Helga without the H

Five star review, originally posted here on September 29th, 2025: Well wasn’t this just delightful? Yes, yes it was. Hiller starts off his book by telling us that he loves the shit out of actor memoirs. It’s his favorite “genre.” This is the first time I’ve ever heard anybody else say they love these books … More Goodreads Review: Actress of a Certain Age: My Twenty-Year Trail to Overnight Success by Jeff Hiller

Three star review, originally posted here on September 25th, 2025 This is a good book to read 2 days before your period starts. That is, if you are like me and find yourself crying at cheesy commercials, wondering WTF is wrong with you and why is every cheesy thing tearing you to bits, then realizing, … More Goodreads Review: Wish You Well by David Baldacci

Four star review, originally posted here on August 29th, 2025: This book was highly recommended to me by my lovely spouse as the perfect book for escapism. He never recommends books to me, but was adamant about this one after several discussions we’ve had recently about trying to find books that really suck us in. … More Goodreads Review: Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch

Five star review, originally posted here on August 29th, 2025: This was fantastic. An absolutely perfect work of non-fiction. This book is just non-stop animal facts, and they’re all fucking fascinating. It took several days before I broke myself of the habit of contacting my poor husband with constant weird animal facts. “Let me tell … More Goodreads Review: Bitch: On the Female of the Species by Lucy Cooke