When I was a little kid, I greatly enjoyed the Disney Peter Pan adaptation. I was extremely weirded out by the Mary Martin live action adaptation, but that was many years before I understood and appreciated androgyny. Last year, Christopher Walken slept-walked through a spectularly boring live-action Peter Pan starring Allison Williams. It was awful, but it led to one of the Fug Girls’ finest hours, a liveblog with more cowbell. That said, I’d never read the book until now. As it turns out, I […]
I’m a bad feminist! And you can be too!
When Bad Feminist first came out, it made the rounds amongst my grad student feminist friends, who all raved about it. I’d never read anything by Roxane Gay until her magical review of Magic Mike XXL (one of my favorite movies last summer), and I LOVED IT. Read it for yourself if you need evidence that you would enjoy Roxane Gay. You will. She’s amazing, and her writerly voice is so unique. My full review can be found at The Universe Disturbed, my personal blog. […]
Tea Porn for Tea Lovers.
Louise Cheadle and Nick Kilby run a company called Teapigs, which they sneakily remind you about several times. They discuss tea from its anatomy and variations to the history of tea, to places to get tea around the world. It is a charming, informative book that taught me a LOT about the variations of tea and the way the leaves need to be treated in order to get the kind of tea you want. But this is not a five-star book. I air my nitpicks […]
See Meryl drawl. See Meryl rip off her wig.
If you have not seen Meryl Streep ripping off her wig in chain-smoking matriarchal delight, here is the summary: a Southern patriarch goes missing, and the family gets together. Old tensions and family secrets come to the fore, amidst a backdrop of stifling heat [sidenote: this is why I put up with long winters in the northern Midwest. I went to Texas to see my grandparents in the summer, and GOOD GOD, WHY IS IT SO HOT? I do not do extreme heat.] Family dysfunction […]
The Great Awakening
James Baldwin has long been on my list of authors to read. And Go Tell It on the Mountain is on TIME’s 100 novels list. I thought I’d start there. I also want to read Giovanni’s Room, which is considered prominent in LGBT fiction, but first I need to get through the books in my library stack and on my shelf. But I’ll say this: Go Tell It on the Mountain is a terrific place to start. You can find the full review on my […]
Spain and pirates and swordfighting! Oh my!
I’ve now read a second Allende novel, and I’m definitely in love. While Zorro does not have the same gravitas and impact that The House of the Spirits did, it’s still thoughtful and substantive, but also a lot of fun to read. I’ll definitely be adding “read more Allende” on my 2016 reading goals list. The full review can be found at my blog, The Universe Disturbed.
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