“Songs’re weird; they tell the future and they tell the past, but they can’t seem to tell the difference.” Kristin Hersh, a founding member of Throwing Muses, kept a diary during her 18th year and holy cow, a lot happened. This book isn’t just that diary, though. Nearly thirty years later, she discovers the journal and reads it. And while it was difficult to revisit that time in her life, she got the idea to use that material to tell the story of one of the […]
Medical Mysteries FTW
It took me a while to really get into Susannah Cahalan’s autobiography, Brain on Fire, simply because I was listening to it as an audiobook when I started The Martian, also on audiobook. And while Cahalan’s mystery disease certainly fascinated me, it’s hard to compete with an astronaut stuck on Mars — even if he’s fictional. But once I devoted my full attention to her medical woes, she hooked me. “We are, in the end, a sum of our parts, and when the body fails, all the virtues we hold […]
Yes Please!
Amy Poehler’s Yes Please is just the right mix of professional and personal essays that I think I wanted out of Lena Dunham’s memoir, and with more relateable life experience, since I consider myself more of Amy’s generation than Lena’s. I’m 36 so I’m in between them, but my resistance to new technology and fondness for 90s alternative rock puts me squarely in Generation X, I decided. In Yes Please, Amy writes a series of essays covering her childhood in New England, finding success but […]
Sort of My Kind of Girl?
Lena Dunham has inspired a lot of feelings for such a young woman. For whatever reason, people tend to feel pretty strongly either that she is the worst thing that has happened to her generation or that she’s a funny, brave young woman with some serious talent. However you feel about her or her show Girls or any of her other work, you can’t deny that she has something; if she didn’t, no one would give a shit one way or the other. Personally, I […]
What’s for dinner? Joie de vivre
I had the good fortune to be able to read this novel prior to, and during a trip to Paris, France. I am a self-described foodie (though I dislike the term). I am that person who is constantly inundating social media with food pics, tries to shop locally and seasonally, and enjoys cooking a good meal. I knew that Julia Child was a tour de force in the cooking world, as she practically introduced French cooking to the United States, and a charming and captivating […]
“There is no recovery for anyone without lifting the lid on the pain of the past and letting in the light.”
“Any time an opportunity scares you that much, you should seriously consider saying yes.” I read Rob Lowe’s first book Stories I Only Tell My Friends back in 2012 for Cannonball Read 4. I remember enjoying it quite a bit, so much so that when I became aware of his second memoir, Love Life I immediately added it to my to read list. Where Stories I Only Tell My Friends had a somewhat linear structure, Love Life does not. Rather, it reflects the things left […]
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