A few years ago I raved about Jenny Lawson’s humorous memoir debut Let’s Pretend This Never Happened, a book about Lawson’s eccentric upbringing in rural Texas and how she became the Bloggess we know her as today. Lawson’s dark and quirky sense of humor and laugh out loud stories resonated with readers and her book […]
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Audiobook Review: Why Not Me? by Mindy Kaling
Mindy Kaling is back with another new humorous memoir, Why Not Me? Since her 2011 book, Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns), came out before the launch of The Mindy Project, this book covers her life as a tv star and showrunner. Mindy also shares her thoughts on beauty, love, sex scenes, body […]
Read More »Audiobook Review: You’re Never Weird on the Internet (Almost) by Felicia Day
For a Comic-Con nerd such as myself I know surprisingly little about the “Queen of the Geeks” Internet personality Felicia Day. I’ve seen Day on Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog and on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, but I’ve never seen an episode of her web series The Guild (or Supernatural for that matter — I’ve lost […]
Read More »Audiobook Review: The Real Doctor Will See You Shortly
In The Real Doctor Will See You Shortly, Dr. Matt McCarthy recounts his first year as an intern at Columbia University Medical Center. Is his first-year practicing medicine similar to that of the doctor’s we see in TV dramas? Yes and no, but for the most part these real-life interns are too busy for on-call […]
Read More »Audiobook Review: Girl in a Band by Kim Gordon
The band Sonic Youth formed in 1981 in New York, and they first got my attention with their 1988 breakthrough album Daydream Nation. Two of the founding members of Sonic Youth, Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon, were a couple and were married for 27 years. Fans were shocked when the indie rock Super Couple announced […]
Read More »Audiobook Review: Silver Screen Fiend by Patton Oswalt
In Silver Screen Fiend, actor/comedian Patton Oswalt talks about his addiction: film. In the 90s Oswalt was trying to get his standup career off the ground, and meanwhile spending every spare moment at the movies. LA’s New Beverly Cinema became his own film school of sorts and he’d check off the movies he saw in […]
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