Norman Ollestad lost his father, stepmother, and almost his own life at age 11 when their Cessna crashed in the mountains. In this memoir, he discusses so much more than the crash — mostly the strong and terrible passions of his father. “There is more to life than just surviving it. Inside each turbulence there is a calm—a sliver of light buried in the darkness.” Ollestad’s father, a passionate surfer and skier, failed to fulfill his personal dreams of becoming famous (although he did some acting as a […]
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 […]
Fencing, fighting, torture, revenge, giants, monsters, chases, escapes, true love, miracles
The Princess Bride is my favourite film. Probably of all time. Ask me to name my favourite book, and I really wouldn’t be able to choose, as that would very much depend on genre, my mood, the weather, what I’d eaten recently and I would frankly have trouble even narrowing down a top 10. But my favourite film is The Princess Bride. I have loved it since I first discovered it back in the late 80s (or possibly very early 90s, I can’t say exactly), […]
We all go a little mad sometimes
Furiously Happy is hilarious, fast paced, sad and sometimes exhausting to read. Often you are feeling one more of these emotions at once. I suspect this is sometimes what it’s like to be Jenny Lawson, a well known blogger who has written frankly about her struggles with mental illness. The title is inspired by a blog post Ms. Lawson made when she was in the depths of depression in which she vowed to be “furiously happy” during the times her brain wasn’t trying to […]
No wonder Dad is Fat
I followed Gaffigan’s Dad is Fat with his other book — Food: A Love Story. This one should reach an even wider audience, since who doesn’t like to eat? “I’m convinced that anyone who doesn’t like Mexican food is a psychopath.” “There’s an old Weight Watchers saying: “Nothing tastes as good as thin feels.” I for one can think of a thousand things that taste better than thin feels. Many of them are two-word phrases that end with cheese (Cheddar cheese, blue cheese, grilled cheese). Even unsalted […]
“I was a smart-ass, born and raised. This had been my curse and would continue to be so.”
I have my Goodreads goal set at 260 for the year, and it says that I’m currently 4 books ahead of my goal. Unfortunately, I’m 7 books behind in my reviews. So please excuse me if the next few are short and sweet! I would also like to apologize to David Sedaris, since it took me until he mentioned his Greek grandmother in chapter 2 to realize that this wasn’t an Augusten Burroughs book. I mean, it says David Sedaris on the cover. But I guess that […]
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