Capital Reviews

 Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions [book, nonfiction] I DON'T KNOW, THIS WAS RELATIVELY INTERESTING. I WANTED A NEW BOOK AND WALKED BY A LITTLE LIBRARY AND GRABBED THE ONE THAT FELT DIFFERENT THAN WHAT I'D NORMALLY READ. THIS IS A LETTER ABOUT RAISING A DAUGHTER IN A FEMINIST WAY AND IT ISN'T ANYTHING TOO WILD, BUT THE AUTHOR IS NIGERIAN AND WRITING TO SOMEONE NIGERIAN AND I REALLY LIKED THE POINTS WHERE  A CONCEPT WAS BROADLY RECOGNIZABLE BUT THE SPECIFIC EXAMPLE WAS UNIQUE. LIKE "USING EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY TO JUSTIFY SOMETHING SEXIST" IS DEFINITELY A THING HERE, BUT I LIKE THE EXAMPLE WAS "THAT IS WHY MEN HAVE TO PICK DAUGHTER'S FIRST NAMES" WHICH IS ABSOLUTELY NOT A THING HERE. MOSTLY PRETTY STRAIGHTFOWARD OTHERWISE (MOSTLY STUFF LIKE "DON'T JUST BUY A GIRL DOLLS, GET HER A HELICOPTER TOY IF SHE WANTS") PS. I LIKE THAT THIS IS ACTUALLY JUST AN EMAIL THEY WROTE PUBLISHED INTO A BOOK. I GUESS THERE IS NOTHIN...

 Sweden: Heaven and Hell [movie, "nonfiction"] THIS IS A 1968 MONDO EXPLOITATION ANTI SWEDEN FILM. DOES ANYONE KNOW WHY I WATCHED THIS? DOES ANYONE KNOW WHY I WATCHED THIS? DOES ANYONE KNOW WHY I WATCHED THIS? DOES ANYONE KNOW WHY I WATCHED THIS? DOES ANYONE KNOW WHY I WATCHED THIS? DOES ANYONE KNOW WHY I WATCHED THIS? DOES ANYONE KNOW WHY I WATCHED THIS? DOES ANYONE KNOW WHY I WATCHED THIS? DOES ANYONE KNOW WHY I WATCHED THIS? DOES ANYONE KNOW WHY I WATCHED THIS? DOES ANYONE KNOW WHY I WATCHED THIS? DOES ANYONE KNOW WHY I WATCHED THIS?  PS. THE CONTEXT BEING SEXY SAUNA I FUNNY, BUT THE BEST PART IS THERE BEING A SECRET ALTERNATIVE SONG PLAYING OVER WEIRD DRUNK HOMOEROTIC WOOD CHOPPING JAIL. SESAME STREET COULD HAVE DONE A SEQUEL!

 Poop Cruise [movie, nonfiction] HONESTLY THE NAME OF THIS IS BETTER THAN THIS IS. IT HAD SOME REAL REALITY SHOW STYLE EDITING I DIDN'T LIKE AND NOT REALLY A LOT HAPPENED. IT'S A VERY FUNNY NAME THOUGH.  PS. I HATED THE THREE WOMEN AT THE TABLE AND I HATED THE GUY WHO HAD A HARROWING STORY OF NOT POOPING FOR LIKE 4 DAYS

 Piece by Piece [movie,nonfiction] THIS DIDN'T REALLY SEEM VERY GOOD OR BAD. IT WAS A FAIRLY SLIGHT INTERVIEW ANIMATED TO BE LEGO. THAT IS AN INTERESTING ENOUGH PREMISE BUT IT WAS A LOT OF "I COULDN'T THINK OF A SONG AND THEN I *COULD* THINK OF ONE" WHICH ISN'T VERY MUCH IN TERMS OF CINEMATICS. IT DID HAVE CARL SAGAN TALKING OVER LEGO MARTIN LUTHER KING.  PS. IT DID HAVE PG-SPRAY THAT KINDA SEEMS LIKE IT'S A HARDER DRUG THAN JUST WEED WOULD BE

