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My Dead Pets Are Interesting
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Lenore Zion
Jim Taone
, May 01, 2013
Hilarious. I mean, laugh out loud hilarious. The only problem I had with this book was explaining to my roommates, as I burst out in laughter, why I'm laughing at a group of kids running away from an old lady screaming obscenities after having just shown her their genitals. I read half of this book out loud only because I had to explain that I wasn't laughing at a midget but rather, Lenore's discourse with the midget. There's no obvious reaches for laughs here. Zion isn't being joke-y or setting up a punch line. There's just humor in the re-telling. It's okay though, I think we're laughing WITH her, not AT her.
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The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving
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Jonathan Evison
Jim Taone
, January 02, 2013
Ben Benjamin is a mess. He has been dragged through the mud all the way to hell and back. He is the type of person you would expect to draw the curtains, stay inside and slowly let himself go. You expect to see him on an episode of "Hoarders" or "Intervention" and the flashbacks that fill the novel would be the reason that the hoarding or shooting up began. Ben's resilient though. Through it all while not ready to let go maybe he is ready to start moving on. That is what made this novel the best I read of 2012. This is not a story of a hero saving the day after some conflict that we learn about early on. This story weaves it's way between current day Ben, who is kind of a wreck, and latter day Ben who thought his life was in place until one event shattered it. We are piecemealed parts of these flashbacks. The reader can guess what this event is as it begins to unfold but that doesn't lighten the shock of it being spelled out on the page. Evison has done a great job of showing you someone that is imperfect. Makes bad decisions along the way to moving on. The most important decision made by Ben Benjamin, however, is his decision to start moving on. He wants to accept his life and the past that now defines it. He isn't ready to let go and maybe even move on but for that we have a great novel showing someone that is trying. He's doing his best the only way he knows how and I don't know anyone that couldn't learn a little something from Ben.
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Writers Notebook Craft Essays from Tin House
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Anna Keesey
Jim Taone
, December 30, 2012
An excellent collection of essays that provide great guidance and at many times provide examples of the do's and dont's through writing in print.
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