Have you seen Cake Wrecks? If you haven’t — click on the link post haste. Take a break from my blog and hang out there for a while, and if you’re at work, grab a towel or sweater to muffle your laughter. Then, forward the site to your friends and recommend the same. Cake Wrecks [...]
Entries from November 2009
November 28, 2009
Review – Ice Bound
I do not recall the original timeline of Jerri Nielsen’s South Pole Winter-Over Breast Cancer story, but rather bumped up this book in my queue after hearing of her June 23, 2009 death from an 11-year battle with the disease. Nielsen’s narration on audio is telling, and while she is a fabulous doctor she is [...]
November 27, 2009
Flashback Friday – November 27, 2009
Flashback Friday comes from Julie Buxbaum’s After You, where the main character Ellie remembers events in her life and the books that correspond. For me, it has always been about books. I can tell you what I was reading when the Twin Towers fell (White Teeth), or when Lucy crashed her mother’s Buick and broke her [...]
November 23, 2009
Review – The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane
After a long wait at the library, I so enjoyed The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane. Katherine Howe is nothing if not meticulous and her passion for 17th Century America was evident in Deliverance Dane; it was essentially a love story to history. Howe knows her stuff but isn’t afraid to take a leap into [...]
November 12, 2009
Review – A Girl Named Zippy
Haven Kimmel has the driest and most wonderful sense of humor this side of the Mississippi. Her memoir of growing up in Moreland, Indiana does not have much of a plot and reads a bit like a series of short stories which made it perfect on audio. Kimmel herself narrates and her cadence and tone [...]
November 8, 2009
Memoir Perceptions
I’m kind of a memoir nut. It just sort of happened one day – I woke up to realize how many I’d read in the past few months and it bordered on ridiculous. And even then, I didn’t tone it down. I’ve been thinking a bit about how I characterize them and what makes me [...]
November 7, 2009
Review — Moose: A Memoir of Fat Camp
I picked up Moose because I am fascinated by the idea of fat camp. The food rules, the exercise, the fat hierarchy – it all makes me want to quit my day job and go on an anthropological fieldwork adventure. Moose was entertaining, but was not exactly the foray into another world like I’d hoped [...]
November 6, 2009
Flashback Friday — November 6, 2009
Flashback Friday comes from Julie Buxbaum’s After You, where the main character Ellie remembers events in her life and the books that correspond. For me, it has always been about books. I can tell you what I was reading when the Twin Towers fell (White Teeth), or when Lucy crashed her mother’s Buick and broke her [...]
November 5, 2009
Review — The Opposite of Love
I picked up The Opposite of Love after first reading and enjoying Julie Buxbaum’s sophomore novel After You. I try not to compare novels when I read them but I am in awe of Buxbaum’s ability to write about death and self-doubt while still keeping things relatively light and enjoyable; it’s sort of like the [...]
