Who are you, really, without community? I have been held up consistently as a token, as the “right” kind of trans woman (educated, able-bodied, attractive, articulate, heteronormative). It promotes the delusion that because I “made it,” that level of success is easily accessible to all young trans women. Let’s be clear: It is not.”” This is the second review of Janet Mock’s Redefining Realness on CBR today because badkittyuno takes weeks to review things whereas if I wait more then 2 days I forget what I wanted […]
Stockholm Syndrome
I’ve been in a bit of a reading slump, mostly because I just wanted to go sit in my car and finish Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, beginning but not sticking with a few books in the last week. The Good Girl finally hooked me from beginning to end. It’s not Gone Girl but it has a certain level of suspense to keep most readers interested. “I didn’t set out to be a bad mother, however. It just happened. As it was, being a bad mother […]
Yer Getting 75% More Plot in the Book than the Movie
This is the first Harry Potter book that is a new read for me, although I’ve seen the movie a dozen time, and it’s a much better story. I’m actually retroactively very angry about the movie adaptation! Luckily, there are now several other people embarking on the Harry Potter journey with me so I can, hopefully, commiserate with them since I’m twelve years late to the party. It is going to be very difficult for me to separate the book from the movie so I apologize in advance if you’re not […]
“Nolite te bastardes carborundorum.”
After an unintentional series of memoirs, I began The Handmaid’s Tale on International Women’s Day- it seemed appropriate- and couldn’t put it down. Atwood tells a “speculative fiction” story set in the not too distant future where fertility has dwindled and religious fanatics control the government. After they overthrew the government the Sons of Jacob established a theological dictatorship called Gilead. In this new world fertile women, handmaids, are sent to powerful men’s homes if their wives have not been able to produce a child. Offred, literally […]
“Yes, even after sleeping with a senator, and waking up next to a dead friend, and celebrating Michael Jackson’s last Christmas with him and his kids, I still did not feel—how shall I put this?—mentally sound.”
After reading The Princess Diarist, Fisher’s last work before her untimely death, I decided to reread her other two memoirs throughout the year. While Wishful Drinking came first chronologically I started with Shockaholic because, well, I forgot Wishful Drinking came out first. “I mean, clearly no one would vote for volts until everything else had failed. It’s reserved for those languishing in the suicidal ideation lounge, and I had never been truly suicidal. Not that I haven’t, on occasion, thought it might be an improvement over the all-too-painful present if I could […]
Accurately Titled
I best know David Spade from Just Shoot Me because I was 4 when Spade debuted on SNL and 7 when Tommy Boy came out. Now, as an adult I’ve seen reruns of Spade’s early nineties SNL run as well as butchered showings of Tommy Boy on Comedy Central but that was after he was an established star. “FYI this book is not that serious. This is meant to be read when super bored, then forgotten fifteen minutes later. It should be read cover-to-cover during one medium- to- severe case of diarrhea” I […]
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