As far as I can tell, I’m the fifth Cannonballer so far to read and review Amy Poehler’s new book Yes, Please. I’m a huge fan of Parks and Recreation and the episode where Ann and Chris leave nearly destroyed me, because Ann and Leslie’s friendship in many ways reminds me so much of that between me and my best friend Lydia (who unfortunately lives across the Atlantic in New York City). I’ve liked Amy Poehler in Mean Girls and on SNL, and I love […]
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yes,please
Amy Poehler is my hero. She’s funny and sassy and she wrote a kick ass book. It doesn’t follow the normal Chronological Celebrity Memoir formula: growing up, struggling, big break… Rather she jumps around in time and has a bit of an ‘advice’ vibe going on but it’s all amazing. There are pictures, and I love me some celebrity candid photos. She touches very briefly on her divorce from Will Arnett but she gushes about her new relationship with Nick Kroll. Her children are mentioned […]
Amy Poehler makes it a Double Cannonball
First things first: 2014 has been a crazy year. Amidst writing my dissertation, teaching, facing health issues that (thankfully) have been resolved, and unexpectedly having to buy a new car, it’s been hard to believe that I could fit in 52 books this year. And yet I have managed to double that number. I credit pretending that Netflix does not exist in order to spend more time reading in bed, as well as discovering that I *do* like audiobooks on my 90-mile drive to work/school. […]
Yes, more please.
I love Amy Poehler and I could not write a bad review of her new book, “Yes, please!” if you held a gun to my head. This review will be highly biased, but since no sane person could not love and adore Poehler, I have a feeling that this won’t really matter much anyways. In this book she is deeply honest. While the book covers her childhood, her time at SNL and her stint at Parks and Recreation it might follow a pretty standard formula, […]
Good for you, not for me.
Lumberjanes Volume 1: Beware the Kitten Holy by Noelle Stevenson
Lumberjanes Volume 2: Friendship to the Max by Noelle Stevenson
I don’t even want to write this review because I like Noelle Stevenson so much, but I think “Miss Quinzella Thiskwin Penniquiqul Thistle Crumpet’s Camp for Hardcore Lady Types” should have been a clue that Lumberjanes is just too much whimsy for me. The Lumberjanes graphic novel series (which is still ongoing), created by Noelle Stevenson of Nimona fame (another book I didn’t enjoy as much as everyone around me seemed to) is about five kids attending a girl scout type summer camp, the supernatural mischief […]
Non-Fiction Roundup
Life Among the Savages (Jacksons #1) by Shirley Jackson
#IMomSoHard by Kristin Hensley, Jen Smedley
Where Am I Now? by Mara Wilson
Little Panic: Dispatches from an Anxious Life by Amanda Stern
Raising Demons by Shirley Jackson
Now that I’m done with Bingo, I am determined not to let myself get behind on reviews again. I expect this determination to last AT LEAST 3 days, til I leave town for two trips over two weeks, finish 15 books and fall into a black hole again. But first! Some non-fiction reviews. (5 stars) Life Among the Savages (Jacksons #1) by Shirley Jackson Other than a few references (like lighting up cigarette on the way to deliver her third child!), Jackson could have written […]