These are the avid ramblings of an obsessive reader, ambitious writer, and musical stalker.
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The Beauty Myth by Naomi Wolf
You want to know the scariest thing about this book? It was written nearly thirty years ago. It reads like its discussing the current obsessions, the modern compulsion, the contemporary disillusion that we as we are—women, men, people of any label or identity—are not enough. At least not yet. But if you’re sweating pounds at […]
MoreHow To Be A Woman by Caitlin Moran
Before talking more about this book, I need to confess something. It’s been a few months since I read it, August to be exact. I’ve just kinda let the story meld around in my brain through the fall, it’s a complex question to say the least. How to be a woman is the question of […]
MoreSex Object: A Memoir by Jessica Valenti
If there was one book I could have the entire male population read, it would be Sex Object: A Memoir by Jessica Valenti. It is honest, undramatic, unromantic, and blameless about the objectification of females. As much as we want to bring our heads below our faces, cover the catcalling with our headphones, and clutch […]
MoreThe Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo by Amy Schumer
I need to be completely and totally honest with you all about this memoir. I have read many memoirs, from celebrities about political figures, even the complex relationships and events surrounding the presidential election in the 1800s. This memoir here, however, is one of the most artful compositions I have read. I know a lot […]
MoreCitizen An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine
My running method for describing this book is the pre-planet phase. The swirling clusters of a galaxy before the hands of fate ball the pastel dust into a planet, nature’s natural form of compression. Pink photo particles swirl into the bright red ambers of poetry and blue bubbles of prose, hunting each other until they […]
MoreA Memoir According to Kathy Griffin
What can I say about Kathy Griffin that has not already been said, mostly by herself? She has created a career out of self-humiliation, and amen to that, must be difficult to be the butt of your own jokes and the foundation for your career. I’m pretty sure I could never do that, it’s take […]
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