This was the perfect book to bring to the beach a couple weekends ago. I could read a chapter, yell at my kids, read another chapter, chat with my mom, pick it back up and never lose the plot. It was simple and fun. “Religion was supposed to be a matter of faith. Gods were not supposed to jump on your desk and snarl at you. They weren’t supposed to sit in your office smoking cigarettes. God’s didn’t do anything. They were supposed to ignore […]
“I hope these essays have been comforting to someone reading it if for no other reason than to watch me openly admit I have no idea what I’m doing.”
Caitlin_D reviewed this one a while back, and said that you don’t need to be a Sara Bareilles super-fan to enjoy it. Not that I don’t like her or anything, she’s just not really on my radar. But it popped up on my Overdrive dashboard last week, so I thought I’d give it a shot. It’s definitely a well-written, interesting book by a very talented woman. “You are overwhelmed and haven’t learned to be your own friend through this yet. You will. Your fear of jumping […]
“A lot of my life happened in great, wonderful bursts of good fortune, and then I would race to be worthy of it.”
I love Julie Andrews. I realize that’s a controversial statement, but stick with me here. I think she’s beautiful and charming and so very talented. I specifically love Mary Poppins Julie Andrews and Sound of Music Julie Andrews (alongside another childhood favorite, young Christopher Plummer in a uniform) and The Princess Diaries Julie Andrews. She’s just so fucking classy. “Once in a while I experience an emotion onstage that is so gut-wrenching, so heart-stopping, that I could weep with gratitude and joy. The feeling catches and magnifies so rapidly […]
“Barrel Fever” is the DTs, FYI
I’ve only ever read non-fiction by David Sedaris, and generally really enjoyed it. This book is primarily fiction, with a few non-fiction stories thrown in at the end. Maybe I’m just hopeless, but I hated the fiction stories in this book. I thought they were mean and not funny. The non-fiction at the end is pretty typical of what I expect from Sedaris, and saved this book from a 1 star rating. The short stories, most if not all written from first person view, generally tell stories about […]
“The question is, how can the rest of the country live knowing that so many of us have to live like this?”
Towards the beginning of Hand to Mouth, Tirado defines her terms as follows: “Poverty is when a quarter is a fucking miracle. Poor is when a dollar is a miracle. Broke is when five dollars is a miracle. Working class is being broke, but doing so in a place that might not be so worn down. Middle class is is being able to own some toys and to live in a nice place… And rich is anything above that.” Regardless of where you fall on that […]
What was I really expecting, with a title like that…
I had said after reading Punkzilla that I was getting too old for a certain type of YA novel — the ones full of partying and drinking and teens disobeying their parents. I don’t mind these in service of a good story, but they rarely are. Alas, I had already purchased fml, so I read the damn thing anyway and…yep. Punks kids all over my lawn. “People aren’t meant to be perfect. We’re all imperfect people looking for perfect moments to share with other imperfect people.” So, fml […]
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