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Aug. 24th, 2024 06:06 am1. My Aunt Gail died yesterday.
( cancer talk )
2.
Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
Look, I get it. Once upon a time, the idea of going into a bookstore and picking up a volume off the shelf and encountering deliberately, egregiously gross descriptions of sex and women's bodies and the writer's own body and bodily functions in general must have seemed truly revolutionary and novel. Now the sort of writing in Miller's magnus opus just seems utterly juvenile, like a teenage boy trying out all the pee pee and poo poo words he's amassed over the course of his adolescence. I'm not shocked, Henry Miller, nor do I think you are, as Ken Shapiro states in the intro to this volume, the GOAT. I think you are funny at times and crass at all times and boring a lot of the time.
Also bonus racism I'd forgotten about from my first read 20+ years ago.
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3.
How to Keep House While Drowning by K.C. Davis
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
This is a book about self-care and letting go of shame around cleaning and other tasks. It contains a lot of hacks for people who struggle with housework, meal planning, and hygiene tasks because of depression or executive function issues.
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( cancer talk )
2.
Tropic of Cancer by Henry MillerMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
Look, I get it. Once upon a time, the idea of going into a bookstore and picking up a volume off the shelf and encountering deliberately, egregiously gross descriptions of sex and women's bodies and the writer's own body and bodily functions in general must have seemed truly revolutionary and novel. Now the sort of writing in Miller's magnus opus just seems utterly juvenile, like a teenage boy trying out all the pee pee and poo poo words he's amassed over the course of his adolescence. I'm not shocked, Henry Miller, nor do I think you are, as Ken Shapiro states in the intro to this volume, the GOAT. I think you are funny at times and crass at all times and boring a lot of the time.
Also bonus racism I'd forgotten about from my first read 20+ years ago.
View all my reviews
3.
How to Keep House While Drowning by K.C. DavisMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
This is a book about self-care and letting go of shame around cleaning and other tasks. It contains a lot of hacks for people who struggle with housework, meal planning, and hygiene tasks because of depression or executive function issues.
View all my reviews
