“This one-two punch—flat incomes and rising expenses—has hit the middle class squarely in the gut.” First of all, Elizabeth Warren is just fucking cool, okay? She’s smart and tough and takes no shit and I want to be her friend. This Fight Is Our Fight explains in horrifying, vivid detail the damage that has been done (and continues to be done) to the United States economy since roughly the Reagan years. She takes specific cases and expands upon them with research and examples and all sorts of […]
Everything in Australia wants to kill me, but I’m dying to visit anyway
This was a fun read. Bill Bryson is always fun, and this was one of the best memoirs I’ve read by him yet. Basically, it’s just Bryson in Australia in 2001. He does a lot of drinking, a lot of exploring, and a lot of trying not to get killed by the locals (animals, people, plants, whatever). It’s witty and silly and his traveling companion for the last few weeks cracked me up. Bryson has a Dave Barry-like way of describing things (or maybe Dave […]
YASSSS QUEEN
Between Katy Tur’s Trump book, this fantastic collection of biographies, and Elizabeth Warren’s This Fight Is Our Fight (review forthcoming), I have read some excellent works by some pissed off women lately. And I’m loving it. “She should be assertive but not bossy, feminine but not prissy, experienced but not condescending, fashionable but not superficial, forceful but not shrill. Put simply: she should be masculine, but not too masculine; feminine, but not too feminine. She should be everything, which means she should be nothing.” Petersen uses this […]
Not as bad as the movie *looked*, but no John Green
Duff — Designated Ugly Fat Friend — is the charming nickname that Wesley Rush gives Bianca Piper at the beginning of the novel. Of course, he turns out to be wracked by secret torments, but still. What a douche. Bianca falls for him anyway, initially using him for sex and then peeling away his layers one by one. Meanwhile, her own life seems to be falling apart at the seams. If you can get past the Duff thing, it’s decent YA with a compelling main […]
Okay, first of all — the main character’s name is Hawthorne
The Hundred Lies of Lizzie Lovett kicked off several YA novels I read on my tablet while on vacation last week, and it was definitely the weakest. I finished the whole thing on a plane, so it’s not like I could really have been doing something else super productive at the time, but still. Following on the heels of Katy Tur, it definitely lacked… “But I always wondered, if she could turn her feelings off like a switch, how much was she hiding from us? […]
Be prepared to get pissed off
Should I have tagged this as horror? Katy Tur had the (mis)fortune of following one of the most insane campaigns in modern history — 500 days on the trail with Donald Trump. She recalls it all here — his speeches, the way he treated the press, the stunts he pulled, etc. She documents the places she stayed, the people she met with, and her horror at the realization that he was actually going to become president. “Some politicians have a gift for language. Trump is […]
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