 Unmentionable [book,audiobook,nonfiction]  NONFICTION TRIVIA BOOK ABOUT BEING A VICTORIAN WOMAN. BEST PART: MULTIPLE BOOKS AT THE TIME SAID 'PINEAPPLE SHAPED BREASTS" WERE THE IDEAL BUT NO ONE IN MODERN TIMES KNOWS WHAT THAT MEANS. I LOVE IT BECAUSE THERE IS LIKE, FOUR DIFFERENT WAYS I CAN IMAGINE THAT MEANING. THE BOOK EVEN WENT INTO CHECKING IF VICTORIANS HAD DIFFERENT SHAPED PINEAPPLES, AND NO, NOT REALLY. PS. I LOVE HOW THIS IS LIKE, THE SECOND GENERATION OF THIS SORT OF BOOK. LIKE THIS BOOK WAS SO MAD AT PEOPLE THINKING THEY USED VIBRATORS ON HYSTERIA, BECAUSE LIKE, THEY DID, BUT THE BOOK WAS SO MAD AND INSISTENT THE SEX INTERPRETATION WAS MODERN AND LIKE 90% OF THE BOOK WAS "DUDE JUST TRUST ME" CITES AND THIS ONE PART WAS LIKE, QUOTES WITH PAGE NUMBERS AND STUFF, WHERE YOU COULD TELL HOW ANGRY THE AUTHOR WAS THE FACT GOT DISTORTED. 

 Mondo Cane [movie, nonfiction] OH! I GET IT! I KNEW THIS MOVIE GENRE WAS CALLED "MONDO" AND I ABSTRACTLY KNEW MONDO WAS 'WORLD' IN ITALIAN AND THIS IS THE FIRST MONDO FILM AND IT'S THAT IT'S THAT IT'S STUFF FROM ALL AROUND THE WORLD, NOT JUST RANDOM STORIES. THIS IS PAINFULLY OBVIOUS BUT IT'S NOT LIKE I WAS WATCHING FACES OF DEATH WORKING OUT WHY IT'S A MONDO FILM. ALSO: MONDO FILMS SUCK, IT'S FUNNY THIS IS THE FIRST ONE AND IT'S BETTER THAN EVERY OTHER ONE AND SOMEHOW LESS RACIST DESPITE BEING 20 YEARS EARLIER THAN MOST OF THEM BUT ALL THESE SUCK AND AREN'T GOOD AND THEY FELT LIKE A HUGE BIG DEAL IN THE EARLY 2000S WHEN THE INTERNET MADE THESE CRAZY TABOO MOVIES SEMI-ACCESSABLE BUT THEY ARE JUST NOTHING.  PS. I LIKE THAT THIS IS ITALIAN SO AMERICA GETS TO BE IN THE LIST OF FOREIGN COUNTRIES AND IT'S LIKE, THE THING WHERE HAWAII GIVES YOU A LAI WHEN YOU VISIT, WOMEN WORK OUT AT GYMS, BIKINI LADIES DISTRACT SAILORS,  PET CEMETERIES ...

 Dear Leader [book, audiobook, nonfiction] THIS IS A BOOK BY A MAN WHO ESCAPED NORTH KOREA. HE HAD THE VERY FUNNY JOB OF PRETENDING TO BE SOUTH KOREAN AND WRITING 'SOUTH KOREAN' POEMS ABOUT HOW GREAT NORTH KOREA IS TO 'LEAK' TO NORTH KOREANS. HE GOT NAMED THE POET LAUREATE OF NORTH KOREA WHEN EVERY COUNTRY SUBMITTED A POEM FOR THE OLYMPICS AND HE GOT TO BE NORTH KOREA'S POET.  THE BOOK IS REALLY GOOD. HE'S A GOOD WRITER. PARTS FELT VAGUELY MADE UP. BUT THAT FEELS UNDERSTANDABLE. PS. OKAY, SO I SPUN ALL YEAR ON THE 'POET LAUREATE' CATEGORY STARTING AND DROPPING LIKE 4 DIFFERENT BOOKS AND I HAVE THE MOST PRETENTIOUS CLAIM I'VE EVER MADE IN MY ENTIRE LIFE: A POET LAUREATE INHERENTLY CAN NOT BE A GOOD POET.  AN ARTS PROGRAM THAT BROADLY FUNDS POETS CAN CREATE GOOD POETRY BUT I THINK A DIRECTLY HIRED BY THE GOVERNMENT POET JUST CAN NOT BE A GOOD POET.   LIKE, IN MY EXTREMELY BAD TAKE HIPSTER MIND THE USE OF A POEM IS EITHER AS A THING FOR SOMEONE SO MARGI...

