I can’t remember how I heard about Ryan O’Connell’s I’m Special, I think he writes for Uproxx, but I’ve read several special gay boy memoirs in the last few years so perhaps it was a Goodreads suggestion. Ryan O’Connell has cerebral palsy. He is also gay. Needless to say he is a little special or at least has a unique perspective on life. He also got hit by a car while he was in college which allowed him to blame his cerebral palsy symptoms on […]
Catherine is great, this book is not.
While I enjoyed learning more about Catherine the Great, I did not enjoy this particular book very much. The author was clearly totally in the bag for Catherine which, while understandable (Elizabeth I is my homegirl, yo), does not make for the most well balanced of books. I mean, he seemed to take as gospel everything Catherine had to say about her husband, but it was in Catherine’s best interest that Peter III be seen as an idiot, no? I’m not saying he wasn’t, because […]
Someone quiet Franklin, I want to hear more about Eleanor.
I’ll get this out of the way at the outset: I didn’t like this book. Why give it four stars, then, you ask? Well, it’s not a bad book. There’s nothing wrong with it, per say. I just didn’t like it. It took me eight months to read it. I’d like to blame it on the fact that my family increased by one 7 pound boy during that time, but there’s no getting around the fact that I simply struggled to get through this. I […]
“…an undersized, crooked-legged racehorse named Seabiscuit.”
“In 1938… the year’s #1 newsmaker was not FDR, Hitler, or Mussolini. Nor was it Lou Gehrig or Clark Gable. The subject of the most newspaper column inches in 1938 wasn’t even a person. It was an undersized, crooked-legged racehorse named Seabiscuit.” I really liked Laura Hillenbrand’s Unbroken — not just the story (probably one of the most depressing things I’ve read all year) but the way she told it. I liked it enough to bump up another of her biographies on my TBR shelf: Seabiscuit: An American […]
I totally skimmed the Real Housewives stuff
I grabbed this at a book sale for 50 cents. Andy Cohen’s name seemed vaguely familiar, and hey, I like pop culture! I realized after starting it that he’s that Bravo guy — he was head of development for years, hosts a talk show and executive produces Real Housewives. I watch literally nothing on Bravo — unless they’re rerunning Grey’s Anatomy — and couldn’t pick a Housewife out of a lineup if my life depended on it, but I liked the book anyway. So if you’re a […]
Karma’s a Bitch, but so is Hubris
Here are a few facts about climbing Mount Everest: one in ten people die trying to get up and down the mountain; most fatal accidents happen on the descent; it’ll cost you on average between $30,000 and $80,000 excluding transportation and equipment; and once you get above camp four, you’ll be in something called ‘the Death Zone.’ Among climbers, it is also known as ‘Rainbow Valley’ because of the wide variety of coloured clothing worn by the bodies that lie strewn about. One of these, […]
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