I am a fan of David Sedaris’s view of the world. I have read every book he has written, starting with Me Talk Pretty One Day shortly after its publication in 2000 and as I am want to do, I then began working immediately through his catalogue. And I have loved them. But something is happening, and I do not know if it’s me, or if it’s him, or if perhaps we are just in a rough spot in our relationship. I laughed fewer times […]
Where’s my Wand?
Eric Poole shares his pre-adolecent adventures about his OCD mother, his “Mr. Mom” father and his rebellious older sister, Val. When his parent’s have a fight that ends with his dad walking out one night Eric finds an old blanket and transforms himself into Endora from Bewitched to conjure up some magic to bring him back. The next day, Eric’s father returns and sets the stage for an impressionable young boy to believe he has powers. Each essay is about a time when Eric used […]
An Unbelievable Story of Survival
Unbroken is one of those books that leaves you shaking your head at the atrocities that men have committed against men and women in war. There are moments in this book when I thought, how unlucky can this guy be, to go from one sadistic camp officer to another who is worse. The fact that any of the men interred in the prison camps described in this book is a testament to human resilience. The book is aptly subtitled. Unbroken is the life story of […]
Notes to Boys by Pamela Ribon
I started reading Pamie.com in high school. It was one of the first online journals I ever followed (back in the dark days of 2003). While the others that I discovered at the time (Velcrometer, Tomato Nation) have fallen off my radar, I still follow everything Pamie writes with a religious fervor. While I, of course, love her fiction, I’ve always like her true stories best. She has mentioned countless times in her blog how she used to write incredibly long letters to boys, letters […]
Or, “My Personal Opinions on Death and Friendship”
I was raised as a conservative Christian. My boyfriend has been an atheist his entire life. There are other reasons that our childhoods seem totally alien to each other, mostly because he grew up having outdoor adventures in Alaska and I grew up watching movies in New Mexico. He is the person you want on your team for a zombie apocalypse. I am the person you want on your team for Trivial Pursuit. The religion difference is significant. I believed, up until only several years […]
Sarajevo to Chicago
I actually first saw this book on a list for new releases in 2013, and though it peaked my interest, I didn’t hear much of anything else about it, so I decided to wait. I finally picked it up recently, and thought it was a pleasant enough read. Some of the essays were incredibly moving, while a few others didn’t quite work for me though they were well-written. I just don’t tend to pick up short fiction or non-fiction that often, and when I do, […]
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