 Hunt For The Skinwalker [book, audiobook, nonfiction(?)] AS A LITTLE KID CONSPIRACY, CRYPTID, ALIEN, AND JUST GENERAL FAKE WOO SCIENCE STUFF WAS SOMETHING I WAS OBSESSED WITH. I WOULD JUST READ ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING ABOUT A RUSSIAN GUY MAKING BUGS OUT OF ROCKS OR A PREDICTION OF THE WORLD GETTING SWOOPERED IN 1996.  I THINK THE FIRST THING THAT HAPPENED TO STOP THAT WAS JUST GETTING OLDER AND BEING LESS DUMB SO WHEN A BOOK SAID "THEN AN ALIEN TALKED TO ME TELEPATHICALLY" I COULD JUST SAY "NO IT DIDN'T" AND THAT WAS THE END. BUT THE LARGER THING I FEEL LIKE HAPPENED IS THAT CONSPIRACY STUFF JUST ISN'T FUN ANYMORE. IN THE LAST 20 YEARS IT FEELS LIKE EVERYTHING CONSPIRACY STOPPED BEING COOL OR FUN AND IS NOW JUST FAR RIGHT ULTRA CONSERVATIVE STUFF. I KNOW AS A KID PART IS I SIMPLY MISSED ANY POLITICAL UNDERTONE TO SAYING ROTHCHILD IS A SPACE LIZARD, AND THINGS LIKE DISTRUST OF THE GOVERNMENT ARE KINDA INHERENT TO CONSPIRACY AND IS ALWAYS A LITTLE RIGHT LEANI...

 The Cage [book, nonfiction, audiobook] THIS IS HISTORICAL NONFICTION TO GO WITH 7 MOON'S HISTORICAL FICTION. THIS IS MORE ABOUT THE END OF THE CIVIL WAR AND THAT WAS MORE ABOUT THE MIDDLE BUT W/E. I DIDN'T KNOW A TON ABOUT THE SIR LANKAN CIVIL WAR  SO THIS DID FILL IN SOME BLANKS. ALSO IT MADE ME REALIZE THE CYANIDE THING, THE CANADIAN NGO PART AND THE SECRETARY DIEING IN A BOMBING PARTS WERE SPECIFIC REFERENCES. SO THAT IS SOMETHING. THIS BOOK IS WELL WRITTEN BUT IT'S FUNNY HOW MUCH YOU CAN TELL THE AUTHOR CARED ABOUT SOME PARTS AND WROTE VERY ANIMATED EXCITED PARTS ABOUT DESCRIBING SOME THINGS THEN OTHER PARTS YOU CAN TELL THEY DON'T CARE OR KNOW ABOUT FEELS LIKE "WE PASTED A LIST WE FOUND ON WIKIPEDIA'  PS. I THINK HONESTLY THE MOST INTERESTING PART OF THIS WAS THAT IT WAS FROM 2010 AND STILL SEEMED WRITTEN IN THE HALO OF 9/11. AND ABOUT HOW A REALLY COMPLEX AND GREY CIVIL WAR GOT SWEPT INTO EASY BLACK AND WHITE THINKING OF TERRORISM AND HOW MUCH THAT SCREW...

 The Pez Outlaw [movie, nonfiction] THIS MOVIE DOES JUST AN ABSOLUTLEY AMAZING JOB MAKING THE MOST NOTHING STORY IMAGINABLE INTO A SUPER COMPELLING NARRATIVE. I FEEL LIKE THE WAY IT KEEPS SHOWING REINACTMENTS AND HOW THEY ARE ALL HYPER LITERAL TO WHATEVER THE PERSON IS SAYING HAPPENED IS GREAT. ALSO THE WHOLE WEIRD SIDE THING WHERE EVERYONE HATES THAT ONE GUY AND WON'T SAY WHY AND THEN HE HAS A SECRET TREE HOUSE THAT ALSO REMAINS A MYSTERY. I FEEL LIKE THE MOVIE COULD HAVE EXPLAINED HIM THEN JUST WENT "NO WAIT, THIS IS WAY BETTER". PS. THE FACT THEY ACTUALLY HIRED SOMEONE TO ACTUALLY FOLLOW HIM WAS THE BIGGEST PLOT TWIST IN MOVIE HISTORY AND I GASPED IRL

