Comedy/Humor – Page 368 – Cannonball Read 17

Get Out of My Head, Guy!

My Life as a Goddess, a memoir through (un)popular culture by Guy Branum

April 30, 2019 by lumenatrix 1 Comment

I got this as an audiobook, as I almost always do when reading a celebrity memoir, especially if it’s a comic. If you are going to read this book I recommend the audiobook. So I spent a good 90% of this book thinking, “I know, right??!!” It is almost creepy how much Guy Branum and I think alike. He grew up in a town about an hour away from where I grew up and he’s only about 4 or so years older, which I think […]

Sometimes I just feel the need to reread the story of Stanley

Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir by Jenny Lawson

April 30, 2019 by badkittyuno 2 Comments

Yeah, I read it again. Actually, I listened to the audio book because the only thing more fun than reading Jenny Lawson’s stories is listening to her tell them. And it happened to be available as I was boarding a plane to rush out of town for a family emergency, so that seemed to be good timing for a little comfort reading. “Because you are defined not by life’s imperfect moments, but by your reaction to them. And because there is joy in embracing – […]

Evolution is a fickle bitch

I'm Just a Person by Tig Notaro

April 25, 2019 by Claire Badger Leave a Comment

I set out to learn about Tig Notaro when she appeared on Star Trek: Discovery as the dry, hyper-confident engineer Jet Reno. I love this character so much that I went down the Tig Notaro rabbit hole and discovered she does not disappoint, and is possibly the only person worthy of depicting Jet Reno. I chose to do the audiobook version of her memoir, in part because I love her dry-Daria like delivery and wish I could truly perfect my like-I-give-a-fuck-about-emoting-monotone like she has. If […]

Let it Snow! Let it Snow! Let it Snow! (next year but in the meantime some snow books to enjoy)

The Froze Monster (A Disney Frozen book) by Walt Disney Company

Pinkalicious and the Snow Globe by Victoria Kann

April 24, 2019 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Even though there are no major “kid holidays” coming up, there is always time to read those fun little books that come in that 8 x 8 sizing. These are great little books for “stocking stuffers” or “Easter Basket fillers” or even when you are looking for a “little something” as an everyday treat. They are inexpensive and have a great mixture of text and illustrations (or even photographs). Two books that came across my desk recently were the titles The Froze Monster (A Disney […]

“Carnivore in the streets, person-who-has-eaten-a-carrot-masquerading-as-a-hot-dog in the sheets.”

We Are Never Meeting In Real Life by Samantha Irby

Meaty by Samantha Irby

April 23, 2019 by badkittyuno 2 Comments

I love this book. I have listened to the audio version of We Are Never Meeting In Real Life and Irby’s previous memoir, Meaty, at least three times each. Like Jenny Lawson’s Let’s Pretend This Never Happened (which I also re-read this year), I have large chunks memorized but I keep returning to it. Irby’s sense of humor and her voice (it’s this weird combination of rasp and Valley Girl and I could listen to it all day) are a perfect combination. “You know, what I […]

Good Omens is a Love Story

Good Omens by Neil Gaimann and Terry Pratchett

April 23, 2019 by tillie Leave a Comment

An angel and a demon have been working undercover on Earth for a long time. So long, in fact, that they’ve become friends – of a sort. Together one of them does bad and the other does good – usually according to whether they’re demon or not, but even so; they’ve been on Earth long enough to help each other out. And maybe, just maybe, they both like Earth just a little bit. “People couldn’t become truly holy, he said, unless they also had the […]

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