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3.75 AVERAGE
3.75 AVERAGE
I love Caitlin Moran's writing, so I was excited to read this collection of her published pieces. They ranged from lighthearted and funny to gritty and truthful, which I appreciated. However, if you are not a fan of the same TV shows that she is, a chunk of this book will be irrelevant to you. She included multiple reviews of both "Downton Abbey" and "Sherlock" that I ended up flipping past, but if you also watch those shows then you would probably enjoy those ones. Overall, an easy read in bite-size pieces.
laugh out loud in the airport. caitlin moran, i love you very very much.
Not as good as her other book, but still enjoyable.
Sometimes the best bits of this collection of articles, interviews, and essays are the commentaries Moran has written to precede them. The foreword, for example, nearly made me pee my pants. But everything is enjoyable to read, and the accounts of Moran's late-night chats with her husband are especially (screamingly) funny. Love this British lady.
Really funny stuff. I'm definitely going to be looking for Moran's other book.
4,5/5
Autorka píše absolútne fantasticky a ja som si knihu naozaj užila. Miestami som sa dosť smiala.
Ale boli tu aj slabšie články (niežeby boli zle napísané) a neaktuálne.
No čo, od autorky si chcem prečítať všetko.
A strašne by som sa s ňou raz chcela stretnúť a pokecať s ňou, určite by to bol zážitok.
Autorka píše absolútne fantasticky a ja som si knihu naozaj užila. Miestami som sa dosť smiala.
Ale boli tu aj slabšie články (niežeby boli zle napísané) a neaktuálne.
No čo, od autorky si chcem prečítať všetko.
A strašne by som sa s ňou raz chcela stretnúť a pokecať s ňou, určite by to bol zážitok.
Caitlin Moran follows up with an equally honest, timely and hilarious collection of pieces . She somehow manages to tackle heavy topics with incredible lightness, but not so far as to minimize their significance. There are time when I laughed out loud, and times when my heart felt heavy, in sympathy with her. She gives a voice to the everywoman
I don't usually read this sort of book. When I read nonfiction, it's either as professional development or it's history from an object orientation. But I ran across Moran's article on libraries (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/caitlin-moran/libraries-cathedrals-of-o_b_2103362.html), which I enjoyed very much. So I picked up Moranthology.
I didn't realize I'd find a kindred soul.
It didn't take much to convince me of that. She had me at "There's a lot of Sherlock love in here. In many ways, this book might as well be called 'Deduce THIS, Sexlock Holmes!' with a picture of me licking his meerschaum, cross-eyed and screaming." I learned quite a bit about Keith Richards and Lady Gaga, about Benedict Cumberbatch and Doctor Who. I also relived what it means to really be poor, and how that should inform the debate on welfare.
I loved this book, and I highly recommend it for literally everyone I know.
I didn't realize I'd find a kindred soul.
It didn't take much to convince me of that. She had me at "There's a lot of Sherlock love in here. In many ways, this book might as well be called 'Deduce THIS, Sexlock Holmes!' with a picture of me licking his meerschaum, cross-eyed and screaming." I learned quite a bit about Keith Richards and Lady Gaga, about Benedict Cumberbatch and Doctor Who. I also relived what it means to really be poor, and how that should inform the debate on welfare.
I loved this book, and I highly recommend it for literally everyone I know.
funny
lighthearted
medium-paced
After reading ‘How To Be a Woman’ and enjoying the combination of amusing anecdotes and serious food for thought, I was eager to read more by Caitlin Moran. However, ‘Moranthology’ really wasn’t what I expected as the book is comprised of recycled articles from her years writing columns instead of fresh writing. This results in a choppy structure and the subject changing every couple of pages.
She’s seemingly attempted to cover every topic under the sun in 350 pages – everything from was on telly four years ago to accounts of the times she met endless random celebrities to conversations with her husband. I just wish that she would pick a topic and stick to it. Every time she hit on a good point that I wanted her to expand on, it was gone in a couple of pages and replaced with another review of a TV show or another interview with a celebrity, neither of which I actually care about and makes the book feel very dated. Talking about the first season of the Great British Bake Off and Michael Jackson’s memorial just isn’t relevant to me when I’m reading it four years after publication. I wanted more Caitlin, and what I got was more... everybody else.
I’ve given it 2 stars though because occasionally she does make a good point (when she’s not busy name-dropping or fangirling over Sherlock) for example, I enjoyed the articles on MTV sexism and burqas, I wish there was more of that. Also, the conversations between her and her husband are hilarious.
She’s seemingly attempted to cover every topic under the sun in 350 pages – everything from was on telly four years ago to accounts of the times she met endless random celebrities to conversations with her husband. I just wish that she would pick a topic and stick to it. Every time she hit on a good point that I wanted her to expand on, it was gone in a couple of pages and replaced with another review of a TV show or another interview with a celebrity, neither of which I actually care about and makes the book feel very dated. Talking about the first season of the Great British Bake Off and Michael Jackson’s memorial just isn’t relevant to me when I’m reading it four years after publication. I wanted more Caitlin, and what I got was more... everybody else.
I’ve given it 2 stars though because occasionally she does make a good point (when she’s not busy name-dropping or fangirling over Sherlock) for example, I enjoyed the articles on MTV sexism and burqas, I wish there was more of that. Also, the conversations between her and her husband are hilarious.