This is a very intense look into the really horrible ways that America has treated poor people — particularly white people — for centuries (and when I say “particularly white people”, I mean that’s the focus of the book — not that white people have been subjugated more than other races!). Like, starting with the colonies and running right up to last week. It’s a very, very long book, but if you like that sort of thing, it’s incredibly well done. I certainly learned a lot. […]
“That is the motto women should constantly repeat over and over again. Good for her! Not for me.”
I took a much-needed break from Outlander-ing last week to enjoy Amy Poehler’s Yes Please for a second time — this time on audiobook. I’m happy to say it’s still a great book, and the audio version was a lot of fun. “Hopefully as you get older, you start to learn how to live with your demon. It’s hard at first. Some people give their demon so much room that there is no space in their head or bed for love. They feed their demon and it […]
Really…is is just what it sounds like
I stumbled across Justin Valmassoi’s slightly emo tumblr a few years ago (if I remember correctly, the whole point of it initially was to get a girl, and maybe he did get the girl? I can’t remember). I read the whole thing in an afternoon, and promptly forgot about its existence until the book version popped up on my Overdrive. Reading the book version was basically the same experience: some of the caption/picture combinations made me laugh, some were kind of dumb, all of it will have evaporated […]
A heart-breaking story
Oh, this book was so hard to read — both the specific tragedy of Saroo’s story, as well as the horror of what millions of other kids like him continue to experience. It’s an excellent book, and definitely worth reading, but I will not be seeing the movie version. “My mother described her reactions better than I ever could mine: she said she was “surprised with thunder” that her boy had come back, and that the happiness in her heart was “as deep as the […]
I really need to reread Vonnegut
When I was growing up, my dad had every single Vonnegut paperback published before the mid-nineties. I read them all when I was young, focused on the fact that I was so precocious for reading Vonnegut, but not understanding a damn thing. This collection of speeches — primarily given at graduations, but also one for an award — makes me want to reread them all again, now that I might actually appreciate his words. “My Uncle Alex, who is up in Heaven now, one of the things […]
Star-Crossed Lovers for a modern age
I loved Nicola Yoon’s Everything, Everything (coming soon to a theater near you!). I wasn’t quite as drawn into this one, but still greatly enjoyed it and I feel like Yoon ended it perfectly. “There’s a Japanese phrase that I like: koi no yokan. It doesn’t mean love at first sight. It’s closer to love at second sight. It’s the feeling when you meet someone that you’re going to fall in love with them. Maybe you don’t love them right away, but it’s inevitable that you will.” […]
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