I just finished reading Quiverfull: Inside the Christian Patriarchy Movement by Kathryn Joyce and I can’t stop thinking about it. The whole book was fascinating and hard to put down even though Joyce has one of the same writing flaws I have: long, complicated sentences. I have GOT to work on that because in reading [...]

I’ve gone on a weird Sarah Palin research bender the past couple of weeks. I’m not sure what sent me on this knowledge quest: maybe the bus tour, maybe the bells she rang to alert the British that Americans like guns, maybe the feature length film about herself that she didn’t really commission because when [...]

Kardashian Konfidential is not the stupidest book I’ve ever read. It’s not the smartest book, either, not by a long shot but it wasn’t the stupidest either. Parts of it were pretty stupid. Parts of it I couldn’t even keep reading because hello? They suggest dress shorts as a fashion must-have and no. Just no. [...]

Apparently, the answer to that question is “Levi Johnston”. OK, I know I’m not supposed to lob ad hominem attacks at public figures and I know I’m supposed to ignore the P@lins in the hope that they’ll go away but DUDE. BRISTOL P@LIN IS “WRITING” A BOOK! (Maybe. It’s unconfirmed. But I’m going to pretend [...]

A few months ago I read “Getting Pretty Back” by Molly Ringwald. Yes, that Molly Ringwald. The one who is pretty in pink. I thought initially that this book was going to be another celebrity memoir that I could lampoon here on the ol’ blog. It was actually more of a self-help book about how [...]

If you happen to be perusing the shelves of many fine bookstores this week, you may find yourself confronted with a cover featuring an eerily familiar pair of eyes gazing at you underneath an 8 inch tall pouf of hair. Yes. The Snooki book is out. Or maybe the Snooki “book”. Or perhaps, the “Snooki” [...]

I really, really like comedy. I think the ability to be consistently funny is amazing and I wish I thought I could get laughs daily just from using my words. I especially like female comics like Margaret Cho and Wanda Sykes and Janeane Garafolo. Seriously, if you’ve never seen Wanda Sykes bit about making a [...]

As many of you know, Kardashian Konfidential comes out next week and the Pulitzer Committee is probably sharpening its pencils to cast ballots for it as the greatest work of literature of 2010. Or perhaps they just want to correct the spelling of “konfidential”. Hard to say. Whatever the case, I am sending one last [...]

I have immersed myself in the prairie and what an experience it’s been. First I read Confessions of a Prairie Bitch by Alison “Nellie Oleson”Arngrim, which I LOVED and reviewed here last week. It was the perfect memoir of Little House on the Prairie and Arngrim did me the favor of writing about the things [...]

I went through a phase when I was a kid where I was obsessed with Little House on the Prairie. I read all the books multiple times and watched the show daily. It was in syndication by that point and my sister and I used to really like watching it after school. We also liked [...]