I followed Gaffigan’s Dad is Fat with his other book — Food: A Love Story. This one should reach an even wider audience, since who doesn’t like to eat? “I’m convinced that anyone who doesn’t like Mexican food is a psychopath.” “There’s an old Weight Watchers saying: “Nothing tastes as good as thin feels.” I for one can think of a thousand things that taste better than thin feels. Many of them are two-word phrases that end with cheese (Cheddar cheese, blue cheese, grilled cheese). Even unsalted […]
“Raising kids may be a thankless job with ridiculous hours, but at least the pay sucks.”
Caitlin_D recently reviewed this one, too — also fairly positively. I am a parent of two small, very loud boys (so, so loud). She doesn’t have kids (…yet) although she spends a lot of time with my boys and her sister-in-laws’ kids. My point is, you probably don’t need to be a parent to find Jim Gaffigan at least a little funny. “Every night before I get my one hour of sleep, I have the same thought: “Well, that’s a wrap on another day of acting like I […]
Way worse than any Texas summer *I’ve* experienced!
And so I went from a book written about a family experiencing a financial depression in the 2030s, to a novel set in the 1930s during the Dust Bowl. While I Will Send Rain does a decent job of setting up the background of the Great Depression, I agree with whoever else reviewed it on CBR (sorry, couldn’t find it!): there’s way too much focus on the family and not enough of the historical information that I wanted. Set in 1934, I Will Send Rain begins with […]
“Plots set in the future are about what people fear in the present.”
I kept thinking while listening to this audiobook: “This is what Orson Scott Card would write if he decided to tackle economics instead of world politics”. It’s a lot of talking, a lot of smart people arguing, and way more interesting that you’d expect. Lionel Shriver (who is apparently a woman?) also wrote We Need to Talk About Kevin, which is next on my TBR. “Of course for professional traders on the stock exchange, money had always been imaginary – just as notional, just as easy come and […]