I tried guys, I really did. I tried to like this book and Olivia Munn, who I didn’t really even have an opinion about prior to reading it. I had never heard of Olivia Munn before she was on the Daily Show, and I just barely remember seeing her on that. It seems like she got a lot of hate for 1) being gorgeous and 2) being very vocal and proud of her geekiness. She’s broken more into national consciousness, I think, with Newsroom, but I […]
Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman
Practical Magic is one of my favorite movies of all time. I love the music, the love story, and above all, the aunts. If Dianne Weist and Stockard Channing were to show up at my door, right this moment, wearing looney hats and torn stockings, I would follow them to the ends of the earth, no questions asked. I happened across the novel that Practical Magic was based on, and knew I had to read it. Usually I don’t like to read a book after […]
The Harm in Asking by Sara Barron
Sara Barron is really not afraid of embarrassing the hell out of herself for the sake of a good story. Unlike the Olivia Munn memoir I just finished, in which Munn constantly has this tone of “Oh, I’m such a dork, such a loser, ha ha ha” which makes her seem desperate to be laughed with, not at, Barron simply lets you laugh without coaching it to make herself seem better. After all, there’s an entire chapter in this book devoted to her horrific flatulence, […]
If I Stay by Gayle Forman
I liked this more than I expected to, which isn’t saying much since I had some pretty low expectations going in (my sister’s recommendation was basically, “it’s not bad but the ending is stupid”–she was right). “All I can think about is how fucked up it would be for your life to end here, now. I mean I know that your life if fucked up no matter what now, forever. And I’m not dumb enough to think that I can undo that, that anyone can. […]