“Um, am I the only person who is walking around without underwear on today? I know I can’t be. This isn’t the first time this has happened to me, and I know if it’s happened to me more than once, it’s happened to someone else at least one time. I’m three quarters short of clean draws.” Angela Nissel’s memoir The Broke Diaries apparently started out as a blog that she wrote in college, trying to find humor in a very crappy financial situation. Flat-broke in college, occasionally […]
Don’t make it weird.
What a hilarious little book. Toddlers are Assholes: It’s Not Your Fault is pretty standard to the “parenting humor” genre, but it really worked for me more than most. I’m not a very laugh-out-loud type of person but there were more than a few times that I was honest to God fighting to control my laughter so the shaking didn’t wake up my own little asshole, hogging my bed late at night. However, there are certain conditions under which this book should be read. Read this […]
Kirk and Spock Entertain After Weeks of Meetings
This book would probably make a nice gift for the Trekkie in your life, so if you are the kind of person who starts their holiday shopping already and are in need of fun gift to add to the pile, then go on ahead and click that link up there and get some of these for yourself. I am not a huge Star Trek fan – a feel like that is a needed reminder of why I’m ranking this three stars – but I did […]
A Book for the BBC Movie At Home Set
This book has been reviewed several times for the Cannonball Read and that is how it ended up on my radar at all (which is how oh so many books end up in front of me). I am a history nerd so a rundown of thirteen historical relationships that did not end well sounded great to me. I have to tell you, I slammed through this book in two sittings. Quick review: a witty, friendly, informally written but well informed gathering of information that you […]
I Do Love a Punny Title
I don’t know why I hadn’t thought of food memoirs as their own thing. I’ve read a few, and I have a whole shelf on my Goodreads labeled “food related”, but I just never quite made the connection until Book Riot’s Read Harder Challenge included reading one and I had no trouble at all picking a couple to put on my to read list (most were there already). Cannonball Read loves Lucy Knisley, so I decided to start with hers. Because graphic memoirs and novels […]
A is for arms that hold baby tight, while pacing and muttering all through the night.
This is such a fun, stupid book. It’s been on my Goodreads list since I was pregnant (she’s closing in on 2…) and I finally got around to reading it just a couple weeks after a very early but very sad miscarriage, which I thought might be bad timing but it actually turned out to be fine. Which should tell you how seriously Let’s Panic About Babies! does not take itself. It’s basically a spoof of pregnancy/early parenting books. It’s a lightening quick read (although […]