More YA! Are you sick of me yet? I have 2 more reviews to post after this and then I promise to leave y’all alone. This is what happens when I bring six books on vacation and read every one of them… “To me, religion is the Walmart of spirituality … I mean it’s prepackaged. Lowest common denominator. People just have to follow the present motions and rituals and rules. The don’t have to think about how the words reconcile with their own hearts. Their […]
I rarely rate celeb memoirs so badly, but wow…this wasn’t good
Celebrity memoirs are also usually very helpful to keep my mind off turbulence, but unfortunately this one sort of… sucks. So, Clinton Kelly is the guy from What Not to Wear. He’s had a few other reality TV shows, too, but I haven’t heard of any of them. You may have. This may be one of the least interesting celebrity memoirs I’ve ever read. He basically picked like 10 stories from his life and wrote about them without connecting them in anyway or making them […]
Ignore the terrible puns — it’s really pretty good
More YA! Can you tell I recently went on a trip? YA gets me through the airport and onto the plane without losing my mind. Thank you, YA! This was a sweet and funny story about a girl who has literally done nothing but be a ballerina her entire life. Now, just short of graduating high school, she has discovered that it’s not something she can do for the rest of her life. In a panic over a ballet (and also a boy, because this is […]
“I needed to see more from my movies than the extremely tragic black woman, or the magic helpless Negro, or the many black men in dresses.”
Okay so I had no idea who Issa Rae was before starting this book, but I saw it on Overdrive as part of the Women’s History Month collection and absolutely loved the cover, so here we are! I’m glad I picked it up because it was really funny and well written and I’m glad to know who she is now. “Girls, New Girl, 2 Broke Girls. What do they all have in common? The universal gender classification, “girl,” is white. In all three of these […]