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…But Like So Many Unfortunate Events In Life, Just Because You Don’t Understand It, Doesn’t Mean It Isn’t So

The Bad Beginning, Book The First by Lemony Snicket

February 20, 2019 by Niki Leave a Comment

I did not read A Series of Unfortunate Events when they first came out. I was a little too old, and I heard of them when the Jim Carey movie came out, but didn’t really get interested in it. It wasn’t until the Netflix Series came out and it hooked the imagination of my son that the Series really revealed itself to me. Once my son devoured all of the episodes of the tv show, he has moved on to voraciously reading the series. I’m […]

An affair to remember, I guess

The princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher

February 14, 2019 by Niki 1 Comment

I’m not totally sure why I picked this book, I didn’t watch the Star Wars movies until I was in college, and as such, they never caught fire for me. I enjoy watching them with my 9 year old kid, because they bring him joy, but I’m Luke warm over them (my phone capitalized the “luke” so I didn’t set out to make a pun, but here we are). I was browsing audio books from my library and I wanted a light read. This book […]

This book was the Big Snooze

You Are a Badass:How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living and Awesome Life by Jen Sincero

January 5, 2019 by Niki Leave a Comment

So, I really don’t know why I picked yet another self-help book, but here we are. Again, Amazon was pumping this book at me, and it seemed more promising than Girl Wash Your Face and I requested them both from the library. They both delivered to my account at the same time and I’m now listening to them back to back. While this book (barely) compares favorably to Girl Wash Your Face, I just couldn’t bring myself to finish it. I’m taking power of my […]

Marginal to bad advice wrapped in a “You can do it/Tough Love” package

Girl, Wash Your Face by Rachel Hollis

January 2, 2019 by Niki 8 Comments

I grabbed this audiobook from the library after internet algorithms kept pushing it at me. I knew nothing about it, and thought with the title and the cover photo that it might be humor-centric self help. After listening to it, I might have to re-evaluate some life choices to see why amazon thinks this is for me. It starts off earnestly, as a lot of mommy-blog type advice does, but even in the introduction, she gets self-righteous and talks about the contempt she has for […]

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