Hi, I’m badkittyuno, and I’ve totally failed my New Year’s resolution to remain current on my reviews by somehow falling 15 reviews behind. In my defense, my life has completely fallen apart since mid-March — but also I’m lazy and would much rather read than review. Caitlin_D suggested lumping reviews of similar books together in an effort to get myself back on track, and my baby sister is very wise, so… Here we go! It’s Memoir Time. Grace Notes: My Recollections by Katey 4 Stars I […]
More Than Just Peggy Bundy
Katey Sagal, best known as Peg Bundy & Gemma Morrow, has had a long and varied career over the last 30 years. Grace Notes chronicles Sagal’s life from birth to the present in poetic vignettes and honest essays. Katey had a pretty loosely raised childhood, her mother was often sick and her father, a TV director, was hard to bond with until Katey was in her early twenties. Her teenage years and twenties were plagued with drug & alcohol addictions and both her parents died young. She also had thyroid […]
The Crow Flies Straight
In the introduction to Sons of Anarchy: The Official Collector’s Edition, creator and show runner Kurt Sutter jokes that the book was originally over 6,000 pages and what is left is everything that cleared Fox censors. I’m not sure if there is any truth to that but while the book is pretty comprehensive it’s not the end-all-be-all inclusive book about the critically acclaimed television series that I had hoped it would be. It’s good, but there is a lot of missing pieces that if included […]