My World is Made of Books

Megan. 21. Books turn muggles into wizards.

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Review: The Opposite of Loneliness

Author: Marina Keegan

50 Book Challenge: 7/50

Popsugar Reading Challenge: N/A

Date Finished: June 30, 2016

Honestly, I don't know where to start with this book. I loved it, I loved it so much. This will become one of the books that I cherish forever. This will become one of the books that I keep coming back to for comfort because it's just that good. This is one of the books that I will steadfastly recommend to any friend looking for reading material. It's got something for everyone: humor, tragedy, prose, non-fiction, and a writing style that will draw you in like a fly to a praying mantis. The loos of Marina Keegan is a loss to us all simply because of the immense talent that she possessed.

My favorite stories were "Hail, Full of Grace", "Sclerotherapy", and "Challenger Deep" in the fiction portion of the book and "Stability in Motion" as well as "Putting the 'Fun' back in Eschatology" in the non-fiction portion of the book. Marina Keegan just has this way of pulling you into the story so that you feel like you are really there and a way of explaining the context of the story to you in a way that doesn't seem gaudy or excessive.

This is probably flat out my favorite book that I have read as of yet in 2016. I only wish there would be more of Marina's work to expect.

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Badass bookworms carrying monster sized bags, foregoing comfort and fashion, because yes, of course books are essential everyday things we need to take everywhere with us.

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Books Added to My "Want to Read Shelf" in May

# Books: 4

Solutions and Other Problems, Allie Brosh

A Child's First Book of Trump, Michael Ian Black

Moranifesto, Caitlin Moran

Treats, Lara Williams

These are the books that I have added to my "Want to Read Shelf" in Goodreads during the month of May. It's not a ton, but I'm sure I will continue to add to the list steadily. (The number currently hovers just around 110 books. It goes down a little when I start reading a new book, and up a little when I watch monthly TBRs or Reviews from other Bookblrs or BookTubers.)

I found Solutions and Other Problems as a I was rating Hyperbole and a Half on Goodreads. I loved reading Hyperbole, so it seems natural to add Allie Brosh's next book to my want to read shelf. This is most likely a book that I will read sooner rather than later.

I heard about A Child's First Book of Trump when I was watching Seth Meyers interview Michael Ian Black. I pay a lot of attention to American politics and I'm pretty in tune to what's currently going on, so naturally this came up as a suggested video in my YouTube sidebar and I watched it. This is supposedly a satirical book introducing the reader to Donald Trump in the style of a children's book. Seth read a few of the example pages and I laughed so hard that I knew I had to get this as a gag gift or coffee-table type book, so I pre-ordered it on Amazon. The book comes out July 5, 2016 and I am eagerly awaiting it's arrival at my doorstep.

I added Moranifesto to my reading list when I heard Hannah Witton reveiw it on her YouTube channel. I added it for two reasons. One, I actually haven't read any books by Catlin Moran yet - GASP - as much as I incontestably enjoy feminist literature. So I obviously need to read her books. Two, as I have been reading through Bad Feminist by Roxanne Gay, Gay has voiced some criticism in one of her essays of the way that Moran integrates her humor into the feminism of the books that she writes. I, having read none of Moran's books, want to see for myself before making a decision. Thus, Moranifesto was added to the list

I head about Treats while I watched Lena of JustKissMyFrog on YouTube review some of the books that she has read this year. She decribed it as a book of essays that were so well written she was in awe at the way Williams changed her mind about short stories. As a person who addmittedly enjoys books of essays more than possibly any other genre of book, I knew I had to read this.

So that's where I am for May. In the future, I will probably choose a selection of the books that I'm most excited to read, but there were so few this month, that I thought I'd just talk about them all.

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May Currently Reading Shelf

# Books: 9

Asking for It: The Alarming Rise of Rape Culture and What We Can Do about It, Kate Harding

Bad Feminist, Roxane Gay

Fangirl, Rainbow Rowell

Mosquitoland, David Arnold

Grace & Style: The Art of Pretending You Have It, Grace Helbig

Ain't I a Woman! A Book of Women's Poetry from Around the World, Compiled by Illona Linthwaite

The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories, Marina Keegan

It's Kind of a Funny Story, Ned Vizzini

This Star Won't Go Out: The Life and Words of Esther Grace Earl, Esther Earl

I realize that there are many, many books on my currently reading shelf. There are several that will probably dissappear pretty quickly, and there are others that will probably still be there for a while. The way I figure, reading is reading, so I don't stop myself from starting new books, even when I am in the process of reading ten others. This is partially because I have next to no willpower and partially because I have a very short attention span and bounce from book to book over the course of a day.

