I don’t know why I hadn’t thought of food memoirs as their own thing. I’ve read a few, and I have a whole shelf on my Goodreads labeled “food related”, but I just never quite made the connection until Book Riot’s Read Harder Challenge included reading one and I had no trouble at all picking a couple to put on my to read list (most were there already). Cannonball Read loves Lucy Knisley, so I decided to start with hers. Because graphic memoirs and novels […]
An interesting piece of “narco-journalism”
Okay, I admit that I picked this up because I thought it was by Steve Martin, and I was really curious how Steve Martin could have been wildly addicted to opium for decades and still function in Hollywood (although I’m sure it can be done!). So my apologies to Steve. But I’m glad I checked it out, because it turned out to be a really interesting read. “Is it possible that a person’s childhood fascination with some object could subtly influence every other decision made during […]
“I learn things late–and only the hard way.”
I am five reviews behind because I HATED this book & didn’t feel like putting the time into a review. So…does that count as a review? “I am best served in my life’s goals if I lay in the dark, brood, sleep, listen to classical music, spend time with my few friends, and chase women. That’s what I do. I chase women. I spend time with my few friends. I brood. I sleep. I earn money, and I work.” If you can read the excerpt […]
Always wear a wire
“This reminds me of Miami Vice” Little did he know. Robert Mazur didn’t want to become a CPA so after college he got an internship with the Intelligent Divison of the IRS. After the IRS he became a US Customs agent and developed the deepest, most verifiable cover the agency had ever seen. His task was to infiltrate the Cartels posing as a mob man who could launder their coke money. That man was Robert Musella. He used a lot of ex-criminals (some he sent […]
Who knew studying linguistics could be so dangerous?
Daniel Everett first began to live among the Pirahã people of the Amazon in 1977, when he and his family were sent on behalf of the Summer Institute of Linguistics to study the Pirahã’s language in order to translate the Bible and convert them to Christianity. He ended up learning not only their language, but gathered insights about their way of life that eventually led to his renunciation of Christianity and 20 years living among this primitive tribe. “They have no craving for truth as a transcendental reality. Indeed, […]
Girl Power!
I first heard of Caroline Paul because she was one of the first women firefighters on the San Francisco Fire Department, and she wrote a book about it (Fighting Fire, 1998). I bought the book, planning on reading it, but haven’t gotten to it yet. Once I went through my own fire department academy, I wasn’t too keen on going through the experience again–even through the eyes of another. But then I heard of another book by Caroline Paul, and I was curious enough to […]
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