Just hopping on the bandwagon like everyone else! And after Redeployment I needed something a little silly to cleanse the palate. Enter my library getting this in for me at just the perfect time! As a lover of many pieces of classic literature, especially Jane Eyre (but not in the romantic way, because ew), parts of this were completely right up my alley. I was sending pictures of the book for my sister and I to cackle about like we were crazy witches (which we […]
‘Not All Miserable Unfulfilled Losers’
**Apparently this isn’t released until Tuesday, but my local Barnes and Noble had it out yesterday, so I guess I’m reviewing this from the future? Awesome!** You might be familiar with Ms. Gibbons. She’s the woman who went on TV in her bathing suit (in Times Square, no less), wearing a size 18ish. She had sex with her husband every night of the year in hopes of improving her own body confidence. She runs the website ‘Brittany, Herself’ and is the leader of the ‘curvy […]
If his middle name is Luck, his first name must be Bad.
One of the worst curses you can fling at a Discworld character is “May you live in interesting times,” hence the title of the book. But aside from it’s promising title, the 17th Discworld book was a bit of a letdown after the fitting soulful musings of Soul Music, but it almost made up for it in sheer volume of jokes and witticisms alone. I wanted to quote something practically every other page. The perfect Discworld book is funny, biting, and deep-hitting. This one was […]
Sex, Drugs and Music With Rocks In.
“He had the feeling, once again, that he’d missed out on something somewhere. He’d never really realized it until the last couple of days. He didn’t know what it was. He just wanted to do things. He didn’t know what they were. But he wanted to do them soon.” “There are millions of chords. There are millions of numbers. And everyone forgets the one that is a zero. But without the zero, numbers are just arithmetic. Without the empty chord, music is just noise.” It […]