I have also learned that I have a propensity for reading books of essays and books about very serious subjects. Two of the books on this list that I am currently most excited about are Asking for It and Bad Feminist. Not because I really love feeling sad about the world all the time, but because these books are so well written about such complex topics, and the authors appraoch these topics so well.

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May Acquisitions

Amazon 

Pre-Order: A Child's First Book Of Trump, Michael Ian Black

Magers & Quinn Booksellers, Minneapolis

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass, Lewis Carroll

Asking for it: The Alarming Rise of Rape Culture - and What We Can Do About It, Kate Harding

Catch-22, Joseph Heller

Girls & Sex: Navigating the Complicated New Landscape, Peggy Orenstein

Hyperbole and a Half, Allie Brosh

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I didn’t know just how much I needed this book in my life. With great eloquence and raw honesty, Laura Bates details the sexism that flows throughout our world each and every day. I wanted to write down and highlight almost every word of the book– each sentence was a new revelation that I had felt but never been able to articulate in the past. I enjoyed that she mixed in other submissions to #everydaysexism alongside her own word, which truly showed the pervasive nature of sexism in society. 5 Stars, without a doubt. You NEED to go read this book.

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Books and Cupcakes BPC | April | 27. Bookmarker 

one of my favorite bookmarks!

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“Similarly, he forgot - or never really understood - that we live in a culture where men, as a group, have more power than women. This isn't a controversial statement, despite the protestations of guys who funnel their frustration that not all extremely young, conventionally attractive women want to sleep with them into and argument that women, as a group, have "all the power." (Bill Maher, repping for his fan base, famously jokes that men have to do all sorts of shit to get laid, but women only have to do "their hair.") The really great thing about this argument is how the patently nonsensical premise - that some young women's ability to manipulate certain men equals a greater degree of gendered power than say, owning the presidency for 220-odd years - obscures the most chilling part: in this mindset, "all the power" means, simply, the power to withhold consent. Let that sink in for a minute. If one believes women are more powerful that men because we own practically all of the vaginas, then women's power to withhold consent to sex is the greatest power there is. Which means the guy who can take away a woman's right to consent is basically a superhero. Right?”

- Kate Harding, Asking for It: The Alarming Rise of Rape Culture and What We Can Do about It

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Review: Where the Sidewalk Ends

Author: Shel Silverstein

50 Book Challenge: 6/50

Popsugar Reading Challenge: "Book You Can Finish in a Day"

Date Finished: May 23, 2016

No, this is not a particularly challenging book, unless you are just learning to read, in which case, it is understandably challenging. However, it is a book that I easily finished in a day. I love reading Shel Silverstein. He had so much whimsy. Whenever I read his poems, I feel that anything is possible. He has this way about his words that transports anyone back to their childhood.

My favorite poems are "I must remember", "Listen to the Mustn'ts", "Early Bird", "Smart", "Two Boxes", "Invention", "Sick", "Who", "Wild Boar", "No Difference", "The Planet of Mars", "Me Stew", "Paul Bunyan", "The Bagpipe Who Didn't Say No", and "Band-Aids".

"Listen to the MUSTN'TS, child, Listen to the DON'TS Listen to the SHOULDN'TS The IMPOSSIBLES, the WON'TS Listen to the NEVER HAVES Then listen close to me -- Anything can happen, child, ANYTHING can be."

- Listen to the MUSTN'TS, Shel Silverstein

"I have a Band-Aid on my finger One on my knee, and one on my nose One on my heel, and two on my shoulder, Three on my elbow, and nine on my toes. Two on my wrist, and one on my ankle, One on my chin, and one on my thigh, Four on my belly, amd five on my bottom, One on my forehead, and one on my eye. One on my neck, and in case I might need 'em I have a full box of thirty-five more. But oh! I do think it's sort of a pity I don't have a cut or a sore!"

- Band-Aids, Shel Silverstein

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