I’m not the target demographic for this book. I’m not a huge fan of memoirs/autobiographies in general, and while I am a big fan of Star Wars, I didn’t see the movies until I was older and Princess Leia was not a foundational fictional character in my youth. I didn’t idolize Carrie Fisher and I never had any desire to meet her or get her autograph (although, of course, if I had run into her in a store somewhere I would have likely been star-struck). […]
“Kate, stop being crazy!” There they were again, the most patronizing words on the planet.”
Mother, Can You Not? is a memoir by the woman who released those text messages that went viral, in which her overbearing mother continually gives out her daughter’s phone number to every man in sight in order to fix her up. I’ve never had much luck with these blogs turned into books because they often seem to rehash the same material. I figured this would be another one of those S*** My Dad Says collections. But it’s very highly rated on Goodreads and free through my […]
“My childhood in Corfu shaped my life. If I had the craft of Merlin, I would give every child the gift of my childhood.”
I feel like I should have liked this book so much more than I did. The writing was good, the subject was interesting and the animals were fantastic. But about halfway through I started to feel like I had read the whole book and it was starting all over again. It’s amazing how stories of various exotic animals in Greece can get repetitive after a while but for some reason they did. Gerry’s family decided to move to Greece (to escape the cold and wet […]
“I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to.”
I can’t believe I’ve never read Bill Bryson before, especially considering how much I love other humorists his age, like Dave Barry. Bryson has a very similar style of writing, very funny and a hyperbolic way. But I’m definitely a fan now. “It wasn’t that my mother and father were indifferent to their children’s physical well-being by any means. It was just that they seemed to believe that everything would be fine in the end and they were always right.” The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt […]
I tried to keep this review clean. I failed.
On the first page I was laughing out loud. On the third page he made a reference to star trek. I am a simple girl. I like dark haired men and references to star trek. I really like David Mitchell (not the novelist). David Mitchell is famous for a million things; his cringeworthy “Mark” in Peep Show, being the other half (or the first half I suppose) of that Mitchell and Webb Look (and Sound), his many appearances on panel shows where he’s known for dry […]
I’d miss pants too Therese
I have a feeling this will be one of many Unmentionable reviews that grace the CBR9 blog thanks to badkittyuno’s wonderful review and Jenny Lawson’s endorsement of it on The Blogess. But here goes… Therese Oneil has dropped you in Victorian America (for the most part) with a decent amount of money and all your 21st Century knowledge; however you’re still (I guess, I mean guys can read this too) woman so it doesn’t matter how much you know because life is gonna suck but you get to […]
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