So anyone on the Internet knows who George Takei is; sure he was the original Sulu but anyone under 40 knows him primarily as the Internet’s gay Asian uncle. This is primarily a memoir about Takei’s time as an Internet phenomena including his early days on Twitter and current successes on Facebook. Nearly all of his web content is crowd sourced, which he acknowledges, and he reprints some of his most popular posts. In fact, my Webmaster told me the other day that my page often […]
“But here’s the thing: none of us deserve anything. That’s an illusion we all exist under.”
“A year ago, just after Ben’s disappearance, I was involved in a press conference, which was televised. My role was to appeal for help in finding him. The police gave me a script to read. I assumed people watching it would automatically understand who I was, that they would see I was a mother whose child was missing, and who cared about nothing apart from getting him back. Last year Rachel Jenner and her son, Ben, went for a walk in the park. He runs […]
Leading Ladies
I’m a big fan of Old Hollywood, due in large part to my father, and have read several books about the time period. Robert Wagner uses his decades long experience as an actor to tell brief anecdotes about the leading ladies of the silver screen. My biggest issue is the brevity of his anecdotes; most of the actresses get only a few paragraphs to have their story told. He starts in the 30s and makes his way to the 80s; his most detailed sections are in […]
This is Criminally Good
Audible and Goodreads gave away free copies of Born a Crime a few weeks ago and I jumped at the chance to download a book that was already on my TBR list. This is one of the best celebrity memoirs I’ve ever read because it is not really a celebrity memoir; besides a few throwaway lines about his introduction into touring comedy Noah doesn’t talk about his career. This is a story about growing up as a mixed child with his black Xhosa mother in South Africa […]
I’d miss pants too Therese
I have a feeling this will be one of many Unmentionable reviews that grace the CBR9 blog thanks to badkittyuno’s wonderful review and Jenny Lawson’s endorsement of it on The Blogess. But here goes… Therese Oneil has dropped you in Victorian America (for the most part) with a decent amount of money and all your 21st Century knowledge; however you’re still (I guess, I mean guys can read this too) woman so it doesn’t matter how much you know because life is gonna suck but you get to […]
Yer a Wizard Harry!
Excluding one or two books over the last three years I have been exclusively reading New-to-Me books since joining CBR. This year I wanted to reread some books I hadn’t read in a few years and while I really want to tackle some of the books from my high school English classes I started with Harry Potter. I am a huge fan of the movie series (despite owning all the dvds I will still drop everything if Freeform is running a marathon) but I have only […]
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