Tag: memoir
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Unabrow: Misadventures of a Late Bloomer by Una LaMarche
Una LaMarche is my spirit animal. She has a “Shit List Bingo” card that calls out the “lotto bitch who never calls your numbers,” and “people who misplace apostrophe’s like moron’s.” I love her. No. 3 on my challenge (obviously).
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“Enough with the Harry Potter already!”
Alright, none of you have actually said this to my face intimated this through comments (or lack thereof) and passive aggressive vibes, but I just took a look through my posts since February, and yeah, a lot of them are Harry Potter related. Most, actually. But that’s because I finally discovered the series. I’m 27. It took me…
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A Stolen Life by Jaycee Dugard
Her story is fascinating and horrifying, and her refusal to hate her captors is inspiring. And bat-shit-crazy—I would hate them so hard. No. 26 on my challenge. I wish it wasn’t.
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Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? by Mindy Kaling
“When a beautiful actress is in a movie, executives wrack their brains to find some kind of flaw … She can’t be not perfect looking, because who would want to see that? A not-100-percent-perfect-looking-in-every-way female? You might as well film a dead squid decaying on a beach somewhere for two hours.”
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The Wettest County in the World by Matt Bondurant
This book is so metal. Gritty, violent, and awesome. Totally captivating (except for Anderson. Shut up, Anderson). The movie was just as gritty, violent, and awesome.
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Let’s Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny Lawson (The Bloggess)
I laughed so hard I cried. On nearly every page. And then I told a bunch of people how much I loved it, which lead my friend Rosie to purchase me a Bloggess calendar for my birthday, which. was. awesome.
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I Beat the Odds by Michael Oher
If ever I hire a ghost writer, it will not be Don Yaeger. If ever I hire a woman to play my adoptive mother, it will most definitely be Sandra Bullock (The Blind Side).
Being Tori 