I’ve always loved Kathy Griffin and this was a nice departure after My Grandfather Would of Shot Me. Kathy Griffin shares a verifiable “who’s who” including sexual deviants Woody Allen & President Trump, iconic songstress Stevie Nicks, acting legend Sidney Poitier and of course fellow gay icons Cher, Barbara Streisand and Liza Minelli. I think my favorite stories were Jeremy Irons, Harry Styles (with bonus Tom Hanks) and Renee Zellweger. She knows everyone. And everyone, for better or worse, knows her. And a lot of celebrities love her- particularly aging […]
“Amon Goeth and Oskar Schindler, they both had power. One used it to kill, the other to save lives. Their example shows that everyone has a choice.”
Yesknopemaybe reviewed Jennifer Teege’s My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me a few weeks ago and was right when she said the premise would be hard to resist. I checked my local library and found the audiobook available for immediate check out. While this was a big change from cheery Patton Oswalt and the Harry Potter series the narration was beautiful and powerful (with added correct pronunciation of German and Polish words!) Jennifer Teege is a mixed race German woman, her birth mother was German and her father was […]
“If you take nothing else away from this book, I hope it’s that sick people are not villains. They are unwell. It’s impossible to say this enough.”
I really enjoyed Wright’s It Ended Badly and I’ve read several book on the subjects covered in Get Well Soon (like Smallpox, Rosemary Kennedy’s lobotomy and Oliver Sacks) so this seemed like a natural Must Read. Vaccination is one of the best things that has happened to civilization. Empires toppled like sandcastles in the wake of diseases we do not give a second thought to today. If taking a moment to elaborate on that point will make this book unpopular with a large group of antivaxxers, that’s okay. This feels […]
Best Dressed at the Oscars doesn’t always lead to memoir success
I think this is what distinguishes me- what makes me a different kind of actress. I have the gift of being able to see what sometimes neither the creator nor the director can see. My husband unequivocally loves Taraji P. Henson (when he saw me reading her memoir he exclaimed “Cookie wrote a book!?”) but I can’t saw we really follow her career. We did just see Hidden Figures but it was a let down for me after reading the book last year. Most of his adoration comes […]
“Year ten of Watson v. West starts now.”
In short, we were the smart kid school, Xavier’s School for the Gifted Youngsters minus the mutant abilities- unless you counted the polyglots and concert violinists as mutants, which wouldn’t be entirely unfair. The Only Thing Worse Than Me is You is a very cute, somewhat predictable pieces of YA chock full of geeky references and snark. Trixie Watson and her friends attend a high school for gifted students where school ranks are flaunted and no one has had eight hours of sleep since Kindergarten. Trixie’s senior […]
Shooting up Celluloid
This will be either the most interesting or the most boring addiction memoir you’ve ever read. I can’t promise it ever gets “harrowing,” but I can promise that I tried- I really tried- to make it funny. In the mid to late 1990s Patton Oswalt, who had recently moved to Los Angeles, had a debilitating addiction. It wasn’t booze or drugs but it was equally crippling- Movies. More specifically, although not exclusively, classic films; he had five ‘encyclopedias’ of Film Noir and Cult movies that […]
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