I didn’t know much about the plot of Far From the Tree before picking it up. My sister Snapped me the cover with the caption “you will like this” so I added it to my TBR without a second thought. I trust her recommendations; while we don’t have identical tastes we have a pretty good understanding of what the other will like. In this instance she was most definitely correct. Far From the Tree is told in alternating points of view. Grace is 16 years old and just […]
“I realize with sudden clarity that we’re wearing masks, all of us, all the time.”
I read an article that listed several recent Reese Witherspoon’s acquisitions and since everything Reese touches turns to gold I put all of the featured books on my library holds list. Hey, when are we as a society going to earn a Reese’s Book Club in the vein of Oprah’s? Come on Reese! Slap a sticker on whatever you’re reading. We have identical tastes! Anyway. Out of the half dozen books I picked up last week at my local library I started with the thriller Second Life. And I […]
#RKOMC meets RHOBH
More than one million immigrants come to the United States each year. Half of them, like me, come from Latin America. What unites us is that we all have a dream. Before the end of the school year in my new American school, I thought I wanted to go back home. It was, I would learn, a common wish. But life offers so many surprises, and it’s not always easy to know the best way to make a dream come true. Can your heart and […]
Heaven on Earth in Iowa
I’ve read several books on cults like polygamy and Scientology so Greetings from Utopia Park was right up my alley. Claire Hoffman’s mother found Transcendental Meditation and Maharishi Mahesh Yogi as a college student and introduce Claire & her brother, Stacey, to the practice as toddlers. Like most cults TM uses a lot of pseudoscience to trick people into becoming loyal devotees before draining them of all their money in an effort to get more enlightened. I never knew Maharishi. Despite the fact that he lived at the […]
“You kill them with your success. Then they’ll have to kiss your motherfucking feet.”
After a string of lack luster reads I treated myself to Tiffany Haddish’s The Last Black Unicorn from Audible since it’s been getting great reviews and who doesn’t love Tiffany Haddish? I discovered Tiffany Haddish when Pajiba (or maybe it was Celebitchy) posted her interview with Jimmy Kimmel about taking the Fresh Prince of Bel Air on a Louisiana swamp tour. I didn’t see Girl’s Trip in theaters, my husband and I usually only see “blow-em up” movies on the big screen, but I recently saw it and […]
Gay in the Bible Belt
What my mother didn’t yet know about being gay in the South was that you never ran out of material, that being secretly gay your whole life, averting your eyes every time you saw a handsome man, praying on your knees every time a sexual thought entered your mind or every time you’d acted even remotely feminine- this gave you an embarrassment of sins for which you constantly felt the need to apologize, repent, beg forgiveness. Garrard Conely grew up the son of an aspiring […]
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