Review: Divine Dicks and Mortal Pricks - Walburga Appleseed - January 2024 You know those cozy evenings when you're curled up with a cuppa, and you want something that's both clever and entertaining? Well, I found exactly that in Walburga Appleseed's delightfully irreverent romp through Greek mythology. This isn't your dusty school textbook version of these ancient tales. Appleseed has taken the familiar stories we all half-remember – you know, the ones where Zeus couldn't keep it in his toga and everyone seemed to be related to everyone else – and flipped them on their head. Finally, someone's asking the questions that should have been asked millennia ago: Was Achilles really that heroic? And why on earth did the Trojan War start over what was essentially a cosmic temper tantrum? What I absolutely loved about this book is how it centers the women who've been lurking in the margins of these stories for ages. The goddesses dealing with their philandering hu...

Review: I Choose Darkness - Jenny Lawson - September 2022 Currently, I have been doing the Kindle challenge and getting my ribbons and one of the recent mystery challenges was "Great Reads", so I scrolled through the list of what Amazon considered a great read and came across one that jumped out and screamed, "read me". It looked fun and something that I would enjoy. A blogger that I have followed for a few years is Jenny Lawson aka The Bloggess - Like Mother Theresa, but better is her tagline over on her site https://thebloggess.com/ . She is funny and reminds me of other comedian-type writers I love like Jen Lancaster, Kaz Cooke, Samantha Bee, Laurie Notaro, and Chelsea Handler. If you ever want memoirs but funny ones that leave you LOL'ing then these are females you need to add to your reading lists. I know there has been a lot lately about strong female role models, but to me, these women kick arse as they make you view life through a lens that everyone ca...