This is one of those fast paced books that you can’t put down, that completely evaporates from your mind the moment you complete it. Interesting in the moment, but no lasting impact. Zoe Maisey, perfect teenage piano player, killed several of her classmates in a drunk driving accident a few years ago (there’s more to the story, but it gets parceled out bit by bit). She served her time, and now she’s out and back in school in a new town. Her mother has remarried and had […]
Well I definitely learned a lot!
Baratunde Thurston writes for The Onion, among other things, and he brings that sense of humor along for this read. He also reveals a lot about himself and his upbringing, and makes some incredibly salient points about the status of race relations in our world today. You know, in between the advice about how to find a black friend: “If you find yourself in the unfortunate position of being black-friendless, you can either go to the nearest black church and strike up a conversation, or just […]
I had The Zombies song stuck in my head for a week
This was a really fascinating read by a well-spoken, intelligent woman with one hell of a sense of humor. “My conviction, by the way, had nothing to do with a desire to be feminine, but it had everything to do with being female. Which is an odd believe for a person born male. It certainly had nothing to do with whether I was attracted to girls or boys. This last point was the one that, years later, would most frequently elude people, including the overeducated […]
*Thursday*
Okay, you guys warned me about this one, and you were right — devastating doesn’t begin to describe it. “…You can only subject people to anguish who have a conscience. You can only punish people who have hopes to frustrate or attachments to sever; who worry what you think of them. You can really only punish people who are already a little bit good.” Written as a series of letters to her husband, Eva Khatchadourian tells us the story of a Thursday that will forever be […]