As you may have noticed I rarely read books by men. It is books like How to Survive Everything by Ewan Morrison that remind me why. Continue reading
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Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing by Matthew Perry
I will say up front I never really watched Friends, have no real interest in Friends, and even when it was first airing I felt it was an oddly retrograde throwback show to an imaginary all-white NYC where no one really had to work to live. That said, it was impossible to avoid reading about … Continue reading
The Bright Lands by John Fram
What a waste of a good idea! The writing of The Bright Lands was so poor. Certain phrases were used over and over again the most glaring was “ridged stomach” and twice on one page the phrase “Joel wondered what the odds were that…” appeared. The word spry was also misused in the description of … Continue reading
memoir / nonfiction / review
We Came, We Saw, We Left: A Family Gap Year by Charles Wheelan
I loved the idea of We Came, We Saw, We Left: A Family Gap Year by Charles Wheelan but I came out of it thinking this man must be incredibly exhausting and dare I say boring to be around. I’ve read a lot of travel and family memoirs and this was an odd one. There … Continue reading
biography / food / food writing / history
The Man Who Ate Too Much: The Life of James Beard by John Birdsall
I started The Man Who Ate Too Much: The Life of James Beard by John Birdsall as an ARC and couldn’t get through it then tried again when it was published. This time I was able to put my finger on what bothered me. I understand the impulse to make the subject of a biography … Continue reading
If You Lived Here You’d Be Home By Now: Why We Traded the Commuting Life for a Little House on the Prairie by Christopher Ingraham
I was hoping this would be a fun book to read during day 18 of quarantine but what a disappointment. Being from the area where he moved from gave me some insight other readers might not have. I don’t buy any of the reasons why he felt like he had to move. It was a … Continue reading
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