My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One Night Stands is my AlabamaPink cbr10bingo book. I figured it would be the most fun after reading the other titles descriptions. I also would never pick this book up on my own as I am not a fan of Ms. Handler. Chelsea Handler focuses on a few of her favorite, or at least interesting (to her), sexual encounters. If you are looking for porn, thankfully, this is not it. Considering her reputation, this is tame. Sure, she swears and talks […]
Biography/Memoir
Well it felt like a chore
This is for my backlog CBR square because I bought it at the same time as my white whale about three years ago, and despite being a tenth of the size it took me about as long to finish. This was such a letdown; this book was booooooring. I really wanted a fun book with an “Ask a Manager” vibe, as I enjoy true life tales of mundane absurdity from the hoi polloi. A few contributors have since gone on to bigger things, there are […]
Families Are Complicated
CBR 10 BINGO Square: Listicles: So many, but I’ll go with the Seattle Times Fall Reading List 2018 (the author was born there, I lived there for 10 of the last 20 years). Best for: Anyone interested in a beautifully written memoir that explores adoption, transracial adoption, race, and family. In a nutshell: Author Nicole Chung was born to Korean parents in the US and adopted by a white couple. In this book, she explores what it meant to be one of the only Asian […]
“You’ve got to learn to like yourself a little more”
Bingo Square: AlabamaPink In a fairly by-the-numbers biography, Donald Spoto follows Audrey from her childhood in Nazi-occupied Holland, to her years studying dance, her sudden rise to stardom after Gigi and Roman Holiday, her marriages and romantic life, motherhood, and her later work for UNICEF. I can’t say if this is a good biography of Hepburn or not – in terms of what it covers about her life. I am only vaguely familiar with her personal life after watching a Jennifer Love Hewitt film and […]