Narfna wrote her review of Leah Remini’s Troublemaker yesterday afternoon and mentioned it being hard to put down and she was right! I picked this one up after my nephew went to bed last night (we were babysitting) and only had about 50 pages left to read by the time my husband requested we also go to bed. Scientology and their shady practices have garnered a lot of press over the last few years following the escape & testimonials of many high ranking people and […]
Late to the party. CBR7 Book Club
I remember seeing all the Station Eleven reviews popping up throughout CBR7 but for whatever reason I didn’t jump on the bandwagon until now. In lieu of a traditional review I’m going to answer a few of fantingviolet’s book club discussion questions. 1. Did you find the shifts between pre- and post-apocalypse to be an effective storytelling technique? How about changing character perspectives? I’ve gone on record saying that multiple character view points combined with too much time jumping can be irritating and I stand […]
Why would you only spend eleven pages discussing The Daily Show
Aasif Mandvi was born Asif Mandviwala in Bombay, India and his family moved to Bradford, England when he was a toddler. When Aasif was 16 his father relocated the family one more time to Florida. His father was a small business owner without a head for business and his mother was a stay at home mom who couldn’t cook as well as her husband. Despite having an arranged marriage Aasif was raised in a loving, supportive family. Aasif dreamed of being an actor from a […]
Confessions of a Planet Killer
“Pluto was part of their mental landscape, the one they had constructed to organize their thinking about the solar system and their own place within it. Pluto seemed like the edge of existence. Ripping Pluto out of that landscape caused what felt like an inconceivably empty hole.” On August 25, 2006 the International Astronomical Union met in Prague and voted on what a planet was and whether or not Pluto met those qualifications. I was about a week into my freshman year of college where […]
French WW2 Burnout
Our local library saved my marriage. That’s probably overreacting but I will say my husband is thrilled that I will look at the library before buying something and that library books eventually leave the house. That being said, the library has a wait list for some books; and while a long wait may get me to buy something I wanna read NOW sometimes I just wait it out. And sometimes that means, with due dates looming, I read two thematically similar books in too quick […]
“My name is Dwight Schrute. My father’s name? Dwight Schrute. His father’s name? Dwide Schrood”
I don’t know why Rainn Wilson named his memoir The Bassoon King, yes he played the bassoon as a teenager but it wasn’t a pivotal part of his growing up. He talks about Dungeons & Dragons, sci-fi books, and his Baha’i faith shaping his childhood more than being a band geek. I suppose it does set the tone of a not-quite-serious look at the boy who would become Dwight Schrute. Rainn Wilson would not have been given a book deal if he hadn’t played Dwight, […]
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