I borrowed George Takei’s Oh Myyy! from Caitlin_D and honestly, you can probably just read her assessment of it since I agree wholeheartedly. It’s a collection of memes amid Takei’s take on the internet. Despite the fact that he mentions several times that his Facebook page aims itself (successfully!) towards the demographics of men and women in their twenties and thirties, this book sounds like it was written for people of his own generation who don’t understand how the internet works. It’s funny — he’s a […]
Well that was disappointing
So I’ve mentioned before that Practical Demonkeeping is one of my favorite Christopher Moore books. I reread it recently because I found a copy of the sequel at Half Price Books and wanted to refresh my memory of the first book before reading the second. The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove is that sequel and it was honestly pretty terrible. It doesn’t feature hardly any of the characters from the first book, although it does have the same setting. I’m not really sure why he bothered to […]
“Of all the things I am not very good at, living in the real world is perhaps the most outstanding.”
I have 9 reviews that I need to post, so forgive me if some of them are on the briefer side! This Bill Bryson book is a collection of newspaper articles that spanned several years in the nineties. Basically, Bryson went to go live in England for 20 years and when he came back he was slightly startled to see changes — not only how much America was different from England, but also how it had changed in the years that he’d been gone. So […]
Moments of Zen
This oral history of the Jon Stewart years of The Daily Show is a mostly-entertaining look behind the scenes of the influential show. It is also a backdoor history of the last 17 or so years. Seriously, if you’re too young to really remember the Bush v. Gore election or the invasion of Iraq, you could learn a bit from reading this book. As an oral history, one of the more impressive attributes of the book is the many luminaries they got to speak. Senator […]
Be careful what you wish for…
Ah, the glory of the library basement book sale, where books are $0.50, or even free! Thanks to the generosity of people donating books during the holiday season, my local library was practically begging people to take their donated and overstock books to give them forever homes. I am a little sad to learn that this one was my library’s only copy, but since it hadn’t been checked out in so long it got booted to the sale bin. I had a few free hours […]
Wherein they ditch the jalopy and I’m okay with it
As a kid, I was as likely to beg my mom to buy me an Archie Comic as a candy bar in the checkout line. She would buy them even when I didn’t ask and then I’d have to wait for her to finish to wrest each new double digest from her. More than once, I contemplated sending away for the fan club advertised in the back pages. I loved the whole crew. Archie. Betty. Midge and Moose. Rare appearances by Valerie! I loved the […]
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