I think most of us know Retta from Parks and Rec, where she played Donna Meagle and was part of the TREAT YO SELF phenomenon of 2011. I also knew she loved the LA Kings and Hamilton, but really didn’t know much else about her before listening to her audiobook. Now I know a lot about her…but I still don’t really feel like I know her. RETTA, WHO ARE YOU? You love handbags. You love your hardworking, immigrant parents. You love Duke University. You are […]
When I was a baby I urinated into my own mouth
I first witnessed the glory that is James Acaster on an episode of Would I Lie to You where he recounted the, now infamous, cabbage tale. I watched that episode twice. Then I googled the man and watched pretty much everything on YouTube, including obscure clips from before anyone knew who he was. What I’m trying to say is that I was very much the target audience for this book and my review is in no way objective, but based purely on the fact that […]
When I was a child, I first noticed that neither history as I was taught it nor the stories I was told seemed to lead to me. I began to fix them.
CBR10Bingo – Brain Candy If you’ve read this book, you’re already horrified by my calling it Brain Candy. But I am taking that literally and applying it directly to the book. This book involves a horribly oppressed and traumatized and abused woman, Connie, who begins the book off being forced into a mental health facility against her will through the betrayal of her niece and the violence of her niece’s pimp/fiance. Brain Candy! So what happens next is that Connie is latched onto from the […]