I wouldn’t call myself a huge David Spade fan (does anyone?) but I liked Just Shoot Me, and movies like The Benchwarmers and Joe Dirt are always fun. And then there’s Tommy Boy. My husband and I love Tommy Boy (LOVE TOMMY BOY), and while Chris Farley gets all the laughs, he couldn’t do it without Spade as his straight man. “FYI, this book is not that serious. This is meant to be read when super bored, then forgotten fifteen minutes later. It could be read cover-to-cover during one medium-to-severe […]
Raw and honest
This was not a funny book. Now, that doesn’t mean it wasn’t good — Cho’s a good writer and she bares a lot of her soul here — but it’s definitely not the ball of laughs I was expecting from a comedian’s memoir. “We must know who we are, so we can know what we want, so we don’t end up wanting the wrong thing and get it and realize we don’t want it, because by then it is too late.” Cho has endured a […]
Not exactly an advertisement for South American tourism
Is this a safe place to admit that I’ve already picked which book I want to be my #260, but it’s a super-long audiobook that I’m trying to find the free time to listen to, and as a result I have 3 mostly but not completely finished sub-par books sitting on my nightstand right now…? I did finish Road Fever, and it was not sub-par, although it did drag in a few places (it’s hard to make filling out paperwork and raising funding seem glamorous). Overall, […]
“Ministry of Magic (M.O.M) Classification: XXXXX Known wizard killer / impossible to train or domesticate / or anything Hagrid likes”
First of all, Rowling wrote this book in order to donate the proceedings to charity (specifically, Comic Relief). J.K. Rowling rocks. Also, the book is a lot of fun, which also rocks. And finally, I have a weird thing for Eddie Redmayne, and now I can go see the movie! “Harry: This book belongs to Harry Potter. Ron: Shared by Ron Weasley, because his fell apart. Hermione: Why don’t you buy a new one then? Ron: Write on your own book, Hermione. Hermione: You bought […]
“It is easy to be liked when the world has no jagged edges, when life is electric blankets and peach ice cream. But to be beloved, a man needs a dragon.”
I read another book by Rick Bragg earlier this year, and I liked it despite the fact that Rick Bragg wrote it about himself, and…he’s kind of an ass. BUT this book focuses on his rather impressive grandfather, who comes across as much more likable, and Bragg still manages to write it in the friendly chatting style that I really enjoyed in All Over but the Shoutin’. “It is true that almost everyone in the foothills farmed and hunted, so there were no breadlines, no […]
I want this rewritten as a regular novel!
I wasn’t entirely certain whether or not I liked this book as I was reading it, until I got to the end and realized I really wanted to read the sequel. So I guess that’s a fairly positive recommendation. My main issue was with the style in which is was told. “Generally speaking, people tend not to question what they’ve been told was true. Scientists are no different; they’ve just been told a lot more things.” 17 years ago, Rose Franklin falls into a hole […]
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