This will be either the most interesting or the most boring addiction memoir you’ve ever read. I can’t promise it ever gets “harrowing,” but I can promise that I tried- I really tried- to make it funny. In the mid to late 1990s Patton Oswalt, who had recently moved to Los Angeles, had a debilitating addiction. It wasn’t booze or drugs but it was equally crippling- Movies. More specifically, although not exclusively, classic films; he had five ‘encyclopedias’ of Film Noir and Cult movies that […]
Y’all are going to love this one
Okay, speaking directly to those of y’all who love Mary Roach and that book about being a woman in Victorian times — just go read this book. It is by far the funniest book about plagues that I have ever read. And I am saying that as a person who has read multiple books about plagues. Jennifer Wright, who also wrote that book about bad breakups throughout time that most of y’all didn’t seem to like very much, wrote Get Well Soon about 14 different plagues throughout […]
“That is the motto women should constantly repeat over and over again. Good for her! Not for me.”
I took a much-needed break from Outlander-ing last week to enjoy Amy Poehler’s Yes Please for a second time — this time on audiobook. I’m happy to say it’s still a great book, and the audio version was a lot of fun. “Hopefully as you get older, you start to learn how to live with your demon. It’s hard at first. Some people give their demon so much room that there is no space in their head or bed for love. They feed their demon and it […]
Jones, Victoria Jones
They Came to Baghdad Starting off the 2017 Cannonball with a book I have never read by one of my favorite authors. They Came to Baghdad is an Agatha Christie book but there are no delightful British spinsters or fussy Belgians on the case. Instead this is the story of a young British woman who is failing spectacularly at being a career gal in London shortly after World War II. She’s indifferent to typing and a confident spinner of half-truths and white lies. I don’t […]
“In conclusion, women are just awful, and periods prove it.”
I wouldn’t have known about Unmentionable: The Victorian Lady’s Guide to Sex, Marriage and Manners if it hadn’t been for the reviews on this site, so a BIG thank you to all of the Cannonballers whose reviews placed it firmly on my radar, leading to much cackling and interruptions of my footie-watching boyfriend with a ‘Listen to this…’. Tackling all of the daily realities of Victorian ladies – an era that we’re visiting as relatively wealthy, European women so as to ensure things stay on […]
Your Moment of Zen
I have watched The Daily Show from the beginning and only recently gave up on it. I loved it more some years than others and then gradually lost interest and stopped. That is also how my reading of this book went. I gave up with a few dozen pages left because the drain Jon Stewart was feeling really drains the fun from the last part of this book. But if you love the show and all the contributors than this is an interesting retelling of […]
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