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07/22/2025 by Debbi

Me, reading a book while on vacation in Oregon, many years ago.

Ah, you can see I’ve always dressed spiffy! In jeans and a T-shirt with writing on it. And tennies. Or sneakers, if you’re from where they call them that. 🙂

Oh, what I’m reading now. Well … let’s go to the video~~, as someone or other you never heard of, unless you’re as old as me, once said~~! 🙂

Hi! Today, I don’t have a review, but I just wanted to say that at one point I was reading this book. I’m still technically reading it and I want to get back to it. Unfortunately. In the meantime, I’ve gotten a few more books sent my way, a few more.

My Book Review of ‘Equal Rites’

04/15/2025 by Debbi

Hi. Today I’m reviewing Equal Rites by Terry Pratchett. I love this book.

My End of March Update

04/01/2025 by Debbi

Hi everyone. Well, I don’t have a book finished yet to review. I will tell you that I’m currently reading this, The Agonies by Ben Faulkner, as well as Equal Rites by Terry Pratchett on my own, because I love Terry Pratchett, The Girl on Greenwich Street by Lauren Willig, and let’s see, what else? Wealth Management, Edward Zuckerman. Really good, all of them. And then finally a personal favorite because I just love Raymond Chandler. Trouble is My Business. I do love that cover, I got to say.

On top of that, I just got back from physical and occupational therapy. I’ve got a script breakdown, an assistant director to find and attach to this project that I’m working on, a couple of scripts I’m supposed to give notes on. What else am I doing? Oh, yes, there’s a kind of TV series that I’m working on, but it’s not really a TV series. It’s a mock writer’s room, and I’m enjoying it immensely, but it does keep me quite busy.

So in any event, I just thought I would give you that update. That’s where I’m at right now, and with any luck, someday everything will work out with physical therapy, and I won’t be quite as complainy about it as I usually am. Complainy, that’s a word, right? Alrighty, that’s it then. Just wanted to check in and say, hi, Be seeing you!

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PS: Happy April Fool’s Day! None of this is a prank, BTW. 🙂

My Book Preview of ‘Rotten: No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs’

12/24/2024 by Debbi

Hi. Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to finish this book. I have to return it to the library, and I didn’t have time to finish it and I really, really want to. So I’ll probably end up returning it and then asking for it right back, because this book, and I will show you the title here, is one of the best, most brilliant books about a celebrity I’ve read in a long time, and I’ve read some good ones and I’ve read some that I go, yeah, okay, that’s nice. But John Lyden’s book here called Rotten: No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs. It’s just absolutely the most brilliant bloody book I’ve read in a while. I mean, seriously wonderful. He just speaks his mind and tells you straight out stuff that happened to him and it really reached me. I really felt that we have certain things in common and we have great differences as well.

His childhood was just wreckage in so many ways. Medically, family-wise, situation-wise. Oh goodness. But I do love that he started off the book with one of my favorite lines. “Ever get the feeling you’ve been cheated?” I didn’t do that right, but that’s the idea. Ever get the feeling you’ve been cheated?Yes, I have now and then gotten the feeling definitely that I have been cheated for sure. I don’t know what accent I’m doing, so don’t mind me. I can’t do his accent to save my life, but what a great book. Just freaking brilliant. Honest to God. I love this book and I’ve only just gotten up to … what chapter, I’m not even sure. I’ve only just reached, is that the sixth chapter?

“I Want You to Know that I Hate You, Baby.”

“Destiny. Do you really believe in destiny? Things happen because you make them happen. There’s no such thing as destiny or fate or any of that. Everything seemed impossible to the Sex Pistols, even gaining an audience. During our heyday, it was the arty farty lot, the socialists and trendies who would come to the gigs. I especially liked the working class bit creeping in. That didn’t appeal much to Malcolm McLaren and his friends because they were pushed to the back of the hall very quickly. Those were the chaotic days. The only real violence we would get would never be from our audiences. It would be from outsiders. Usually the men wearing blue uniforms. The regular boot boys–football hooligans–never needed victims. They were vicious gangs of drunkards that roamed the streets looking for anything to prey on as long as there were fifteen of them and one of you.”

Okay, I will stop there, but it is just the most awesome read and everybody should read it, I think. Anyway, if you love music, if you love biographies, if you love memoirs, this is priceless stuff. Brilliant. Bloody brilliant. Thank you very much and I’ll be seeing you.

PS: I promise to finish this one and write something more like an actual review! 🙂