This week, we return to the Scholastic Bookfair to check out the classic Bunnicula, the story of a loyal family dog Harold who suspects the new family pet rabbit has a sinister secret... A nostalgic dive into the story behind the story and an exploration of the plot of this children's classic. Contains spoilers. This …
Continue reading Return To The Bookfair – Bunnicula by Deborah and James Howe (1979)
Cosmo Topper is a mild mannered and respectable bank manager whose whole life has been ordered down to the last detail, until one day he feels drawn by a strange impulse, to break free and buy a sportscar that was owned by a local couple. The only problem is that the previous owners of the …
RuPaul's Drag Race started out as a small reality TV show, and wound up reaching many, inspiring people, making them laugh and bringing them drama, creativity and drag right into their homes and hearts. In this book, we are given a bit of history of RuPaul and the show, with loads of interviews and quotes, …
Continue reading Don’t F&%k It Up! An Oral History Of RuPaul’s Drag Race by Maria Elena Fernandez
Have you ever wondered how Tracy Flick turned out? In this sequel to Election (and the book that was based on it starring Reese Witherspoon), Perrotta returns to his iconic character 25 years later. Rather than taking on the world and becoming the first female president of the US, Flick has become an assistant principal …
"Uncommon Advice from History's Least Likely Self-Help Guru." I was in my early teens when I first read Poe, which seems to be about the average time to start reading him. My copy of his stories had beautiful illustrations by Arthur Rackham, if I remember correctly, and I loved his dark stories of madness, horror …
Continue reading Poe For Your Problems by Catherine Baab-Muguira
John Paul Brammer is an LGBTQ writer and artist whose advice column, Hola Papi, was originally on a Grindr affiliated site. This book is his memoir, written in the form of advice letters or essays, and talks about the life and relationship lessons that he's learned. I loved this book so much. The authors voice …
Curl up with a good book and some homemade pumpkin bread. Rachel Bloom is the creator of the TV show Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, and this book is a collection of writings on what normal is. Or rather, the fact that everyone thinks that they or their life is weird, and that out there somewhere is Normal. …
Continue reading I Want To Be Where The Normal People Are by Rachel Bloom
Set over the course of a year, this book looks at an ensemble of different families in the neighborhood of Cobble Hill in New York, where everyone thinks they know everyone's business. There's the bestselling author with writers block, whose wife insisted they move to NY from the UK. There's the school nurse whose son …
As some of you know, I also have a movie blog, and I recently finished a month of watching Dolly Parton movies. This kind of came about after having a really rough time in my personal life over Christmas. I felt like I wanted to watch things that were a little more uplifting and fun, …
Continue reading What I Learned From Watching Dolly Parton Movies All Month.
Sometimes books of short tales are hard to share with people. Some people don't like the format, and feel like they can be too literary or like a long joke, having to have a kind of punch line. It's the same kind of thinking that keeps people away from short film as a format too. …
Continue reading Live Show, Drink Included: Collected Stories by Vicky Grut
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