I have read so many Sophie Hannah books, and outside the Spilling CID novels (which tend to be pretty good), not one of her one-off novels has been great. But — they don’t quite suck either. And they’re usually an easy, one evening read. Cara Burrows has “fled” her perfectly nice husband and their two children in England to spend two weeks at a resort in Arizona. She has her reasons, but really, they’re pretty shitty. While at the resort, she wanders into the wrong […]
More angry women — I love it!
“This one-two punch—flat incomes and rising expenses—has hit the middle class squarely in the gut.” First of all, Elizabeth Warren is just fucking cool, okay? She’s smart and tough and takes no shit and I want to be her friend. This Fight Is Our Fight explains in horrifying, vivid detail the damage that has been done (and continues to be done) to the United States economy since roughly the Reagan years. She takes specific cases and expands upon them with research and examples and all sorts of […]
Everything in Australia wants to kill me, but I’m dying to visit anyway
This was a fun read. Bill Bryson is always fun, and this was one of the best memoirs I’ve read by him yet. Basically, it’s just Bryson in Australia in 2001. He does a lot of drinking, a lot of exploring, and a lot of trying not to get killed by the locals (animals, people, plants, whatever). It’s witty and silly and his traveling companion for the last few weeks cracked me up. Bryson has a Dave Barry-like way of describing things (or maybe Dave […]
YASSSS QUEEN
Between Katy Tur’s Trump book, this fantastic collection of biographies, and Elizabeth Warren’s This Fight Is Our Fight (review forthcoming), I have read some excellent works by some pissed off women lately. And I’m loving it. “She should be assertive but not bossy, feminine but not prissy, experienced but not condescending, fashionable but not superficial, forceful but not shrill. Put simply: she should be masculine, but not too masculine; feminine, but not too feminine. She should be everything, which means she should be nothing.” Petersen uses this […]