This is one of those books with a twist that will make it or break it for you. I personally felt hooked until the twist, and then thought it went pretty much downhill from there. Your mileage may vary, however. “I’ve been clinically diagnosed with sociopathy,’ I said. ‘Do you know what that means?’ ‘It means you’re a freak,’ he said. ‘It means that you’re about as important to me as a cardboard box,’ I said. ‘You’re just a thing – a piece of garbage that no […]
Yet another thing Bryan Cranston can do superbly!
I am a huge fan of Breaking Bad (actually, my husband and I are rewatching it again right now), and I loved Cranston on Malcolm in the Middle back when it was on, too. He’s an excellent actor, both doing comedy and drama, and it turns out he’s a better than average writer as well! “I will pursue something that I love — and hopefully become good at it, instead of pursuing something that I’m good at — but don’t love.” Bryan Cranston grew up with a father […]
So my favorite story was the one with the warlord…
I’m two weeks and eight reviews behind — help! “In the aftermath of an athletic humiliation on an unprecedented scale—a loss to a tortoise in a footrace so staggering that, his tormenters teased, it would not only live on in the record books, but would transcend sport itself, and be taught to children around the world in textbooks and bedtime stories for centuries; that hundreds of years from now, children who had never heard of a “tortoise” would learn that it was basically a fancy type […]
This book had some great elements that just did not come together in any cohesive way
Rob Delaney is apparently the funniest man on Twitter. I am not on Twitter, but I recognized some of the tweets in this book, so he must be funny enough to register on my non-Twitter radar. He acts, some. He’s also a decent writer, with a very sad and painful history of alcoholism that has led him to some very bad decision-making. Unfortunately, he combines all these elements (humor, career, alcoholism, stupid stunts) into one short collection of stories, with no sense of direction or cohesion. “I […]
Beautiful writing; bleak material
This is the second Elizabeth Strout book that I’ve read (the other being Olive Kitteridge), and while I cannot deny her gift as writer, I just do not enjoy her novels. The biggest issue is, she doesn’t seem to want them to be enjoyable. Like Kitteridge, The Burgess Boys is filled with unpleasant characters and terribly sad events. “You have family”, Bob said. “You have a wife who hates you. Kids who are furious with you. A brother and sister who make you insane. And a nephew who used to […]
I’ve been looking forward to this one, and it did not disappoint
I remember seeing Anna Kendrick in the first Twilight movie, and loving her. She was such a fun, bright spot in a really terrible movie. Then I saw her in Up in the Air, and thought, this one will be a star. Since then, I mainly associate her with Pitch Perfect, and her amazing Twitter account. This book is basically an expanded version of her Twitter — awkward stories that will make you cringe and crack up. “I lost a Tony award to Broadway legend Audra McDonald when I was […]
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