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“I wasn’t ashamed of anything because our family secret wasn’t dark and my mother acted neither apologetic nor embarrassed.”

The World According to Fannie Davis: My Mother's Life in the Detroit Numbers by Bridgett M. Davis

April 24, 2019 by badkittyuno 1 Comment

Have you ever heard of a lottery system called “the Numbers”? I hadn’t. But Bridgett Davis grew up watching her mother expertly “run the numbers”, providing her neighbors with access to an illegal lottery. In doing so, Fannie Davis was able to give her a children opportunities they may not have had otherwise. “The word secret is so loaded, suggests its country cousin shame; but I wasn’t ashamed of anything because our family secret wasn’t dark and my mother acted neither apologetic nor embarrassed.” Bridgett always had a […]

Shockingly raw and well-written

I'm Fine...and Other Lies by Whitney Cummings

April 23, 2019 by badkittyuno 2 Comments

I have to admit, I had a bit of a bias against Whitney Cummings before starting this book. Literally my only exposure to her was her TV show, which was kind of terrible. But she’s been a writer and stand-up for years, and I’ve never really sought out anything else by her. I saw her book had high reviews on Goodreads, plus I was stuck on an airplane, so I gave it a shot and I’m glad I did. This was much more than your […]

“Carnivore in the streets, person-who-has-eaten-a-carrot-masquerading-as-a-hot-dog in the sheets.”

We Are Never Meeting In Real Life by Samantha Irby

Meaty by Samantha Irby

April 23, 2019 by badkittyuno 2 Comments

I love this book. I have listened to the audio version of We Are Never Meeting In Real Life and Irby’s previous memoir, Meaty, at least three times each. Like Jenny Lawson’s Let’s Pretend This Never Happened (which I also re-read this year), I have large chunks memorized but I keep returning to it. Irby’s sense of humor and her voice (it’s this weird combination of rasp and Valley Girl and I could listen to it all day) are a perfect combination. “You know, what I […]

“The library is a gathering pool of narratives and of the people who come to find them. “

The Library Book by Susan Orlean

April 23, 2019 by badkittyuno 1 Comment

This book was so interesting! No wonder it had such a long wait at my library. The Library Book is about a crime — a massive, horribly destructive fire at the L.A. Public Library in 1986 — but it’s so much more than that. Orlean has gathered the stories of dozens of real life characters, and told them against the backdrop of the biggest character of all — the library itself. “In Senegal, the polite expression for saying someone died is to say his or her […]

One of my favorite worlds to return to

In an Absent Dream (Wayward Children #4) by Seanan McGuire

April 23, 2019 by badkittyuno Leave a Comment

I have read and reviewed 3 other books in the Wayward Children series, and I have the same complaint about this one as I do the others — Seanan McGuire, you terrible tease, please make them longer! “There is wanting and there is needing, and when you want, you can make good choices, but when you need, it’s important the people around you not be looking to take advantage.” The original book, Every Heart a Doorway, introduces us to Eleanor West’s Home for Wayward Children — […]

A True Story of Passion and Death in MY Suburbs

Evidence of Love: A True Story of Passion and Death in the Suburbs by John Bloom, Jim Atkinson

April 23, 2019 by badkittyuno 1 Comment

In 1980, a small suburb of Dallas (like, barely even a suburb) was rocked by a murder — a young married woman, by all accounts a loving mother and wife, very involved in the local church — was hacked to death by an ax. The community was horrified, of course, but everyone believed it was an outsider, a transient. Until it turned out another loving mother and wife committed the crime. This murder took place in Wylie, Texas — a short drive from Plano, where […]

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