This is so not my usual reading material, but my aunt recommended it and was kind enough to lend me a copy, so I figured I would give it a shot. I ended up really enjoying most of it, and I’m glad I tried something outside my comfort zone. As a bit of background, I am a liberal atheist who lives in a very conservative state and works for a very Christian company. My parents made us go to church until I was a teenager, then stopped for […]
Straddling that fine line between funny and obnoxious
There are parts of Sarah Silverman’s memoir, The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee, that are very, very funny. Most of them involve her family, primarily her father and his accent, written out phonetically and played for great laughs. And Silverman, like many comedians, is great at poking fun at herself, and it’s fun to laugh along with her. She also tells great stories about the men and women she has worked with over the years — doing stand up with Louis C.K., the writers on The Sarah […]
The Ballad of Susan and Roland
Oh, this is definitely one of the best Dark Tower books. We’ve known all along that something terrible happened to a girl named Susan Delgado, and that this terrible thing affected Roland deeply, turning him into the man he is now. And here, in Wizard and Glass, we learn the whole story. “True love, like any other strong and addicting drug, is boring — once the tale of encounter and discovery is told, kisses quickly grow stale and caresses tiresome… except, of course, to those who share the kisses, […]
See Also: You Did It to Yourself
Another celebrity memoir, in which said celebrity overcomes a difficult childhood through personal strength and the ability to laugh at his-/herself, and is now wildly popular for said ability. Aisha Tyler’s Self-Inflicted Wounds is also the second celebrity memoir I’ve read in the last week (the first being Kristen Johnston’s) in which the writer was ridiculed mercilessly for her incredible height (both ladies are 6 feet tall), but now a general consensus would indicate that their height contributes greatly to their general hotness. “I was still very much a kid […]