Before I begin, allow me to strap on my Internet Armor and batten down my hatches. Felecia Day is Queen of the Internet, whether she wants the title or not, and I thought her book was…okay. I mean, it wasn’t the worst thing I’ve ever read, but I can’t say this is an amazing book. I’m glad it was a library get and not a purchase, because I can’t see myself going back and rereading it. I admit, I only know a little bit about […]
A Meh Take on Friendship and Growing Up
Rufi Thorpe’s debut novel, The Girls from Corona del Mar, focuses on the friendship of two girls as it stretches from childhood to adulthood. Lorrie Ann is the golden girl with a perfect family and a perfect home. Mia has an alcoholic mother, two young brothers she both loves and hates and, as the book opens, is 15 and figuring out how to get out of a soccer game so she can get an abortion. As they grow older, one becomes a teacher and researcher, the other […]
But seriously, why not me?
Expectations for books are funny things. When you’ve read something by a author before, especially a memoir or essay collection, you think it’ll be in a similar vein. After all, you enjoyed the first one so much, you’re buying a second, right? You want to read things like the ones before–not exactly the same, of course, but maybe with the same tone or voice. In her second collection of personal essays, Why Not Me?, Kaling delivers that consistency, but adds something pretty important–feeling and heart.
Bro and Ladybro Take Bed-Stuy
Bro. I have to tell you about these comics, bro. It’s about the story, bro, and the art, bro. Just, bro. You have to read these, bro. (I’m stopping now. I promise, that will make more sense once you read the comics.) I don’t remember when I started hearing about Fraction and Aja’s Hawkeye, since they started a few years ago. It might have been online, it might have been my like-minded friend who’s always telling me about what she’s reading. All I knew is that […]
The Things We Do For Love
Did you know that Iran has the second-highest number of sexual reassignment surgeries done in the world? They do more per year than anywhere else, with the exception of Thailand. It can even be subsidized by the government. This really did kind of floor me. You think Iran, you think very old-world religious, especially when it comes to things like sexuality. It turns out, though, they consider a person being born into the wrong body a very serious medical condition that should be corrected as […]
Le Droit de Choisir
As a rule, I’m not a fan of film adaptations of books. There are of course exceptions, but it’s rare that I finish a book and go, “Wow, this would make a great movie!” After finishing The Perfume Collector, however, I have to say that this would make an excellent HBO miniseries. The story takes place in 1955 Paris and then 1920’s and 30’s New York, Monte Carlo, England, and France. The lush costumes, the glamours sets, the sprawling story of two women who are both trying […]
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