This book starts out so well — Busy has put up with a lot of shit during her years in Hollywood (I mean…James Franco alone…) and she pulls no punches calling out the hypocrisy and misogyny she has seen and fought. “Men love a woman who laughs at the joke, especially if the joke is at her expense. “She’s so cool. She just gets it.” Her happier stories are great reads, too — her triumphs and behind the scenes joys. But something starts to sort […]
Biography/Memoir
A Horrifying Look at Apartheid from the Inside
I’ve had this book sitting on my Kindle for a while now but finally got around to reading it. Trevor Noah is a great storyteller and the book is organised into chapters around events that have the same theme or are just based on a specific event. Each chapter/vignette is prefaced by a factual couple of pages explaining the context for what is about to follow. For example there is a long story occurring when Trevor is in his late teens that is centered around […]
A Road Trip with a Dog
I read this due to my Steinbeck kick. I was a little worried about reading it immediately after The Grapes of Wrath but it was the perfect antidote to my melancholy mood. This is a travel journey by one of America’s preeminent authors who decided that that he no longer felt in touch with America and her people and wanted to find her again. Discontented seems to best describe the way he felt with his life when he set off on his journey in 1960 […]
So Many Footnotes
I have watched some of his stand-up specials and I did find them hilarious but never would have sought out a memoir of his life but this book was recommended to me and I am glad I read it. I listened to the audio book instead of the written book and I highly recommend that format. His narration is very genuine, charismatic and engaging. I don’t think I would have enjoyed this this book if I read the words on a page. Although there are very […]