 Cricket's Strangest Matches [book, nonfiction] THE PROBLEM WITH THIS IS I HAVE NO IDEA HOW CRICKET WORKS. THIS BOOK WAS ACTUALLY NOT THAT BAD, BUT IT WAS ABOUT 1/3RD ACTUALLY STORIES ABOUT ACTUALLY INTERESTING CRICKET MATCHES, 1/3RD HEAVY "YOU HAD TO BE THERE" WHERE I'M SURE IT WAS FUNNY TO SEE BUT HAD NO REAL INTERESTING DESCRIPTION AND 1/3RD "THEN THE WICKET GOT A WICKET MADEN AND THEY SCORED 38!" WHERE IT WAS TOTALLY INCOMPREHENSIBLE WHAT IT WAS TALKING ABOUT PS. I HAD NO IDEA FOR THIS CATAGORY. I DON'T KNOW WHAT IDENTIY IS IMPORTANT TO ME SO I WENT WITH JUST READING A BOOK BY AN AUTHOR WITH THE EXACT SAME AS ME. THAT'S AN IDENTITY I IDENTIFY WITH: ANDREW WARDS. 

 Novacene [book, nonfiction] I REALLY LIKE THIS BOOK. I HAVE ALWAYS LIKED JAMES LOVELOCK, ALMOST CERTAINLY BECAUSE I LIKED SIM EARTH AND HE WAS HEAVILY TALKED ABOUT IN THAT. HE KINDA WENT THROUGH A PHASE OF LIKE, REALLY EXTREME ENVIROMENTALISM WHERE HE TALKED ABOUT NOT JUST GLOBAL WARMING BUT MORE LIKE, EARTH BECOMING VENUS AND THE OCEANS BOILING AWAY AND STRIPPING THE EARTH WITH ACID. NOW HE'S 100 YEARS OLD AND HE WROTE THIS REALLY WEIRDLY HOPEFUL BOOK WHERE THAT STILL WILL HAPPEN BUT HE HAS DECIDED THAT THERE IS ENOUGH TIME BEFORE THAT THAT ELECTRONIC LIFE WILL CERTAINLY EXIST BEFORE THEN AND HIS GAIA THEORY CAN CONTINUE ON WITH A NEW FORM OF SELF REGULATION AND IT'S NOT ANY MORE OF A CHANGE THAN ANY OF THE PAST CHANGES LIFE ON EARTH HAS SEEN. I LOVE THAT. PS. ALSO IT MENTIONS AND CONTAINS IN FULL THE POEM "ALL WATCHED OVER MACHINES OF LOVING GRACE" AND I CONSISTANTLY HAVE LOVED EVERYTHING THAT CALLS OUT TO THAT. 

 The Lion House [book, audiobook, nonfiction] THIS IS A LOOSE BIOGRAPHY OF SULEIMAN, SULTAN OF THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE. IT'S REALLY WELL WRITTEN AND INTERESTING BUT I ALSO FEEL LIKE EVERY SINGLE FACT IN IT HAS SLID OFF MY PERFECTLY SMOOTH BRAIN. I FEEL LIKE I LACK ANY MENTAL CONTEXT FOR THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE. I THINK IT'S THE BROADER ISSUE THAT ANY HISTORY THAT IS NON-EUROPEAN ISN'T REALLY TALKED ABOUT IN THE US BUT I DO FEEL LIKE THERE IS VERY SPECIFICALLY A POP HISTORY HOLE TALKING ABOUT THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE SPECIFICALLY. LIKE THE FACT IT WAS GOING ON AT THE SAME TIME THE AMERICAS GOT DISCOVERED MAKES US CONCEPTION OF HISTORY CLASS ALWAYS JUMP OFF EUROPE RIGHT THEN AND NOT GO BACK TO MENTIONING ANYTHING UNTIL ~1700 OR SO.  PS. I LIKE THIS WAS WRITTEN FROM QUOTES AND PRIMARY SOURCES SO SOME OF THE STORIES VERY CLEARLY DID NOT HAPPEN BUT THE BOOK GOES WITH IT. LIKE SOME BATTLE ENDING WHERE A SAINT SHOWS UP WITH A FLAMING SWORD AND DRIVES PEOPLE AWAY OR SEVERAL MENTIONS OF THE TRADE O...

