When Carrie Fisher died on December 27th I was devastated. When Debbie Reynolds died the following day I immediately purchased The Princess Diarist and moved it to the top of my TBR pile to hold on to just a few more hours of these dynamic women. While Carrie only mentions her mother a few times in her most recent memoir it was nice to crawl back into a time when Fisher and Reynolds were spoken about in the present tense. “I saw where someone was complaining about […]
A History of Rock & Roll
I may or may not have taken the long route to an already out of the way grocery store this morning to get things I could have easily put off until Monday to buy in order to finish the last CD of Carole King’s audio-book memoir A Natural Woman. My father gave me the Tapestry album one year for Christmas and it truly is a masterpiece; I never really knew anything else that King was involved in but this book is a well written overview of her decades […]
I resolved to publish at least one more post before 2017
After achieving my double cannonball I began reading the, so far, interesting but dense White Trash because I could afford the luxury of long winded non-fiction. Then my sister-in-law gifted me the adorable comic Breaking Cat News and I figured it’d be a fun way to sneak in one more review before the end of the year. Georgia Dunn was inspired by her real life cats one evening when they all came to investigate a broken shelf; she gave them voices and narrated their investigative report […]
Double Cannonball!
My first double cannonball! It only took three years to work myself up to this goal and I can assure you that has everything to do with CBR and sticking it to cancer! The Sun is Also a Star was a wonderful book to hit a milestone with. Nicola Yoon is a new (to me at least) voice in YA fiction that has been racking up awards for her charming books. Natasha is a Jamaican illegal immigrant who is set to be deported after her father got […]
“Life is a series of decisions and reactions. It is the things you do and the things that are done to you. And then it’s over.”
“Everyone is from someplace. We all have stories, our lives unfolding along crooked lines, colliding in unexpected ways.” Before the Fall opens with a plane crash with only two survivors. Scott Burroughs is a painter who lives on Martha’s Vineyard and paints disaster scenes in homage to his sister who passed away as a teenager. As a young child he watched Jack LaLanne swim to shore from Alcatraz; this moment inspired him to join the swim team. Maggie is married to media mogul David Bateman and they […]
More Like Notes from an Opinionated Woman…
Maisie Williams got some press at the beginning of the year for the following quote”I also feel like we should stop calling feminists ‘feminists’ and just start calling people who aren’t feminist ‘sexist’ — and then everyone else is just a human. You are either a normal person or a sexist. People get a label when they’re bad.” I feel like I fall into Maisie’s definition of a feminist rather than Lindy West’s more outspoken advocating for the female cause. I didn’t know who West was prior to Shrill (although […]
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