This book is about a struggling writer and his mid-life crisis, and begins with him having a discussion with his flaccid penis. I have to say, I liked it quite a bit more than I expected, based on all that! “Married silence is a specific kind of silence, typically one in which the woman goes mute while the man pretends as if it’s perfectly normal that she hasn’t spoken in hours.” Tom Violet has been struggling with his novel for years, while working a dead end job for […]
“Just because you see something doesn’t mean it’s really there”
This is one of those sad, beautiful books that will stick with you — definitely one of the better YA novels I’ve read this year. “Susie: Okay, Calvin. But you know what? You can’t say, youcan’texpectanythingfrommeI’mbroken! And turn around the next minute and say, ohwoeismeeverybodytreatsmelikeI’mbroken! Which one is it? I can treat you the way I really feel, or I can treat you careful. Me: Real. Just be real.” As a kid, I loved the Calvin & Hobbes series. My best friend had all of the comic book […]
Eleanor West’s Home for Wayward Children
I LOVED this. My biggest complaint is that I wish it was about ten times longer. “For us, places we went were home. We didn’t care if they were good or evil or neutral or what. We cared about the fact that for the first time, we didn’t have to pretend to be something we weren’t. We just got to be. That made all the difference in the world.” Eleanor West’s Home for Wayward Children serves a unique purpose: it acts as a boarding school for […]
The sexiest of the palsies
I will confess that I’d never heard of Zach Anner — despite his rather impressive web presence — until y’all started posting reviews about his memoir. But I enjoyed reading his book, so if you’ve never heard of him either, you still might want to give this one a shot, especially if you like funny books written by funny guys with really good hair (see his author photo below). Zach was born two months early, with cerebral palsy — which confines him to a wheelchair. […]
“This is your country, this is your world, this is your body, and you must find some way to live within the all of it.”
Oh, this book. This book, you guys. “But all our phrasing—race relations, racial chasm, racial justice, racial profiling, white privilege, even white supremacy—serves to obscure that racism is a visceral experience, that it dislodges brains, blocks airways, rips muscle, extracts organs, cracks bones, breaks teeth. You must never look away from this. You must always remember that the sociology, the history, the economics, the graphs, the charts, the regressions all land, with great violence, upon the body.” Between the World and Me is a letter […]
Jay Porter is back
Fifteen years after the events of Black Water Rising, Jay Porter is back to defend the powerless, and uncover the odd conspiracy or two, in his hometown of Houston, Texas. [Spoilers for Black Water Rising] It’s been 15 years since Jay won a huge (HUGE) settlement against Cole Oil, but he still hasn’t seen a dime. It did give a boost to his practice, which now focuses primarily on environmental law, but he’s about ready to close it down — as soon as his last case gets settled. But, […]
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