 Electronics for Beginners [book,nonfiction] I'VE BEEN DOING A BUNCH OF HOBBY ELECTRONICS FOR AT LEAST TEN YEARS AND KINDA LONGER THAN THAT. BUT IT'S ALL SELF TAUGHT SO I HAVE A LOT OF THE ISSUES OF THAT, WHERE THE STUFF I AM INTERESTED AND USE I KNOW TONS ABOUT BUT ANYTHING OUTSIDE THAT I KNOW BASICALLY ZERO AND HAVE TO STRUGGLE WITH GUESSING OR CARGO CULT ANSWERS. SO I RENTED A TEXT BOOK AND READ THROUGH THAT. I MEAN, I DON'T FEEL LIKE THERE WAS ANYTHING AMAZING IN THIS, BUT I DO THINK IT'S GOOD TO WORK ON THAT SORT OF BLIND SPOT. LIKE I MEAN, IF YOU SHOWED ME A DIAGRAM I'D KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER THAT A BUTTON CAN COME AFTER A COMPONANT AND WORK THE SAME, BUT JUST READING SOMETHING POINTING BASIC STUFF LIKE THAT IS GOOD TO MAKE ME REALIZE "OH RIGHT, I NEVER EVER DESIGN ANYTHING THAT WAY EVER". I DON'T KNOW, I THINK IT HELPS.  PS. READ THIS BECAUSE I THE LAST TWO BIG PROJECTS AND LAST 250 DOLLARS I'VE SPENT ON ELECTRONICS HOBBY STUFF HAVE FAILED AN...

What I Talk About When I Talk About Running [book, audiobook, nonfiction] I DID REALLY LIKE THIS BOOK, MURAKAMI NONFICTION ABOUT RUNNING.  BUT MAN DID I NOT NEED TO READ MORE ABOUT GETTING OLDER. I FEEL LIKE THE ENTIRE DOWNBEAT TONE OF THE SECOND HALF OF THIS BOOK IS SO HILARIOUSLY TIED TO HIM HAVING LOST. LIKE THE BOOK HAS MIXED HAPPY AND SAD PARTS UNTIL HE DOES BAD IN THE RACE AND IT FLIPS SO HARD TO "WELL I GUESS EVERYONE HAS TO DIE SOMEDAY, EVERYONE OVER 30 IS IN CONSTANT DECAY". LIKE THERE IS AN ALTERNATE UNIVERSE WHERE HE DID FINE IN THAT ONE SPECIFIC MARATHON AND WROTE THE BOOK TOTALLY DIFFERENT.   PS. HE WENT TO MAINE AND BOUGHT JAZZ AND THE RED SOCKS RAIN MADE HIS KNEE HURT, BUT HIS KNEE RECOVERED IN ONE DAY IN NEW YORK.

His & Hers [movie, nonfiction] THIS IS LIKE REVERSE BECHDEL TEST, IT IS 70 INTERVIEWS WITH PROGRESSIVELY OLDER WOMEN FROM LIKE 3 TO 100 ABOUT THE MOST IMPORTANT MAN IN THEIR LIFE. SO LIKE LITTLE KIDS TALKING ABOUT THEIR DAD THEN TEENS ABOUT THEIR BOYFRIENDS, THEN NEWLY MARRIED WIVES, THEN ABOUT BABY SONS, THEN ABOUT THEIR TEEN SONS, THEN ABOUT THEIR ADULT SON, THEN THEIR RETIRED HUSBANDS, THEN ABOUT THEIR DEAD HUSBAND. ALSO EVERYONE IS VERY VERY IRISH. THE TONE OF THIS MOVIE WAS REALLY WEIRD. YOU THINK IT WOULD BE BITTERSWEET OR EVEN DARK, THAT WOULD BE AN EASY MOVIE TO MAKE, BUT EVERYONE SEEMS GENERALLY HAPPY, BUT THE WHOLE THING IS FILMED IN AN INCREDIBLY BLEAK WAY WHERE NO ONE BUT THE WOMAN IS EVER SHOWN AND MOST SHOTS ARE HER WALKING AROUND AN EMPTY HOUSE SHOT FROM A LONG WAY AWAY SILENTLY.  PS. (HONESTLY EVEN THOUGH I'M NOT AN IRISH WOMAN AND NOTHING BAD HAPPENED I THINK THIS MOVIE MADE ME REALLY SAD. I THINK I'M STILL STRUGGLING WITH TURNING 40, LIKE, IT'S A MOVIE...

