I thought “stories” would mean essays about Ellis’ experiences as a housewife but it’s actually a series of short stories and most of them are pretty terrible. The best part was Southern Lady code: “Is this too dressy?” is Southern Lady code for: I look fabulous and it would be in your best interest to tell me so. … “She’s old” means she’s racist as Sandy Duncan in Roots. … “Hmm” is Southern Lady code for: I don’t agree with you but am polite enough […]
Next Time I’m Renting the Movie
I checked Black Mass out from my local library on August 10th. I know I didn’t begin it until after I read The Infiltrator but it still took me over a month to slough through. My husband constantly told me to just give up but I preserved! The subject matter, James “Whitey” Bulger and his relationship with the FBI, is interesting but it’s very dryly written and got boring. Bulger was born and raised in “Southie” along with future FBI agent John Connolly. Connolly offered Bulger FBI protection in exchange […]
“Beautiful women – they think they can get away with anything.”
You’re going to love this book as much as you hate Janie Jenkins for the first two thirds of it! Jane “Janie” Jenkins was a teenage “It” girl a la Paris Hilton or a Kardashian who discovered her mother’s murdered body with no recollection of the events preceding her discovery. Since she had a tempestuous at best relationship with her mother she the prime suspect and eventually convicted of the crime. Ten years later the lab that processed the scene comes under scrutiny and her […]
“You only need one ray of light to chase all the shadows away”
“People said Ove saw the world in black and white. But she was color. All the color he had.” What a sweet, simple book. Ove is a curmudgeon who abides by a strict schedule and doesn’t allow a lot of wiggle room in what he considers “the Rules.” His wife, Sonja, was his whole world and dies before the action of the book begins. Shortly after her death he is forced into retirement and he begins to make a plan to kill himself. He has a […]
So YouTube isn’t just Cat Videos?
I heard about Lindsey Sterling from my husband who is a fan of her music. He listens classical Pandora radio when he isn’t listening to rock music so loud it bursts my ear drums. While I was listening Lindsey’s memoir I asked him if he knew she got big on YouTube because she dances and he said he’d never seen any of her videos but it explains why she is our violin playing, ballet dancer four year old niece’s “favorite violinist.” So that was enough […]
Mommy Dearest
If you like Augusten Burroughs, his memoir Running With Scissors in particular, then you will be equal parts mesmerized and horrified by Ariel Leve’s memoir An Abbreviated Life. Leve’s mother was also an unstable poet and while her father was in her life he was literally across the world from her in a time before Skype or even email. Leve’s mother, the poet Sandra Hochman, was unstable on her best days and abusive on her worst. Her mother craved her daughter’s love and affection, something a young […]
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