Full disclosure: I read most of this book while drinking wine in the bathtub. Some of my memories are kind of hazy. From what I can remember though… This is not a memoir full of funny anecdotes. A common complaint on Goodreads (and one that I agree with, although I don’t necessarily consider it a drawback), is that nothing happens in this book. And that’s true–while the author is divorced with a child, and in a new relationship with a common-law husband and a dog–you don’t […]
Badkittyuno’s Review #15: Supreme Courtship by Christopher Buckley
This book was fucking hilarious. I read Thank You For Smoking a couple years ago, which is probably Buckley’s best known book. It was pretty funny. I happened to see Supreme Courtship at Half Price Books a few weeks ago, along with a shelf full of his other novels that I didn’t know existed. I grabbed Supreme Courtship on a whim, and now I plan to go buy the rest of that shelf. President Vanderdamp’s ratings are abysmal, because he’s doing something unheard for a first-term president: rather […]
Badkittyuno’s Review #14: Don’t You Forget About Me by Jancee Dunn
I’ve read two memoirs by Jancee Dunn so far this year, and now I’ve finished her foray into fiction, Don’t You Forget About Me, which was so similar to her memoirs that I had to keep reminding myself that she was not, in fact, the main character. I had the same problem with Nora Ephron, after reading two memoirs then Heartburn, in which the main character bore a striking similarity to Ephron. Still, they tell you to write what you know, and that must have worked for […]
Badkittyuno’s Review #13: Candy Girl by Diablo Cody
I know, I know, it’s Diablo Cody. But listen, I am no big fan of hers. And this book occasionally contains lines like “Love is mysterious and rad, like Steve Perry from Journey”. BUT. This book was actually pretty freaking funny, and Cody (mostly) stays out of her own way with the text. At the age of 24, after moving to Minnesota for a boy, Cody decides that she wants to try out stripping. You know, for fun. In her own words: “For me, stripping was […]