Well I haven’t had a book rated less than 3 stars all year so I guess I was due for a stinker. I started a book club last month for fans of the new podcast My Favorite Murder. If you’re a fan of true crime, I highly recommend it. This book was the first selection and it was not good. It reminded me of a few papers I wrote in college (thankfully just a few) where I procrastinated like hell and when I finally […]
Sweet, merciful Jesus, what a dumpster fire: A real-time review of Tales of a Female Nomad
-This was a total impulse pick-up. I saw the title on my new audiobook app and downloaded it. I have a soft spot for travel memoirs. Even when they’re not great, I can usually get something out of it. This woman says she’s lived in a lot of places I want to go to. I’m sold. -When Rita Golden Gelman was 48, she found herself on the verge of divorce. Unhappy in her life, unsure of how she got to where she was, and feeling […]
A Not So Wild and Crazy Guy
I have a long relationship with Stand Up comedians beginning the early 80s. My dad worked the swing shift when I was a kid. As I was a parent’s worse nightmare, a small child with frequent bouts of insomnia, my dad and I got to spend a lot of time with each other while the rest of the house was sleeping. We would watch the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson and my favorite comedian was always Steve Martin. I didn’t get the subversiveness of his […]
“Sunshine, you’re my baby and I’m your only mother. You must mind the one taking care of you, but she’s not your mama”
I have had more than a dozen so-called mothers in my life. Lorraine Rhodes gave birth to me. Gay Courter adopted me. Then there are the fillers. Ashley Rhodes-Courter spent nearly a decade in foster care after her mother was deemed unfit by the State to care for her and Ashley’s younger brother, Luke. Ashley bounced around between foster homes from ages three to twelve, sometimes with her brother and sometimes alone. She found some stability with her maternal grandfather’s girlfriend, Adele, but the instability […]
Should be required reading for everyone
Arnold “Junior” Spirit doesn’t exactly have an easy time of it. Born poor and hydrocephalic, it’s pretty much a miracle that he survived infancy. Suffering from stuttering, his over-large head, bad eyesight and frequent seizures, he’s routinely picked on by both children and adults on the Spokane reservation, finding solace in basketball, his drawing and his best friend Rowdy. When Junior transfers away from the school on the reservation to get a chance at a real education, Rowdy feels deeply betrayed, like Junior’s sold out […]
Rub-a-dub-dub 9 Men in a Tub
Amazon offered me a trial subscription to Audible for being a Prime member, despite my awkward audio experience with Fates & Furies I figured I’d give it a try. I downloaded The Boys in the Boat, which has been on my to read list since I read Unbroken for CBR6, because it seemed to be the most bang for my complimentary buck. It’s read by Edward Herrmann and I felt confident that Richard Gilmore wouldn’t be dramatically reading sex scenes to me on my commute […]
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