So I don’t watch Empire, and I haven’t seen Hidden Figures (yet). But one of my all-time favorite blow-em-up up movies is Smokin’ Aces, and Taraji P Henson’s role as a badass assassin is one of my favorites. Her scene with Alicia Keyes and David Proval, trying to explain their plan to break into the hotel cracks me up every time. If you haven’t seen this movie, you really should. For one thing, it’s one of Chris Pine’s finer […]
Nothing from my childhood seems to hold up except Stephen King
As I believe I’ve mentioned before, my best friend in the whole wide world and I bonded initially over books in 6th grade. One of the things that she introduced me to was the concept of a medical thriller. She was a huge fan of Robin Cook, and Michael Palmer, and Michael Cordy. In the years since I initially devoured those books en masse, I have revisited them occasionally — and found myself to be disappointed pretty much every time. Not only at the writing […]
“It’s so much easier to accept your feminine role in this world if you don’t struggle.”
“Have you ever wished you could live in an earlier, more romantic era?” — No. I promise you don’t want to do that. I picked up this book after a recommendation from The Bloggess, and we all know that The Bloggess can do no wrong. Unmentionable is a behind-the-scenes look at just about everything a woman could experience in Victorian times. It’s very funny, and full of all sorts of disgusting details that you probably (definitely) don’t need to know. For those of us (Mrs. […]
“I’m working on my own life story. I don’t mean I’m putting it together; no, I’m taking it apart.”
I borrow the The Tent from Caitlin_D after she complained that she didn’t like it, and possibly just does not like short stories. Caitlin, I am determined to prove you wrong! I love Margaret Atwood, and in fact beside Stephen King, she’s probably the one author whose short stories I actually seek out. “I suffer from my own multiplicity. Two or three images would have been enough, or four, or five. That would be allowed for a firm idea: This is she. As it is, I’m watery, I […]
Every memoir offers something new
I’ve read a lot of these memoirs written by people who had messed up childhoods, in one way or the other. Many share characteristics, usually an unhinged mother, but there’s always a new focus that keeps me coming back for more. In Swallow the Ocean, Laura Flynn recounts her childhood growing up with two sisters and a schizophrenic mother. Laura was in the position of her mother’s “golden child” for most of her life, while her mentally unbalanced mother took out most of her anger and […]
“Oh, aye, Sassenach. I am your master . . . and you’re mine. Seems I canna possess your soul without losing my own.”
So one of my goals for CBR this year is to go through the Outlander series again (which I’ve read through several times over the last decade), this time exclusively on audiobook. The first book is the shortest, and clocks in at 32 hours — so I have a feeling this is going to take a good amount of time. It’s a wonderful listening experience though, especially if you enjoy the accents, which I do! So if you’re not familiar with the story of Outlander: our hero […]
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