Suck it, Wonder Woman!: The Misadventures of a Hollywood Geek is actress/tv hostess Olivia Munn’s first book (with Mac Montandon). In it she takes us through various stories she’s lived through along with some asides like a chapter that consists of photos of her dressed as “Important Women”.
Worst Laid Plans: When Bad Sex Happens To Good People is a compilation of short essays from a wide variety of actors and comedians, and just some regular people about some hilariously bad sexual experiences. It’s based on a show at the Upright Citizens Brigade started by Alexandra Lydon and Laura Kindred.
Tell All is the latest novel by author Chuck Palahniuk, the mastermind behind such books as Fight Club and Choke among many more. Tell All is a sort of twisted satiric take on old Hollywood and the kind of gossipy books written about it. It’s written in the first person with Hazie Coogan, the woman who has no title (she often tells us what she is not) but pretty much runs the life of fading starlet Katherine Kenton. She’s telling us the story in a unique manner, almost as if pitching us a script complete with shots.
Dead in the Family is the 10th installment in the Sookie Stackhouse/Southern Vampire series from Charlaine Harris. This is the same series which the show True Blood
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Anyway like the other books, you should have some knowledge of the rest of the series since this builds on the others. Harris does do a decent job of including details of things that happened in the past but it helps to have that knowledge going in. There’s also a whole lot of different plot lines going on. Overall I wasn’t impressed with this particular book. It felt short and there really wasn’t any mystery and everything was too neatly wrapped up at the end. There were no surprises or anything really interesting. But if you’re a fan of the series you’ll probably still wanna check it out.
Or get the audiobook at Audible
The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee is comedian Sarah Silverman’s first book. It’s an autobiography about her life to this point and touches on a number of interesting topics.
If you’re already a Sarah Silverman fan chances are you already have this. If not go and buy it now
The book talks about everything from her early life, her family, how she got into comedy, her days of being a NYC standup to her season on Saturday Night Live, and finally her current stint on The Sarah Silverman Program (including a lot of stuff for fans of that show, like a whole chapter just about the writers room and the odd process of making the show). It’s really a great read and manages to surround even the darkest parts with a lot of humor. Silverman’s overall intelligence and love of her craft are both on display throughout. She breaks down the difference between what she does and what racism would be and how she often is horrified by people who laugh at the wrong part of the joke.
One chapter is dedicated to an incident where she used the word “chink” on Conan O’ Brian and how one Chinese-American watchdog group started a big fuss over it, but how the joke wasn’t about being racist, but was trying to point out how there are people who are really casually racist and obtuse. She follows this by two other controversies she got into by making jokes at MTV award shows about Paris Hilton and Britney Spears respectively and how those jokes actually were wrong and mean spirited and how she did not intend for them to be like that and explains the circumstances behind them.
She also points out various philosophies on life like her mantra of “Make It A Treat”.
Really overall this book is pretty great and you should check it out.
The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet’s Nest (original Swedish title is Luftslottet som sprängdes or The Air Castle That Blew Up) is the third, and final, book in the Millennium Trilogy by the late Steig Larsson
The Boy Who Couldn’t Sleep and Never Had To is the debut novel of comedian DC Pierson of the group Derrick Comedy. It’s a very interesting book. First the title really grabs you but then it sort of becomes confusing for a while. The plot is about teenage Darren who is a talented artist but pretty much a loner, with a dad who’s not around much and a psychopath of an older brother. That is until one day he befriends Eric, an odd kid who he’s warned to stay away from by a girl at school. The two become best friends and together start work on a massive comic/movie/multimedia project that will change sci-fi forever called Timeblaze. Finally Eric reveals that he has never slept in his life and he can’t no matter how hard he tries. He has a real superpower so to speak. This leads them into a unique adventure right out of the movies and comics they’ve been obsessed with.
The Girl Who Played With Fire is the second installment in author Stieg Larsson’s
The real title of this movie is Män som hatar kvinnor which translates to Men Who Hate Women but it is known in the US as The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. It’s based on the book of the same name that I reviewed yesterday.
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo is a book by the late Swedish writer Steig Larsson. It is the story of a financial journalist who winds up in a career freefall and is offered the job of looking into the case of a missing girl that is over 30 years old, during the course of the case he meets a strange but alluring girl and the two wind up partnering to solve what is more than either originally expected.
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