The Carol Burnett show went off the air 10 years before I was born and I don’t believe I’ve ever seen a single episode outside of a clip of the Gone with the Wind parody. However, we have established I will read any memoir written by a smart, funny woman and this was an interesting read with lots of behind the scenes details. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVBzQ0Lon1g Carol had a contract with CBS in the 60s that included a “pay or play” clause regarding a minimum of 30 episodes of […]
The Real Housewives of Eugene, OR
Laurie Notaro, along with Jen Lancaster, Jenny Lawson and numerous other, is a very funny lady who openly shares her humorous life with an audience. It’s been awhile since she’s published a memoir although she appears to have written a novel last year! In Housebroken Laurie is in her 50s, but she hasn’t matured much since we last met, she is still a bit of a hoarder who forces various neighbors try her homemade Twinkies after the Twinkie shortage panic of 2012 . Laurie is a bit of […]
Yer Going to Get Sick of All The Harry Potter Reviews CBR
As I confessed in my Sorcerer’s Stone review I haven’t read the series past Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban; it is my secret shame but I feel good confessing it and rectifying my mistakes. I have seen Prisoner of Azkaban the most out of all the Harry Potter adaptations because my husband prefers to skip the first two and we usually lose steam in our marathons before getting to Deathly Hallows. Harry escapes from 4 Privet Drive, after exploding his Aunt, and expects to be reprimanded by the Ministry of Magic. Instead […]
“Of course it was Loki. It’s always Loki.”
“Of course I do,” said Thor. But he didn’t. He was just doing whatever he felt like doing. That was what Thor did best. Neil Gaiman has been a Norse mythology fanboy since childhood. His novel American Gods (my first Gaiman and one of my Top 5 books from last year’s CBR) heavily features Odin and Loki. Gaiman wrote Norse Mythology in part because a lot of the Norse Gods have been lost to history while the Greek & Roman Gods have persevered. This is a fairly complete collection, at […]
“And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.”
And so my goal of rereading my AP English course load begins… Ok, so basically anyone who went to high school in America knows The Great Gatsby and it’s incredibly re-readable although I haven’t read it since before this treasure came out: 100 year old spoilers ahead… In the summer of 1922 Nick Carraway is living near his cousin, Daisy, in fictional West Egg trying to make a living after graduating college and serving in WW1. While Nick has to work to earn a living most […]
Yer a Parseltongue Harry!
It’s been a pretty long time since I’ve seen Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (it’s my husbands least favorite so we tend to start our marathons at Azkaban) and even longer since I’ve read the book (like, I dunno 15 years…) So this journey was a pleasant surprise. After a miserable summer with the Dursley family, and despite an ominous warning from Dobby the house elf, Harry Potter finds himself back at Hogwarts. Shortly after arriving there are attacks on several students born to non […]
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