As hilarious as it tragic, I Am Not Myself These Days is not a read for everyone, but damn, did I love it. This is the story of a "drunk drag queen and a crackhead hooker in love". It's a memoir about misfits, about broken people, about connection, about identity, about hope, and yes, the glittering...
I received a copy of this book from NetGalley in exchange for an unbiased review. No other consideration was offered, expected or received. If you ask me what I want to eat, more often than not I will tell you some sort of vegetables. Even when I was young, I would eat the things that most kids di...
An appalling and mesmerising train wreck and beautifully tragic. I Am Not Myself These Days is a raw and powerful glimpse into Josh Kilmer-Purcell's life, rich with humour, vodka and glittered drag queens. Through the eyes of Josh and his drag queen counterpart, Aqua, a story of horrific, cringe-w...
Review first appeared on fefferbooks.com.I have to admit to being duped, a little, by The Beekman 1802 Heirloom Dessert Cookbook. Some of you may have seen my Facebook post, excitedly exclaiming about getting to review a cookbook full of recipes from the early 19th century. Um…whoops? All I can say...
Styled like the older cookbooks I used to flip through as a child while my grandmother flittered around the kitchen, this cookbook brings those cherished recipes to our homes with easy to follow steps. Sure to please and bring tasty results, or even strike up conversation from the coffee-table. Abou...
A fun, highly readable memoir of drag queen days and one particular doomed love affair. I would have liked to see more about Josh's life at the end- the transition from where the book actually ends to where he is now. I found the ending abrupt but overall enjoyed Kilmer-Purcell's colorful anecdotes ...
I came to Josh Kilmer-Purcell's memoir I Am Not Myself These Days backwards, first reading his later memoir The Bucolic Plague : How Two Manhattanites Became Gentleman Farmers: An Unconventional Memoir, then seeing him and his partner on the reality show The Amazing Race and finally reading his firs...
"I don't care what Butterball.com says, the hardest part about cooking the perfect Thanksgiving dinner is avoiding the splinters of broken crack pipes that collect in the crevices of the kitchen floor. ... In our newfound resolve to be a normal couple, Jack and I had invited twenty-nine assorted hoo...
Light in tone, though in content more despairing and absurd. It's essentially the memoir of a peculiar and failed relationship. While it was amusing in a sad way, compare to Burroughs's Dry for a different way of telling a tale of the city, relationships, gay culture, and substance abuse. While Kilm...
Rating: 2* of fiveThe Book Report: The author himself describes this as his childhood and coming-of-age as he'd've liked them to be. I can see no point in adding to that description.My Review: Oh dear.
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