“Yo, there’s this new comedian Eddie. My parents don’t like him because he swears a lot. But you should hear the shit he says! Racism, janky food, fucking white people, he takes ‘em on. He keeps it mad real. He’s funny as shit ’cause he’s been through some shit! And he’s about to BLOW. UP. He does stand-up, television- he’s everywhere!” “I heard of him. Eddie Murphy is the man!” “That dude who is Donkey from Shrek?! Naw, I’m talking about a real comedian. Eddie HUANG, man.” […]
God is the color of water.
I read The Color of Water by James McBride for my Honors Composition I course (eleven years ago now! Yikes), and I remembered liking it. My friend F had this month’s pick for our book club, and she chose this one, so that we could talk about race in America. If you’ve followed my reviews for any length of time, you know I don’t read a lot of nonfiction, because I often have issues with the writing or style. I felt that The Color of […]
Is This A Kissing Book?
This book is the memoir Cary Elwes wrote about filming The Princess Bride. I raced through this book in something like four days of actual reading. This is a feather-light float down memory lane. This book is also not meant for people who have worked in Hollywood, or who know anything at all about the movie-making process. Elwes is very kind to hold everyone’s hand through concepts like “Development Hell” and I found all of this a little boring. The book comes alive, however, when […]
A Loss You’ll Truly Feel
I’m on a true-crime spree, which is safer than the alternative, I suppose. I was actually turned on to this book by local author, Corey Lynn Feyman. He mentioned to me he knew a man whose brother murdered his parents on a boat trip, so the man wrote a book about it. NBD. I was intrigued and easily found the book at my local library. This is the story of an around the world boat trip that Jody and Loren Edwards embarked upon with their […]
Girl Walks into a Bar…
I read Tina Fey’s Bossypants pre-Cannonballread and Amy Poheler’s Yes, Please last year, both women mention Rachel Dratch in their memoirs because they were friendly in Chicago and on SNL at the same time. For the last few years Girl Walks into a Bar… has been on my recommendations lists from Barnes & Nobel, Amazon and Goodreads- so it was time to give Ms. Dratch a spin. Girl is different than her colleagues’ memoirs because SNL wasn’t the stepping stone for her career, it was […]
The Phantom Menace of Presidential Memoirs
I think I did a good job while reading George W. Bush’s Decision Points in differentiating the man from his presidency. I was able to judge the book not by the character of its author, but by the character of its content, and I came away with an appreciation for the man that I had never had before. So I was interested to see how Bill Clinton’s voluminous memoir would impact my perceptions of the man and his presidency. A man, incidentally, whose accomplishments I […]
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