I’m still wayyyyy behind on reviews. I read this now almost two months ago, and I’m nowhere caught up in my reviews. I’m on vacation again (this time at the in-laws’), and I’m all caught up with my summer class grading. Here’s hoping I can do the same with CBR reviews. Fingers crossed! Now, for the review/link: While I’ve not been great at keeping up with Emma Watson’s Our Shared Shelf Goodreads Book Club, I’ve certainly tried to keep up with the reading so far. […]
Bad Luck. But Also Good Luck.
I’m pretty sure the first time I encountered Tig Notaro’s work was in that This American Life Story, but it might also have been when she had a role in the sweet film “In A World.” I watched her documentary, and then her comedy special, and really enjoyed both. I find her to be intriguing and unpretentious, and so had to pick up her memoir. If you have somehow managed to not heard her story, Ms. Notaro experienced a pretty brutal spring four years ago: […]
then I heard the chords that broke the chains I had up on me
I apologize in advance for this review because I’m writing it almost two months after I finished this book so it might not be particularly long or particularly specific (and I’ve had to refresh my memory using the Internet several times already). My friend loaned me Perfect from Now On both because the writer, John Sellers, was about our age (give or take about four years) and he thought I might enjoy it. For the most part, I did. I’m always interested in other peoples’ […]
I finished this book, exhaled, and flipped it over to the beginning again.
Reading the late Paul Kalanithi’s spectacular memoir When Breath Becomes Air, a meditation about love, literature and science in the face of a terminal cancer diagnosis was a strange experience “The good news is that I’ve already outlived two Brontes, Keats and Stephen Crane,” Kalanithi wrote to a friend. “The bad news is that I haven’t written anything.” He was trying to be funny, using the kind of dark humor you get from people facing the unfaceable. But it also revealed Kalanithi’s tremendous ambition. He […]
Hmmmm.
The day this book (which I had pre-ordered) was released, it was in the 80s out. I was walking home from work wearing two tank tops and covered with a sweater, because even though I was walking 1.5 miles home (uphill) in 80+ degree weather, I have big boobs, and those of us with big boobs know that hot weather clothing and a large chest don’t mix well if one wants to make it through the day without leers and snide comments. Of course, that’s […]
The Quiet Heartbreak of Unreached Potential
In May 2012, Marina Keegan had a lot to look forward to. She graduated magna cum laude from Yale, had a play being produced at the New York International Fringe Festival, and lined up a job at The New Yorker. Just before she graduated, Marina wrote an essay titled “The Opposite of Loneliness.” Five days after receiving her diploma, Marina died in a car crash. She was 22 years old. “We’re so young. We’re so young.” Marina wrote in her final essay. “We’re twenty-two years […]
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