I wanted to quote this entire book. So many passages had me screaming, yes, yes, yes. Gay hits the nail on the head in her collection of scattered essays going all the way from scrabble to movie reviews to society. She is definitely strongest when she takes something in society and picks it apart based on phenomena in literature. I imagine a lot of cannonballers enjoy reading book reviews and if so Gay is a tremendous joy. She does battle with some inconsistencies, but it […]
The utter depravity of humanity
Joseph K wakes up one day in the absence of his breakfast. Instead strange men are waiting in his apartment with the order for his arrest. They eat his breakfast, but they will not tell him the charges against him nor the details of his inexplicable arrest. Despite his arrest he is not incarcerated and he cannot get information on his hearings or court procedures. Instead he is expected to go to his office and carry on with his daily life as he awaits his […]
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, […]
A marriage picked apart.
I love finding books for a dollar, buried underneath boring cookbooks and meaningless scandinavian crime-lit, and then have these books be something special. Also, Kate Winslet was on the cover and I’ve always been a little bit in love with her. I’d heard about the movie, but not enough to know the premise. That’s a good thing, because the premise is trite; April and Frank move into Revolutionary Road. They are the young beautiful couple that everyone envies and the book is dedicated to picking […]