While I was gearing up to read Fifth Avenue, 5 AM (and by gearing up I mean placing it on my library request list) when it struck me that, while I’ve seen the film numerous times, I’ve never read the novella in which Holly Golightly is based! Our unnamed narrator is reflecting on the past after an old friend calls him with news about a woman, Holly, he used to know. Holly Golightly has left her home town and reinvented herself as a society girl. She drinks […]
This took three years to write?
Full confession: I loved America’s Next Top Model when I was in high school and college; I remember Kim Stolz’s season (mostly because I hated Lisa) and picked this up based on her name. Unfriending My Ex isn’t really a memoir, Stolz doesn’t dive into her childhood or even her time on ANTM but focuses on her technology dependence. I’ll admit I’m glued to my phone more than I, or my husband, would prefer but Kim and her friends are almost unrealistically intense with their social media habits. Stolz talks extensively […]
Yer the Chosen One Harry
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince: a book drastically different from the movie and my penultimate Harry Potter review for CBR9. Half Blood Prince is one of my least favorite movies in the series, despite all the balls it puts in motion, and even though I re-watched it in preparation of my reading I found myself zoning out in places. Maybe sloughing through 27 hours of (the audiobook) Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix gave me a new appreciation for the zippy pacing of the comparatively short 17 hour HPB. Spoilers […]
A Cannonball and a Book Club Review
Life Moves Pretty Fast has been on my TBR since TheShitWizard read it back in January and, while I didn’t vote for it, was excited to see it as the CBR Book Club selection. “These movies, which were largely seen as junk when they came out, were deeply formative, and everyone I know in my generation feels exactly the same way. They provided the lifelong template for my perceptions of funniness (Eddie Murphy), coolness (Bill Murray), and sexiness (Kathleen Turner). Having been born in 1988 I am […]
“Psychologists call it “learned helplessness” when a person believes, as I did during my youth, that the choices I made had no effect on the outcomes in my life.”
“Americans call them hillbillies, rednecks, or white trash. I call them neighbors, friends, and family. Hillbilly Elegy has been making the rounds since its release in June of last year and, despite being released five months before the election, has been touted as providing insight into the minds of Trump Voters. J.D. Vance’s memoir delves into his childhood, raised primarily in Middletown, OH with familial roots in Kentucky, and the struggles he had growing up straddling the poverty line. This reminded me a lot of The Glass Castle except […]
“Everything we’ve gained has been hard-won by a woman who was willing to be bad in the best sense of the word.”
Bad Girls Throughout History is a beautifully illustrated book with brief histories of a hundred women who paved the way for today’s modern woman. Shen begins with Lillith and ends with Malala Yousafzai sprinkling activists, actresses, scientists and spies throughout history as she goes. To be a bad girl is to break any socially accepted rule. For some women, it’s the way they dress. For other girls, it’s the act of going to school. At one point, it was fighting for the right to vote. The […]
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