve read one of memoir by Stefanie Wilder-Taylor (and I have one more in my queue), but this book, Gummi Bears Should Not Be Organic, focuses much more on parenting than the last (I’m Kind of a Big Deal). It’s funnier, too, in my opinion. That might just be because I can relate more to evil children who won’t sleep than to driving around celebrities in a limo. “I need friends who understand my limitations and have lowered their expectations. They get that although I said I’d […]
www.27bslash6.com
“Evil Online Genius” is correct. Even if you’ve never heard of David Thorne, you’ve probably read something by him. The series of movie posters created for a co-worker with a missing cat? That was him. The guy who tried to pay his chiropractor with a picture of a spider? That was him. He’s a graphic designer, but he spends his time tormenting others (usually through email), then posting those things on his blog, 27bslash6. Assuming even half of what he writes is true, he’s an asshole. […]
Nothing “Instant” About It
I like to read funny memoirs and autobiographies, especially by funny ladies, but I never purchase these books because they’re such quick reads. I hate spending $10 to $15 on a book (and it’s always new, you can never find these at Half Price Books) that I will finish in an afternoon and likely never read again, even if it was fun to read. Therefore, I usually borrow these books from my lovely sister, who has similar taste in the funny-ladies-and-occasionally-dudes-write-books genre. Sadly, she doesn’t purchase ever […]
Everything I know about Chilean history, I know from Isabel Allende
And what I’ve learned about Chilean history from Isabel Allende tends to be very sad indeed. Portrait in Sepia, like any of Allende’s books, is beautiful and sad and wonderful. I loved it and couldn’t put it down. “Each of us chooses the tone for telling his or her own story. I would like to choose the durable clarity of a platinum print, but nothing in my destiny possesses the luminosity. I live among diffuse shadings, veiled mysteries, uncertainties; the tone of telling my life is […]
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