“In 1938… the year’s #1 newsmaker was not FDR, Hitler, or Mussolini. Nor was it Lou Gehrig or Clark Gable. The subject of the most newspaper column inches in 1938 wasn’t even a person. It was an undersized, crooked-legged racehorse named Seabiscuit.” I really liked Laura Hillenbrand’s Unbroken — not just the story (probably one of the most depressing things I’ve read all year) but the way she told it. I liked it enough to bump up another of her biographies on my TBR shelf: Seabiscuit: An American […]
“A long tale, like a tall Tower, must be built a stone at a time.”
“The road and the tale have both been long, would you not say so? The trip has been long and the cost has been high… but no great thing was ever attained easily. A long tale, like a tall Tower, must be built a stone at a time.” And so I’ve finished my second visit with the Dark Tower series. I read the whole series for the first time in 2006, I think. The seventh book had just been released and my best friend insisted […]
“I AM GOING TO BE FURIOUSLY HAPPY, OUT OF SHEER SPITE.”
Ah, Jenny Lawson. You magnificent unicorn. I loved Let’s Pretend This Never Happened when it came out (and I recently revisited it on audiobook, which made it even funnier) and while Furiously Happy touches more on Lawson’s depression and anxiety, she still manages to infuse it with that special Bloggess touch. “It’s about taking those moments when things are fine and making them amazing, because those moments are what make us who we are, and they’re the same moments we take into battle with us” Lawson […]
Anything but ordinary
After Shirley Jackson’s death in 1965, her children found a treasure trove of unpublished short stories in Jackson’s attic. They cleaned them up, without changing much, and compiled this book: Just an Ordinary Day, adding in some published short stories (from various magazines and newspapers) at the end. While my familiarity with Jackson lies mostly with her horror — The Lottery, The Haunting of Hill House — this collections covers a variety of genres. In fact, it contains very little horror; instead it focuses on strange happenings in […]
I would have been first in line for another book starring Thea Sperelakis
Oh, Michael Palmer. My best friend introduced me to this author in sixth grade, and we loved him. I devoured her whole collection of his books, medical thrillers that usually featured at least one dirty scene. I still have a copy of my favorite, Flashback, in which I earmarked the dirty scene so Cat could read it in the lunch-line. Beyond that one page of kissing and occasional nipples, we loved these books for the medicine and plotting. Palmer wrote The Second Opinion in 2009, and while I haven’t read […]
I totally skimmed the Real Housewives stuff
I grabbed this at a book sale for 50 cents. Andy Cohen’s name seemed vaguely familiar, and hey, I like pop culture! I realized after starting it that he’s that Bravo guy — he was head of development for years, hosts a talk show and executive produces Real Housewives. I watch literally nothing on Bravo — unless they’re rerunning Grey’s Anatomy — and couldn’t pick a Housewife out of a lineup if my life depended on it, but I liked the book anyway. So if you’re a […]
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