I’m behind the trend in reading Fifty Shades of Grey but I’ve been reading other stuff (see the “Books I love” box to the right) and doing other things (like raising a pair of wild 16-month-old twins). But there was some chat about Fifty Shades among my Facebook friends recently, which prompted me to write [...]
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50 shades of meh
Posted in Mostly about (pop) culture, Mostly about reading, tagged Fifty Shades of Grey, micro book review, mommy porn, Roxane Gay, The Rumpus, Twilight, Which Books Should You Read This Summer on 28 June 2012 | 1 Comment »
Still thinking about Girls
Posted in Mostly about (pop) culture, tagged Girls, Goodbye to All That, HBO, Joan Didion, Roxane Gay on 8 May 2012 | 6 Comments »
And by “Girls” I mean the HBO series written and directed by Lena Dunham. I don’t get HBO — I don’t get cable at all — so I’ve only seen on episode, by chance, in a hotel room. My reaction was mixed. It was funny and painful and truthful and sad and ridiculous and unrealistic [...]