3.5 stars. This is my third Knisley graphic memoir (and I have Something New and French Milk on my nightstand). An Age of License was perfectly enjoyable, but after the surprise and delight of Relish and near perfection of Displacement, it pales a bit in comparison. I have a sneaking suspicion it might have hit me with more impact if I had read it just a few years ago when I was younger and dealing with the same kinds growing pains. Like Displacement, this is […]
An excellent, heavy book about rape
Rape is a serious subject, and it’s being discussed much more openly and frequently these days. It’s both a good and a bad thing. It’s good that we’re slowly dismantling misperceptions and letting survivors tell their stories, and it’s bad that rape culture is still a thing and people are still being stubborn assholes about shaming the victims and not actually bringing rapists to responsibility. I won’t get on my soapbox, but I am trying to read enlightening and educational material to help guide conversations […]
A brief grown up book before I post 3 more YA reviews
There’s a lot of bitching in this memoir, but the writing is funny enough to balance out the more curmudgeonly bits. And the author’s message is important enough to make it all worth it in the end. “You don’t get rewarded for creating great technology, not anymore,” says a friend of mine who has worked in tech since the 1980s, a former investment banker who now advises start-ups. “It’s all about the business model. The market pays you to have a company that scales quickly. […]
I’d like to nominate Fisher to Go Fug Yourself’s Drinks with Broads club
Look, Carrie Fisher is awesome, right? We can all agree on that? This book is a meandering mess of stories, with no clear thread to connect them and some pretty crazy turns towards the end. But Carrie Fisher is awesome, so you should read it anyway — for all of its hot mess-ness, it’s still pretty freaking funny. “You see, even after decades of therapy and workshops and retreats and twelve-steps and meditation and even experiencing a very weird session of rebirthings, even after rappeling down […]
The Man Who Fixed the World Series
If you’re not familiar with the name Arnold Rothstein, you might be aware of the fictional portrayals which have outlived him. F. Scott Fitzgerald introduced him into The Great Gatsby as Meyer Wolfsheim, the carnivorous gambler who unnerves Nick Carraway. Damon Runyon, on the other hand, humanized Rothstein as the put-upon man about town Nathan Detroit in the stories that would eventually become Guys and Dolls. As those wildly divergent interpretations might lead you to guess, Rothstein was a slippery persona, hard to know and […]
Ain’t Nothing but a Ginsburg Thing
This book was a great way to pass some time on a 12-hour flight to China though I wished I had the “real” book because all the visuals were hard to see on my Kindle. I was a big fan of Ruth Bader Ginsburg before I read this and now I’m an even bigger fan. For those of you who are not familiar, this book developed from the Notorious RBG Tumblr blog started in 2013. Carmon & Knishnik do a great job of giving the […]
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