It’s official: despite some obvious flaws, I am a fan of Stacked. If they could tone down the laugh track and the DJ-voiced brother, it would only help. Anyway, Skyler arrived at the bookstore drunk for her first day on the job and is summarily fired. What? How can that be? Don’t worry, Skyler un-fires herself. Then, through grit, determination, and sassy smarts, Skyler beats out that guy from Arrested Development for the position. Go Skyler! Books with prominent posters visible in last night’s episode, include: The Known World, which won the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Cirle Award (one of us should read this), and Hand Made Modern, which did not.
April 21st, 2005 at 4:11 pm
I was underwhelmed by The Known World. I guess there are people out there who don’t know that there were free blacks in the South before the Civil War, that those people faced enormous pressures, and that many suffered very human tragedies. Those folks will probably be bowled over by this book. But if you know that already, my guess is that the writing isn’t going to win you over. It didn’t me, anyway.
April 22nd, 2005 at 9:16 am
Well that’s too bad. Dag.