I came home from work today and collected the numerous boxes from my front porch. Between Christmas shopping and getting some last minute things from Amazon for a trip my husband is taking there has been a pretty steady stream of boxes gracing our household. Needless to say, I was so excited to see I had received my Cannonball gift since everything else coming to the house seems to be for other people… Well, I have to nominate ElCicco for the Cannonball Gift Giving Hall […]
“I know that hunger is in the mind and the body and the heart and the soul.”
I have vaguely heard of Roxane Gay through Cannonball and Twitter but I haven’t read Bad Feminist, so Hunger is my first taste of her writing and it was delicious. “The bigger you are, the smaller your world becomes.” Roxane Gay is a “woman of size” who, like Lindy West, she uses the word Fat to describe her body. I related a lot to Roxane although I am what she would refer to as “Lane Bryant” fat since I am only about 40 pounds overweight. […]
Another book my home state has managed to ban
I have been on the waitlist to get a copy of this for months and months and was so excited to finally read it. I was even more excited to see that Angie Thomas won two Goodreads Choice Awards for her work shortly afterwards. Well deserved! “Pac said Thug Life stood for ‘The Hate U Give Little Infants Fucks Everybody’.” Starr Carter lives in a rough neighborhood, Garden Heights, with her mother and former gangbanger father but attends a private school in a nicer neighboring […]
I was 12 going on 13 the first time I saw a dead human being. It happened in the summer of 1959-a long time ago, but only if you measure in terms of years. I
Back in April my husband and I got back to our crappy hotel room in Denver after one of the various wedding activities we were in town for and we turned on the TV which was playing Stand by Me. It was then, after seven years of life together, that I leaned my husband had never seen Stand by Me. Anyway, The Body is the novella on which Stand by Me is based and it is a very strong “coming of age” piece of literature […]
I’mma Buy You a Drank
This was a really great idea that fumbled on the execution. Don’t get me wrong it was well written and clearly well researched but I felt short changed by the length- but I usually feel short changed by the length of books I like. Tom Standage discusses six drinks, three alcoholic and three caffeinated, which span from beer in Mesopotamia to Coca-Cola in the 19th Century. He explains how each manmade drink helped shape the world and was its own version of technology. The most […]
Let Me Explain, This Grown Little Man is Pretty Funny
Kevin Hart seems like one of those omnipresent comedians who has been around forever but when I look back on his filmography I don’t think I had seen a movie he’d starred in until The Wedding Ringer. I’d say I am a casual fan, I do like his comedy specials and plan to see Jumangi opening weekend, but as we all know I am a memoir whore so it was inevitable that his memoir would find its way into my house. It wasn’t as surprisingly […]
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