I wanted to like this. I was told I would like this. But I didn’t like this. I knew who Maron was prior to Waiting for the Punch, mostly because I watched Glow, but I have never listed to his podcast. I’ve also never listened to a podcast before so perhaps this format wasn’t ever going to dazzle me. While each chapter had a distinct theme ranging from family to anxiety to the auditioning process the celebrity anecdotes were organized very haphazardly. I suppose the authors […]
“Lonely was the first flavor I had tasted in my life, and it was always there, hidden inside the crevices of my mouth, reminding me.”
Elizabeth Strout’s Anything is Possible is on the short list of a Goodreads Choice Award but it had a waitlist at my library so I picked up My Name is Lucy Barton instead and was pleasantly surprised. “My mother told me in the hospital that day that I was not like my brother and sister: “Look at your life right now. You just went ahead and…did it.” Perhaps she meant that I was already ruthless. Perhaps she meant that, but I don’t know what my […]
“This kind of feels like a first date. I have that same feeling you get five minutes before you meet the other person, when you’re giddy about where things might go.”
This was by far one of the best books I have read this year. I didn’t expect Isis from Bring It On to deliver such a powerful memoir that touches on topics stemming from race and sexual assault to rom-coms. Gabrielle Union was ubiquitous in the 2000s, or at least my 2000s, as the friend of the lead in movies like 10 Things I Hate About You and the aforementioned Bring It On before segueing into meatier roles in movies that catered more to African American […]
The movie was more informative
Like The Butterfly and the Bell Jar it is hard to criticize a book written by someone who no longer has control over their body despite retaining their full mental faculties. But… I downloaded the audio-book of this one and was confused when Overdrive’s details said it was under 3 hours, I thought it must have been a mistake but it wasn’t; this is an incredibly brief (heh) memoir by brilliant cosmologist Stephen Hawking. A memoir so brief that the Hollywoodized biopic starring Eddie Redmayne gave me […]
“We realize the importance of our voices only when we are silenced.”
Malala Yousafzai and her struggle for education for women in Pakistan was launched into the international spotlight when she was shot in the head by the Taliban and survived. I Am Malala is her story of growing up in a Pakistan that slowly morphed into a unrecognizable country under an religious extremist government. When the Taliban moved into Pakistan they began severely limiting the rights of women, preferring them to be neither seen or heard and disallowing girls from going to school. Malala is a typical girl […]
Erin Chack; Senior Editor, Acid Bath Princess of the Darkness
I didn’t know who Erin Chack was prior to seeing This is Really Happening on Goodreads Best Books of 2017 but after I looked at what she’s written on Buzzfeed I realized I’d read at least half of her most recent posts. Books written by people who are, for the most part, regular people can be hit or miss but the essays in This is Really Happening are more hit than miss. So that’s my only dating advice. Find a carrot who understands your anxieties well enough to […]
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