So. The Stand. I have been listening to The Stand on audiobook since before Thanksgiving. It’s 48 hours long. I’m so glad that I was able to to hit my 5th Cannonball of the year on this particular book because I love it dearly, but have never had a chance to review it for Cannonball. So here we go! “Show me a man or a woman alone and I’ll show you a saint. Give me two and they’ll fall in love. Give me three and they’ll […]
Worth reading for the Chris Farley antics alone
I wouldn’t call myself a huge David Spade fan (does anyone?) but I liked Just Shoot Me, and movies like The Benchwarmers and Joe Dirt are always fun. And then there’s Tommy Boy. My husband and I love Tommy Boy (LOVE TOMMY BOY), and while Chris Farley gets all the laughs, he couldn’t do it without Spade as his straight man. “FYI, this book is not that serious. This is meant to be read when super bored, then forgotten fifteen minutes later. It could be read cover-to-cover during one medium-to-severe […]
Raw and honest
This was not a funny book. Now, that doesn’t mean it wasn’t good — Cho’s a good writer and she bares a lot of her soul here — but it’s definitely not the ball of laughs I was expecting from a comedian’s memoir. “We must know who we are, so we can know what we want, so we don’t end up wanting the wrong thing and get it and realize we don’t want it, because by then it is too late.” Cho has endured a […]
Not exactly an advertisement for South American tourism
Is this a safe place to admit that I’ve already picked which book I want to be my #260, but it’s a super-long audiobook that I’m trying to find the free time to listen to, and as a result I have 3 mostly but not completely finished sub-par books sitting on my nightstand right now…? I did finish Road Fever, and it was not sub-par, although it did drag in a few places (it’s hard to make filling out paperwork and raising funding seem glamorous). Overall, […]