The more I read (and watch movies and TV), the more I value encountering something unlike anything else I ever have before. Black Wave, by Michelle Tea, immersed me in a world new to me in several ways. Though there are occasionally individual queer characters in the books I read, I haven't read m...
The cover of this book tricked me. The beginning of the story tricked me. I marveled at this as I read drinking in the new language and character and then it all went to hell. I leave the one star rating because I remember throwing the book when I finished. The ending was so wretched and felt like s...
It wasn't a book I expected to like much, but I thought I'd give it a try. The first chapter surprised me, it was grittier than I expected. The book as a whole still isn't any dark, macabre fantasy, but it's more mature than it seems. The writing is nice, sometimes quite great, and the characters an...
There is a fine line behind crazy and inspired. There is also a fine line between crazy and genius but Valerie Solanas was no genius. For that matter, she probably wasn't crazy. At least, not at first. She was a very troubled woman damaged by child molestation and abuse. She appeared to have had vol...
It's a typical girl finds out how special she is story, but stranger and darker and with more f-bombs than usual. Sophie lives in Chelsea and likes to play the pass-out game with her friend Ella who is diving into adolescence while Sophie is diving into the putrid creek to meet a mermaid who has ne...
Beth Ditto has been an inspiration to me for the better part of a decade. As a teenager I loved her band The Gossip, her positive body image, and her "fuck you if you don't like it" attitude. I never really knew much about her personal life and history, though, so I was super excited when I heard sh...
Initial reaction: If there's something I already knew about Beth Ditto that was confirmed in this book, she's made of awesome. I appreciated reading and learning more about her. I have listened to Ditto's work (both with Gossip as well as her solo EP), but I'll admit I didn't know much about her ...
The tone in the first couple chapters came off a little commercial, but then I went to Michelle Tea's reading where she discussed that this was a book she owed her agent/publisher, so I understood more from that context. Still, there is a lot to appreciate in this memoir/adulthood-how-to-manual. The...
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