Every Last One is about a mother with three teenage children. They all have very realistic teenage concerns and dramas. There’s depression in the mix, an eating disorder, relationship problems, very well-written dynamics between the kids and their friends and significant others and how they all interplay. Mary Beth’s marriage isn’t really the point but there’s also some very subtle but very real commentary on being married for a long time. The parents are each doing their best to figure out how to effectively parent […]
Stunning photo project or exploitation?
The premise of The Oxford Project is simple, and I suspect it’s one that you’ll either get or really not get. In 1984, Peter Feldstein photographed every resident of Oxford, Iowa (I can’t recall if he ended up photographing every single resident, but if not it was extremely close). The photographs are simple and stark, with people rarely posing but just standing frankly in front of the camera. Sometimes they’re accompanied by a bicycle, a baby, a gun, a lion. In 2004, he went back […]
It’s a pleasure to sit at this old lady’s knee.
It’s been years since I read the first Call the Midwife book, and I only vaguely remember it. When this finally made its way to the top of my Goodreads list, I was a little concerned that the gap would be a problem. Fortunately, Shadows of the Workhouse more or less functions as a standalone book. Knowing the basic workings of Nonnatus House is useful, but hardly required. Whereas Call the Midwife was a pretty straightforward memoir of Jennifer Worth’s time as a midwife working […]
I stand corrected af.
Chrissy Teigen really is an absolute gift to the world, isn’t she? I’m really late to the party on that one. At some point I realized that I always click posts about her on any blog I follow despite having no special interest in her career or her husband John Legend’s. She just gradually floated into my consciousness as a delightful Twitter personality, but…I’m not even on Twitter. It was a weird situation. So when I saw Cravings here and there, well-reviewed, I figured why […]
I guess I forgot I had a choice, let you push me past the breaking point.
My goodness what a book. I’m surprised that I finished Troublemaker, which isn’t to say it’s not a good book. My level of disinterest in celebrity memoirs is hard to even convey with words, but I knew absolutely nothing about Scientology. Pajiba covers Scientology drama with some regularity, and I make it my business to have at least a passing understanding of most of Pajiba’ content. Also, I only ever watched like to episodes of King of Queens, but for some reason Leah Remini really […]
It wore out its “welcome” almost immediately.
Ugh. There truly are not 250 words to say about this book. It came out in 2010, when these blog/website collections of things like passive aggressive notes or angry looking zoo animals or whatever were everywhere, and they kept getting book deals. I went through a period when I thought they were hilarious. I added a few to my Goodreads to-read list. I have a system for randomizing my next book, and when I come across one of these old “should’ve just been a website” […]
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