Someone once told me, "Well, I don't think you're going to find anyone who reads as much as you do." From the mouth of someone who continually asks me for book recommendations based solely on their own likes! (Also, there are people clocking 150-200 books a year on Goodreads. My 50-60 books is nothing compared… Continue reading Best Books of 2022
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Best Books of 2021
This list is in no particular order. . . 1. The Master & Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov: This treasured classic opens as if it was the set up for one long joke. "The devil runs into two Russian atheists in the park. . ." This is a novel of contrasting extremes with some absurdity thrown… Continue reading Best Books of 2021
Worst Books of 2021
This list is in no particular order. . . 1. Death to the Bullshit Artists of South Texas by Fernando A. Flores: Such a disappointment! I loved Flores's 2019 novel, Tears of the Trufflepig, and compared to it this book of short stories was terribly esoteric at times. About being punk in many forms, it… Continue reading Worst Books of 2021
Dispatches From a Small Town Girl: A Celebration of Bourdain Day
Updated on 09/21/22 Anthony Bourdain crosses my mind every goddamn day. He's even eternally flipping me off on my phone's home screen as a constant reminder for me to be actively growing, and morphing into a better person as much as I can with what I have. The Food Network and Travel Channel were staples… Continue reading Dispatches From a Small Town Girl: A Celebration of Bourdain Day
Bastard Children of the South
I was watching an interview with Michael Shannon recently where he said he enjoys acting, because it gives him a chance to behave in certain ways he'd be reprimanded for in real life. Which makes me wonder. . . do playwrights/writers create over the top, idiosyncratic characters because they also understand that socially they can't act… Continue reading Bastard Children of the South
2017 Reading Challenge: The Best of the 60
Just Kids by Patti Smith: I wasn't really familiar with Patti Smith's work before reading this. To be honest, I wasn't even familiar with Mapplethorpe either. In the end it didn't matter, because Smith paints such a vivid portrait of a New York City long past, a prominent artist long dead, and an era long… Continue reading 2017 Reading Challenge: The Best of the 60
Beloved Children’s Author, Shel Silverstein, Took Some Terrifying Photos
Some of them are a bit Hitchcockian, other's are just down right weird, but I'll let the pictures speak for themselves. . . I found some of these photos embedded in an article titled "The Surprisingly Sex-Filled Life of Shel Silverstein". Click here to read it. I don't know why anyone would ever want to… Continue reading Beloved Children’s Author, Shel Silverstein, Took Some Terrifying Photos
Books to Read if You Live in the South
What is Southern Gothic literature, and why do we need it? The Southern Gothic genre is grotesque. It takes negative characteristics from "The South" and magnifies them so that we're forced to acknowledge them. Everything from rape/incest, child molestation, mental disabilities, racism, corrupt "Men of God", violence/murder, social issues, decay, religion, class, and repressed homosexuality.… Continue reading Books to Read if You Live in the South
I’m Thankful 2016 Didn’t Take Bill Murray from Us.
Last year I read The Tao of Bill Murray by Gavin Edwards. It's a compilation of newsworthy antics from who else but The Murricane himself! Edwards begins the book by giving the reader a brief, but concise biography of Murray, which is all you really need, because I think most of us want Bill to… Continue reading I’m Thankful 2016 Didn’t Take Bill Murray from Us.
10 Books That Have Influenced Me as a Female
Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen (I never thought I would relate to a memoir written in the early 90s about a girl in a psychiatric hospital in the 60s, but here we are. Kaysen raises some interesting questions about the sexism of the diagnosis of borderline personality disorder (which is what she suffers from) and… Continue reading 10 Books That Have Influenced Me as a Female
Like Wild Onions 