I liked this book a lot. Piper is totally aware of her privilege though out her telling of this story and it was refreshing to hear her talk about the other prisoners like people and draw parallels to other things. My one issue have is that I wanted more. The book only details Piper's time in the p...
It's hard for me to dislike a book that says George Bush is one of the worst presidents ever, David Brooks is easy to mock for his faux intellectualism, Bill O'Reilly is a boor and contributes negatively to thought in the USA, and other such items I whole heartily agree with, but the book is an anac...
Mediocre? Duh, winning!DNF @ 33% and here's why:A novel should be about a) ordinary people in extraordinary situations, or b) extraordinary people in ordinary situations. Sometimes we get extraordinary/extraordinary and it's awesome. Sometimes we get ordinary/ordinary and we're bored.These people ar...
4.5“The Days were a clan that mighta lived longBut Ben Day’s head got screwed on wrongThat boy craved dark Satan’s powerSo he killed his family in one nasty hourLittle Michelle he strangled in the nightThen chopped up Debby: a bloody sightMother Patty he saved for lastBlew off her head with a shotgu...
Just in time for IWSG post week and for the holidays, The Insecure Writer’s Support Group Guide to Publishing and Beyond is now available for downloading! It's free, so don't be shy about grabbing a copy for yourself and any other writers (or would-be writers) in your circle of friends.The Insecure ...
I absolutely loved this book. It's not fast paced or filled with excitement but it's filled with characters who felt real - so very real - and we were allowed into their heads during some pretty hard times. I didn't think I'd like this book nearly as much as I did but it really moved me. I'm sad to ...
I absolutely loved this book. It's not fast paced or filled with excitement but it's filled with characters who felt real - so very real - and we were allowed into their heads during some pretty hard times. I didn't think I'd like this book nearly as much as I did but it really moved me. I'm sad to ...
Orange Is the New Black is a fairly typical memoir, in that one’s enjoyment of the story hinges on whether one likes the author/narrator. Piper’s race and social status means that she had a far different prison experience than someone of a different race and socioeconomic class. That she recognizes ...
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