But you don't look autistic at all [book, nonfiction] I READ THIS AS "A COMEDIC MEMOIR", IT'S A BOOK ABOUT THE EXPERIENCES OF A DUTCH PHOTOGRAPHER/FASHION MODEL GROWING UP AND GETTING DIAGNOSED WITH AUTISM. HERE IS THE THING THOUGH, MANY OF THE REVIEWS OF THE BOOK LIST IT AS WITTY/FUNNY AND LIKE.... IT'S NOT. I DON'T MEAN THAT AS A NEGATIVE REVIEW TYPE THING, IT'S JUST LITERALLY NOT THAT BOOK. IT'S ABOUT 2/3RDS A DESCRIPTION OF WHAT AUTISM IS AND ABOUT 1/3RD A PRETTY STRAIGHTFORWARD TELLING OF HER EXPERIENCE PLUS A FEW CHAPTERS TELLING ABOUT SOME OTHER PEOPLE SHE KNOWS AND THEIR EXPERIENCES. THERE IS LIKE MAYBE 4 JOKES OR ATTEMPTS AT HUMOR IN THE ENTIRE BOOK. IT'S LITERALLY NOT A HUMOROUS BOOK. IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE IT'S CLEAR EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED, LOOKING AT HER ON THE COVER AND GOING BY EXPECTATIONS I THINK PEOPLE SLOTTED HER INTO PIXIE DREAMGIRL AND THEN READ THE WHOLE BOOK AND WROTE THEIR REVIEW BASED ON THE IDEA SHE'S SO QUIRKY WHEN ...

What Cats Want: An Illustrated Guide for Truly Understanding Your Cat [book, nonfiction] I'LL BE HONEST, I'VE MIXED IT UP WITH DUMB OR LIGHT BOOKS, BUT I'VE BEEN READING TOO MANY HEAVY SUBJECT BOOKS IN TOO SHORT OF A TIME. MOST OF THE PORTLAND PICK OF THE WEEK BOOKS SEEM TO BE VERY "SERIOUS" SO I REALLY JUST SCROLLED THROUGH THE LIST AND PICKED THE ONE THAT SEEMED THE LIGHTEST. WHICH WAS AN ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO OWNING A CAT BY A JAPANESE CAT DOCTOR. IF NOTHING ELSE THIS MOVIE EXTREMELY WINS ON HAVING A LOT OF GOOD CUT AND PASTEABLE CAT IMAGES.  PS. I DON'T EVEN OWN A CAT!

Everything Sad is Untrue [book, audiobook, nonfiction] I REALLY LIKED THIS BOOK, MORE THAN I EXPECTED. IT'S A MOSTLY NONFICTION AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF AN IRANIAN REFUGEE TO AMERICA WRITTEN FICTIONALLY AS IF HE WAS WRITING IT AT 12 YEARS OLD, BUT WITH THE ADDED GIMMICK OF EVERY PART OF IT BEING AS MUCH ABOUT THE CONCEPT OF 'STORIES" AS IT WAS ABOUT THE EVENTS. THAT FEELS LIKE POSSIBLY TOO MANY COMPETING PREMISES FOR A BOOK BUT IT FELT LIKE A REALLY ENGAGING AND WELL THOUGHT OUT BOOK. THE CONTENT OF THE STORIES WERE INTERESTING AND THE POINTS ABOUT STORYTELLING SEEMED LEGITIMATELY PERCEPTIVE.  PS. LIKE, IT MANAGED TO PULL THE VERY GOOFY CLAIM OF 'YOUR GRANDFATHER DYING IN IRAN IS A LOT LIKE KILLING AN ELEMENTAL FIEND IN FINAL FANTASY" INTO A RELATIVELY POIGNANT POINT. 

Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law [book, audiobook, nonfiction] ONCE AGAIN STRETCHING CATEGORIES TO COUNT A BRAND NEW BOOK AS "A BOOK BY AN AUTHOR I LOVE" BUT I LOVE MARY ROACH, I LOVE HOW SHE STARTED OUT WRITING ABOUT BIG EXCITING TOPICS BUT REALIZED EVERYONE JUST LIKES HER WRITING SO NOW PICKS VERY DULL TOPICS AND THEN MAKES THEM GREAT BY BEING SUPER MARY ROACHY ABOUT IT. THIS IS JUST A BOOK ABOUT ANIMAL CONTROL ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS AND IT'S GREAT.  PS. ALSO A CHAPTER ABOUT BEANS.