Jen Lancaster was the author that really got me into the memoir genre; she was loud, liked animals and felt comfortable sharing most of her somewhat ridiculous life with her audience. In recent years she has delved into fiction which I tried but haven’t enjoyed. Jen knew her core audience, including many of the women buying her fiction, wanted more memoirs from her and she wrote this book for them. But then her publisher didn’t want to publish “vintage Jen Lancaster” so she opted to […]
The Granite Mouse
I don’t know how to properly express my love for this novel. Any review I give will pale in comparison to Irving’s opus and the only thing I can really say is that: if you haven’t read A Prayer for Owen Meany- you should and if you have read A Prayer for Owen Meany- then you should re-read it. I was first introduced to John Wheelwright and Owen Meany by my high school English teacher and I don’t think I properly appreciated it at the time. Who appreciates anything […]
I wish it had ended about 4 pages sooner
Everyone in this novel is an unlikable idiot. So the premise is that Marco and Anne decide to leave their 6 month old baby alone at their house while they attend a dinner party at their neighbor’s house. They take their baby monitor with them and check on Cora, the infant, every thirty minutes. “Who goes to a dinner party next door and leaves her baby alone in the house? What kind of mother does such a thing? She feels the familiar agony set in […]
It takes almost 140 pages before the Tuhoy family shows up
“People like to talk about “Cinderella stories,” but Cinderella didn’t get her happy ending without lifting a finger. She had to show up at the ball, be charming and smooth, and win over the prince. Of course she had help along the way, but ultimately it was up to her to make the fairy-tale ending happen.” Michael Oher, who had already made his name in high school and college football circles, became a household name when his story was turned into the Sandra Bullock starring […]
Gayer than I was expecting and the cat dies
I didn’t know who Samantha Irby was prior to Goodreads suggesting We’re Never Meeting in Real Life but she appears to be a writer who has a funny, popular blog (bitchesgottaeat- great name). Life was not easy for Samantha growing up. Her mother had MS and died when Sam was a teenager; her father was largely absent and died shortly after her mother passed away. She also has Chron’s disease and IBS. Right now I am sporadically trying to be vegan, because I love animals and being a […]
“The scary beauty of life is that cancer can be around the corner just as a Grammy nomination can be.”
Tig Notaro has been on my radar for the last few years, primarily because of the press her cancer diagnosis and Argo comedy performance received. However, prior to reading her memoir I didn’t realize that the cancer diagnosis was just the tip of the iceberg in the shit storm 2012 was for her. First Notaro got painfully sick following a pneumonia diagnosis and, after a few hospital visits, was diagnosed with C.Diff, a life threatening infection caused by the removal of all the bacteria in […]
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