Celebrity memoirs are also usually very helpful to keep my mind off turbulence, but unfortunately this one sort of… sucks. So, Clinton Kelly is the guy from What Not to Wear. He’s had a few other reality TV shows, too, but I haven’t heard of any of them. You may have. This may be one of the least interesting celebrity memoirs I’ve ever read. He basically picked like 10 stories from his life and wrote about them without connecting them in anyway or making them […]
“I needed to see more from my movies than the extremely tragic black woman, or the magic helpless Negro, or the many black men in dresses.”
Okay so I had no idea who Issa Rae was before starting this book, but I saw it on Overdrive as part of the Women’s History Month collection and absolutely loved the cover, so here we are! I’m glad I picked it up because it was really funny and well written and I’m glad to know who she is now. “Girls, New Girl, 2 Broke Girls. What do they all have in common? The universal gender classification, “girl,” is white. In all three of these […]
“If your world does not include enough access to different people, and their world does not include enough access to you, you are speaking from ignorance.”
I am a huge fan of oral histories, whether discussions of television shows or movies. And I watched The Daily Show religiously until Jon Stewart took his sabbatical a few years ago. So this book was definitely right up my alley. Thank you whoever reviewed it recently and recommended it to me! “The outlandish 2000 election and Bush’s victory had come along at the perfect time, helping Stewart, the correspondents, and the writers sharpen The Daily Show’s tone of bemused mockery. The next world-changing events […]
Hard to compete with a plagues, tbh
So I picked this book up after finishing Jennifer Wright’s fantastic book about plagues. I’ll never be interested in historical breakups the way that I am in plagues (who could be, really?), but I still enjoyed her writing style in this book like I did the other. Several other people have reviewed it, but in case you missed those — she basically picks 13 breakups throughout history and explains how a really terrible they were. Like, really terrible. It’s a pretty simple concept and a […]
If you’ve seen the comic, you know what this book is
This book kept popping up in my Amazon Prime as a free download, but I never payed it any attention until KimMiE” reviewed it a month ago and mentioned that the author was the guy who makes the XKCD comics. That was all I needed to hear. Taken from the “What If?” Section of the website, where he answers the internet’s most inexplicable science-ish questions (for instance: what would happen if everyone actually had one soulmate, one random person in the world?). His answers are […]
“Keep in mind though, I’m a PEZ dispenser and I’m in the abnormal Psychology textbook. Who says you can’t have it all?”
Like half a dozen other Cannonballers I have gone back through the Carrie Fisher catalog in the months following her untimely passing. The Princess Diarist, Shockaholic and now Wishful Drinking (yeah, I realize I went backwards but I read them chronologically the last go around). “If my life wasn’t funny it would just be true, and that is unacceptable.” I listened to the audio-book this go around, which I wasn’t ready to do with her other two memoirs, and it really punches you in the face how […]
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