I think most people have heard of the elusive Hermes Birkin bag; although most people probably couldn’t pick one out of a line up and even fewer would ever attempt to own one. I worked with a client who had a black leather one and they are admittedly nice bags but spending (at minimum) $7,000 on a handbag is insane. Hermes is smart though; they have created a shortage which has only spurred the demand. Michael Tonello was a make-up artist who owned his own […]
And yet, as we are human, and our species’ greatest achievement is speech, we are never speechless for long
Ms. Oates is clearly ambivalent about the whole memoir process and she takes great pains with this book inparticular to say so. The root of memoir is memory. When memory is cast back decades it is likely to be imprecise as a torn net haphazardly cast that may drag in what is irrelevant as well as miss what is crucial.” Unlike her A Widow’s Story: A Memoir which was taken from her actual journal entries, this is a group of loosely related works. Many have appeared in […]
Pondering the Choices That Brought Us to Now
I think I might need to face the fact that I enjoy reading memoirs more than I thought I did. Because, I’ve read a bunch this year, and I can’t think of a single one I didn’t enjoy. The stories they tell are varied and real. When done well a memoir can and should help reveal the truth of the human experience and give the reader something to ponder. I don’t always think I’m pondering exactly the thing that the author intends, but I’m always […]
“We realize the importance of our voices only when we are silenced.”
Malala Yousafzai is an extraordinary young lady — brave, intelligent, well-spoken and determined to provide the basic human right of education to as many people as possible. She also likes to read the Twilight books and do her hair. I am Malala does an incredible job of introducing not just the activist Malala, but the real person as well. “Education is education. We should learn everything and then choose which path to follow.” Education is neither Eastern nor Western, it is human.” Yes, Malala is the […]
Sometimes We Fly
There are books that make you laugh out loud (or, in my case, bite my lip to try and silence my laughter at work) and there are books that make you cry ears of genuine understanding and relief and thanks that you’re not the only one. Jenny Lawson writes books that do both. And they speak to you. It’s like she’s crawling around my head, listening to my thoughts and spitting them back at me, which is good and bad. It’s good with the hilarious stuff […]
I Wandered the City, Got Lost, and Found Myself Again
Fine, I admit it. I loved Julie & Julia. The movie, because Meryl Streep is a goddess, and Stanley Tucci should be in everything. I could have done completely without the other parts and just wanted two hours of Paul and Julia Child together. Talk about romance goals. It was actually thanks to a spam comment on the Cannonball site that I saw someone else had read My Life in France and, without hesitation, clicked the link and bought myself a copy. Julia Child is one of […]
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