2014 Reading: Sex and Violence

This book, being in the young adult section caught my eye one day and I knew that something had to be different about it. I picked t up and read the synopsis inside the jacket and found this:

Sex has always come without consequences for seventeen-year-old Evan. Until he hooks up with the wrong girl and finds himself in the wrong place at very much the wrong time. After an assault that leaves Evan scarred inside and out, he and his father retreat to the family cabin in rural Minnesota—which, ironically, turns out to be the one place where Evan can't escape other people. Including himself. It may also offer him his best shot at making sense of his life again.

Well, needless to say, I was intrigued.

The concept of the book is a good one, although I must say I thought it was going to take a drastically different turn than it actually did... Oh well, that's what I get for having such dirty thoughts in my head.

I do have to say that the one thing that really pissed me off about this book was the fact that the main character was 17-18 and he uses these juvenile terms for sex... Like, "doing it" or "making it"... I don't think he once calls it a grown up term. Sex. Fucking. I mean, it's not like there was no cursing in the book, there's TONS in this. Plus, there's drugs and alcohol and violence... and he says things like "boobies" and "my thing" in regards to his penis...

I like to think by the time I was 17-18, I had figured out more interesting terms for sexual organs.

And truthfully, I expected more PTSD. That may sound weird, but I am an odd person who loves other people's pain.

2014 Reading: Hyperbole and a Half

This book was hilarious. But it was also kind of sad and true.


There was a giant section on depression that feels like she literally wrote down all the things that would go through a person's head when they feel like nothing is worth getting up for. The vicious cycle of emotions that you run through within a very short amount of time that all come spiraling back thinking that getting out of bed in the morning is seriously not worth the effort.


Then there's the chapter about her mentally retard dog and everything turns funny again.


Delightful.

2014 Reading: Hunt and Run

Stargate Atlantis. 'Nuff said.

Seriously, this book was basically glorified fanfiction and the only reason I picked it up was because it had a big picture of Ronon on the cover. Mmm, Ronon.

Maybe I should do my next vlog about Stargate: Atlantis.

2014 Reading: Role Models

Some of us want hot, lunatic porn sex and want it forever! (pg 228)

There are two people whom I want to be like when I grow up: RuPaul and John Waters. Since I already read the RuPaul autobio, this choice of book was perfect for the next in line. I didn't even know it existed until I saw it in the library and knew that I needed it right away.

John Waters is one of my idols. I love everything he does and I love the things he chooses to be. He is hilarious and I really wish that I could just spend a day in his brain. His sense of humor is often even more disturbing than my own and I respect that. Sometimes, it's nice to know that you are not the weirdest one out there, you know?

I love that this book sort of gets into his motivations a little bit and people he looks up to as well. He likes people and things that I have never heard of, but then again, he also likes a lot of the same things that I do. I trust his judgment (except when it comes to going into dangerous bars. That might be something that I'll avoid, thank you very much.) In fact, he gives a list of books that he loves and recommends to everyone, and I think I am really going to check them all out (if I can find them, some of them are pretty obscure) because they looked very interesting.

Failing can be a relief for some. A sexual position. 

A way of life. A choice. Some kind of happiness that never 

lets you down. (pg 284)

His outlook on things really makes me feel better. He embraces the stranger and the ugly. He is not afraid of being laughed at or yelled at, he actively seeks it and sometimes I just wish that I were like that. I wish that I could take everything that was thrown at me and make something of it.

This book was hilarious and insightful and I highly recommend it.