Life Under A Rock

No, but I’ve drugged myself.  Does that get me on the self-righteous shit list?

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So, so, SO very shirty…
Lucinda Franks, My Father’s Secret War
Lucinda Franks grew up in one of those hellish, emotionally stunted postwar families that baby boomers are always writing about.  Mommy and daddy didn’t love each other anymore but stuck together “for the kids”; daddy was a functioning alcoholic and mommy was extremely obese, which [...]

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I AM SO PSYCHED, Y’ALL!
EVEN THOUGH I HAVEN’T READ A BOOK IN LIKE, A WEEK, LET’S PRETEND LIKE I’M STILL LITERATE!
Karen Abbott, Sin in the Second City: Madams, Ministers, Playboys, and the Battle for America’s Soul
A story about the vice district in Chicago at the turn of the twentieth century, Sin in the Second City [...]

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January 25, 2010

In addition to being about various horrible and incurable diseases, this book contains lots of race-, gender-, and pedo-FAIL.  You have been warned.
D.T. Max, The Family that Couldn’t Sleep
Max’s “hook” is the family history of an Italian clan that suffers from a rare prion disease called fatal familial insomnia:  basically, [...]

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Taken from the car as we were zipping through traffic, which explains the unusually high levels of SUCK:

Every time I think about how humiliating it will be to have THAT MAN be my senator, I’ll just have to remind myself that I grew up in a state that routinely sent Jesse Helms to Washington.  And [...]

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The other day, Jessy sent me an email that kind of blew my mind hole, because I had just been working on a draft ABOUT THIS VERY TOPIC:
Post idea: Because I’m nosy as hell and am curious: marriage & name change. Yours. Thoughts for, and against. I’ve been curious since you said you [...]

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Not because they have much to do with each other, but because I am so, so, SO lazy.
Heidi W. Durrow, The Girl Who Fell from the Sky
Rachel goes to live with her grandmother after being the sole survivor of a murder-suicide attempt by her mother; her mom, little brother, and baby sister all died.  Understandably, [...]

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I’ve been reading a lot about serial killers lately, because that is just how I roll.  Actually, it’s related to this, but also?  I just find them fascinating.  Anyway, I’ve been reading a lot about people who enjoy killing other people, and I’ve found something truly fascinating:  although virtually every author I’ve run across cites [...]

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Recently, a friend of mine got an email from an old boyfriend—a guy who degraded her, alienated her from her friends and family, made her cry on a regular basis, and made her afraid for her physical safety.  A guy who was such a shit to everyone in her life that when she ended it [...]

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This is what usually happens when I get a bee in my bonnet and transcribe the feelings of said bee:  I say a lot of stuff that is really open to misinterpretation and misunderstanding because, you know, IT WAS WRITTEN BY A BEE.
Or if you want to be more accurate, it was written by a [...]

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