Part memoir and part exposé, I feel like this book could be alternately titled Leah Remini: Giver of No Fucks. First off, I have been fascinated by Scientology for years now; more specifically the mindset behind the religion, how it came to be created, and how it has flourished over the years. It is straight up bananas. It’s like a real life science fiction story come to life. I think my first big introduction to it was Paul Haggis’s essay about Scientology after he left […]
The sexiest of the palsies
I will confess that I’d never heard of Zach Anner — despite his rather impressive web presence — until y’all started posting reviews about his memoir. But I enjoyed reading his book, so if you’ve never heard of him either, you still might want to give this one a shot, especially if you like funny books written by funny guys with really good hair (see his author photo below). Zach was born two months early, with cerebral palsy — which confines him to a wheelchair. […]
the Glass Castle is Half Empty
“It’s really not that hard to put food on the table if that’s what you decide to do.” I started to read Jeannette Walls the Glass Castle a couple months ago but had to put it down due to some scenes involving animal neglect. I finally got around to picking it back up and I’m glad I did. The Glass Castle is a hard read (not just because they abandon animals they pick up but can’t care for) but it’s thoroughly engrossing. Jeannette’s father, Rex, […]
“This is your country, this is your world, this is your body, and you must find some way to live within the all of it.”
Oh, this book. This book, you guys. “But all our phrasing—race relations, racial chasm, racial justice, racial profiling, white privilege, even white supremacy—serves to obscure that racism is a visceral experience, that it dislodges brains, blocks airways, rips muscle, extracts organs, cracks bones, breaks teeth. You must never look away from this. You must always remember that the sociology, the history, the economics, the graphs, the charts, the regressions all land, with great violence, upon the body.” Between the World and Me is a letter […]
If Donald Trump was an alcoholic frat boy who wrote a book.
I am honestly embarrassed to have read this book. I guess I must just have some kind of Catholic self-flagellation problem, because I knew beyond a shadow of a doubt within 10 pages that I would hate every minute of this book, yet I still finished it. Why? I will never, ever, ever get those hours of my life back. How can I even summarize this stupid book? I’m extremely late to the party with hating this book, it came out years ago and seems […]
This is a [white] man’s world
If you’ve picked this book up, you probably already know about Ta-Nehisi Coates, or have read his work on The Atlantic before. It’s hard to be sure because I live outside of the US, but based on my casual observation, Coates has become more prominent and publicized during this final Obama administration. Part of it may be due to his incredible long-form piece published two years ago, The Case for Reparations (if you haven’t read this, go. Read it now. Come back to my review later.); but I believe […]
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