This stirring coming of age tale of a young Austrian countess and the baron who steals her heart … just kidding, you totally know what you’re getting into with a Nick Offerman book, and this doesn’t disappoint. Basically he’s a less gruff, more artistic version of Rom Swanson, and it’s utterly refreshing how little Offerman cares for the stereotypical trappings of manhood his fans seem to think he epitomizes. Like he himself points out, he’s an actor, an artist by trade; it’s not like the […]
How do you solve a mystery when you can’t remember the clues?
Maude lives alone. Her carers come by and tell her not to buy anymore food, because she has too many tins of peaches already. She goes to the shops and forgets why she is there and then she buys tinned peaches. She has a daughter and her daughter sighs at her a lot and tells her not to eat so much toast. But Maude knows that Elizabeth is missing, because she has notes all over that tell her so. She writes the notes to remember […]
Let Me Explain, This Grown Little Man is Pretty Funny
Kevin Hart seems like one of those omnipresent comedians who has been around forever but when I look back on his filmography I don’t think I had seen a movie he’d starred in until The Wedding Ringer. I’d say I am a casual fan, I do like his comedy specials and plan to see Jumangi opening weekend, but as we all know I am a memoir whore so it was inevitable that his memoir would find its way into my house. It wasn’t as surprisingly […]
I’ll just re-watch Glow
I wanted to like this. I was told I would like this. But I didn’t like this. I knew who Maron was prior to Waiting for the Punch, mostly because I watched Glow, but I have never listed to his podcast. I’ve also never listened to a podcast before so perhaps this format wasn’t ever going to dazzle me. While each chapter had a distinct theme ranging from family to anxiety to the auditioning process the celebrity anecdotes were organized very haphazardly. I suppose the authors […]
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This is a 4.5 star reading experience, but I’m rounding it up to five because the audiobook increased my appreciation for Lindy as a writer and overall human person. The essays in this relatively short (but not too short) book cover a range of topics, from living with a female body, period shame, abortion, a multitude of essays covering her experiences across all parts of her life as a fat person, dealing with online trolls, sexism, rape jokes in comedy, the death of a parent, […]
Don’t read the summary (it’s weird), just read the book. You can’t summarize the wackiness that is this book.
I bought this book in a $4.95 Audible sale a while back and then just sort of abandoned it, for almost a year. Why did I do that? No idea. I had this fun little book just waiting for me all this time, and I just kept going about my life. Okay, maybe I do have some idea why. The summary of this book both intimidated me and made me go, “Hwah?” Let me break it down for you. Intimidation because: the line of succession […]
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