Comedy/Humor

The title of the book pretty much covers it.

This Is Ridiculous, This Is Amazing by Jason Good

August 13, 2016 by Blingle Bells Leave a Comment

3.5 stars, rounded up to 4. I’m really not sure I have 250 words to say about this book. It’s 71 lists about parenthood. They’re not hilarious, but they’re pretty funny. Maybe not laugh out loud, but definitely chuckle out loud. It’s good to know other kids are as weird as mine. On a list of the cool new things you’ll get to do as a parent? Let someone stare blankly at you and eat a popsicle while you pee! Yep, that’s happened. Games you […]

The Picture Version of Texts With Jane Eyre

Hark! A Vagrant by Kate Beaton

August 8, 2016 by faintingviolet 2 Comments

I’m glad I lent crystalclear the Hamilton book when I had it out from the library, or I’d feel in real friend debt, since she has been lending me books all year. This is another delivery from her, and it served as a palate cleanser between Children of God, When a Scot Ties the Knot, and The House of the Spirits. Yes, I have weird reading habits, Casino Royale was in there too for a short time. I feel this book works best in that […]

A little Cannonball housekeeping, and a 5 star comic.

Hyperbole and a Half by Allie Brosh

March 28, 2016 by Blingle Bells 3 Comments

Before I get down to this review, I have a little housekeeping to take care of. I want to let you guys know that I’m going to start adding a content warning to My reviews. A friend of mine who is a good and sensitive soul recently pointed out that the phrase “trigger warning” could itself be upsetting to someone who has experienced gun violence, and besides, I think that phrase takes us all back to Livejournal in 2002 a little too much. And maybe […]

Adulthood for beginners

Adulthood is a Myth: A Sarah "Scribbles" Collection by Sarah Andersen

March 8, 2016 by Caitlin_D 4 Comments

I haven’t read a true comic book since Calvin and Hobbes in grade school but I am in love with Sarah Andersen’s cartoons, which I discovered through Instagram, and impulsively bought her new book (out today!) with part of a birthday gift card. While it took all of fifteen minutes to read it was an enjoyable fifteen minutes- also, the cover page has felt letters so that’s a plus! I wished Andersen had taken a page out of Allie Brosh’s book and inserted some personal […]

An Evening with Betty White

If You Ask Me (And of Course You Won't) by Betty White

August 2, 2015 by faintingviolet 3 Comments

I have a summertime tradition of reading autobiographies. I tend to stick with ones by comedians of various stripes, but that’s more happenstance than plan. I have had If You Ask Me (And of Course You Won’t) on my to read list since sometime in the winter of 2012. Well, I finally got my act together and here we are. I’m happy to report that if you love Betty White (and seriously, if you don’t how do you even live with yourself?) and are in […]

A Silly Little Collection of Historical Facts

Napoleon's Privates: 2,500 Years of History Unzipped by Tony Perottet

March 5, 2014 by faintingviolet Leave a Comment

Synopsis Via Goodreads: When Tony Perrottet heard that Napoleon’s “baguette” had been stolen by his disgruntled doctor a few days after the Emperor’s death, he rushed out to New Jersey. Why? Because that’s where an eccentric American collector who had purchased Napoleon’s member at a Parisian auction now kept the actual relic in an old suitcase under his bed. The story of Napoleon’s privates triggered Perrottet’s quest to research other such exotic sagas from history, to discover the actual evidence behind the most famous age-old […]

Melina on What Happens When the Past is ForgottenI liked the book and was looking at it as potential new read for my classes (as we study Beowulf and Gawain as well), but...
Emmalita on You don’t have to be what they want you to be.Thank you. If you haven’t read the Ancillary books, I do recommend them.
esmemoria on You don’t have to be what they want you to be.In the Imperial Radch series, there are no ethical empires. Empires are a pyramid scheme and require a constant source of populations to other and...
LittlePlat on History and its Bastards. Greedy, Greedy Bastards.I can see that; everything mentioned on how the Congolese villagers were forced to harvest rubber is horrific. I really didn't want to give too many...
B.L. Crook on His wife is acting different and it smells like infidelityHi! This book is coming out in English soon by Open Letter Books (my translation). So now others can enjoy it too.

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