I am currently halfway through one Stephen King audiobook, most of the way through Lauren Graham’s audiobook, have recently restarted Neverwhere (I was in the mood for comfort food) and also listened to an hour of Outlander (my project for 2017 — listen to all the Outlander novels on audio) at the nail salon today. All of this to say: this will be my last review of 2016, as I’m nowhere near completion on anything else! “I’m ALIVE. Thinking about it, noticing it, is new. You do things and […]
Smugness in print form
This book was cute and funny, but not nearly as cute and funny as McHale seemed to think… Basically, it’s half autobiography, and half self-help book — how to be the best Joel McHale you can be. The whole thing is very tongue-in-cheek, very smug and self-aware. While McHale does hit the occasional very funny punchline…on the whole it was just exhausting. The only thing I really enjoyed, and this will sound weird, but he does a fantastic job poking fun at his own receding hairline. […]
The Not So Amazing Adventures of Zelikman & Amram
I just left a comment on another CBR raving about Michael Chabon. And it’s true — I love the man’s writing. But this book was just really not very good. I started out liking it, because the language is enchanting. But I realized quickly that it was a lot of fancy words describing something I just could not enjoy. ““[A]dventures befall the unadventurous as readily, if not as frequently, as the bold. Adventures are a logical and reliable result – and have been since at least […]
It doesn’t get much more epic than this
So. The Stand. I have been listening to The Stand on audiobook since before Thanksgiving. It’s 48 hours long. I’m so glad that I was able to to hit my 5th Cannonball of the year on this particular book because I love it dearly, but have never had a chance to review it for Cannonball. So here we go! “Show me a man or a woman alone and I’ll show you a saint. Give me two and they’ll fall in love. Give me three and they’ll […]
Worth reading for the Chris Farley antics alone
I wouldn’t call myself a huge David Spade fan (does anyone?) but I liked Just Shoot Me, and movies like The Benchwarmers and Joe Dirt are always fun. And then there’s Tommy Boy. My husband and I love Tommy Boy (LOVE TOMMY BOY), and while Chris Farley gets all the laughs, he couldn’t do it without Spade as his straight man. “FYI, this book is not that serious. This is meant to be read when super bored, then forgotten fifteen minutes later. It could be read cover-to-cover during one medium-to-severe […]
Raw and honest
This was not a funny book. Now, that doesn’t mean it wasn’t good — Cho’s a good writer and she bares a lot of her soul here — but it’s definitely not the ball of laughs I was expecting from a comedian’s memoir. “We must know who we are, so we can know what we want, so we don’t end up wanting the wrong thing and get it and realize we don’t want it, because by then it is too late.” Cho has endured a […]
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