A List of Things That Didn't Kill Me
Title | A List of Things That Didn't Kill Me PDF eBook |
Author | Jason Schmidt |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Pages | 432 |
Release | 2015-01-06 |
Genre | Family & Relationships |
ISBN | 0374380139 |
In this memoir, Jason Schmidt tells the story of growing up with an abusive father, who contracted HIV and ultimately died of AIDS when Jason was a teenager.
A List of Things That Didn't Kill Me
Title | A List of Things That Didn't Kill Me PDF eBook |
Author | Jason Schmidt |
Publisher | Macmillan + ORM |
Pages | 381 |
Release | 2015-01-06 |
Genre | Young Adult Nonfiction |
ISBN | 0374380147 |
Jason Schmidt wasn't surprised when he came home one day during his junior year of high school and found his father, Mark, crawling around in a giant pool of blood. Things like that had been happening a lot since Mark had been diagnosed with HIV, three years earlier. Jason's life with Mark was full of secrets—about drugs, crime, and sex. If the straights—people with normal lives—ever found out any of those secrets, the police would come. Jason's home would be torn apart. So the rule, since Jason had been in preschool, was never to tell the straights anything. A List of Things That Didn't Kill Me is a funny, disturbing memoir full of brutal insights and unexpected wit that explores the question: How do you find your moral center in a world that doesn't seem to have one?
What Didn't Kill Me Made Me Funny
Title | What Didn't Kill Me Made Me Funny PDF eBook |
Author | Sally Baucke |
Publisher | CreateSpace |
Pages | 238 |
Release | 2013-07-26 |
Genre | Humor |
ISBN | 9781490484129 |
Do you have your share of struggles? Do you struggle when life hands you difficulties? Even failures? Do tears simply wreak havoc on your mascara? Life's daily grind does not have to derail our joy. In What Didn't Kill Me Made Me Funny, Sally challenges us to see life as a "work in progress," where frustration and funny go hand in hand. Walk alongside Sally on her hilarious journey, as she tackles everyday insecurities with her signature brand of self-effacing humor. From BFFs and babies to womanhood and work, you will find yourself laughing out loud at this true tale of a directionally-challenged, hair-obsessed, tiara-toting Royal wanna-be.
Please Kill Me
Title | Please Kill Me PDF eBook |
Author | Legs McNeil |
Publisher | Grove Press |
Pages | 496 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 9780802142641 |
Now in paperback, this first oral history of the most nihilistic of all pop movements brings the sound of the punk generation chillingly to life with 50 new pages of depraved testimony. "Please Kill Me" reads like a fast-paced novel, but the tragedies it contains are all too human and all too real. photos.
This Will Kill You
Title | This Will Kill You PDF eBook |
Author | HP Newquist |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Pages | 356 |
Release | 2009-05-26 |
Genre | Humor |
ISBN | 9780312540623 |
Revealing the intriguing facts behind the many ways humans bite the dust, "This Will Kill You" is a thoroughly researched and illustrated--not to mention hilarious--book that offers a unique peek under the Grim Reaper's robe.
You Can't Kill Me Twice
Title | You Can't Kill Me Twice PDF eBook |
Author | Charlyne Yi |
Publisher | Andrews Mcmeel+ORM |
Pages | 133 |
Release | 2019-11-19 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 1524858552 |
A deeply personal collection of poetry and art by the award-winning actor, comedian, and composer. With a poetic voice that is by turns lyrical and plainspoken, Charlyne Yi writes about the uncertainty of relationships, the absurdity of societal expectations, family trauma, and identity. In this intimate collection, you’ll find poems and accompanying line illustrations that are playful and profound, sometimes darkly funny, and often acutely moving. “Direct, personal and attention holding. It’s Yi as you may not have seen or heard her before . . . In short bursts that barely fill a page, often accompanied by line illustrations to underscore them, the poetic voice in Yi’s first book of poetry can be alternately angry, playful, blunt, and lyrical.” —The MetroWest Daily News “It’s clear that the reader is about to embark on a literary journey marked by an acceptance—and worship—of all things tender, open, sensitive, authentic, and human. It also offers ideas on kindness, race, culture . . . a testimony to being alive—it’s powerful in its quietness, its exactness. It’s soft, real, and to the point.” —Little Infinite
What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker
Title | What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker PDF eBook |
Author | Damon Young |
Publisher | HarperCollins |
Pages | 303 |
Release | 2019-03-26 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0062684337 |
A Finalist for the NAACP Image Award A Finalist for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Nonfiction A Finalist for the Thurber Prize for American Humor Longlisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay An NPR Best Book of the Year A Washington Independent Review of Books Favorite of the Year From the host of podcast "Stuck with Damon Young," cofounder of VerySmartBrothas.com, and one of the most read writers on race and culture at work today, a provocative and humorous memoir-in-essays that explores the ever-shifting definitions of what it means to be Black (and male) in America For Damon Young, existing while Black is an extreme sport. The act of possessing black skin while searching for space to breathe in Americais enough to induce a ceaseless state of angst where questions such as “How should I react here, as a professional black person?” and “Will this white person’s potato salad kill me?” are forever relevant. What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker chronicles Young’s efforts to survive while battling and making sense of the various neuroses his country has given him. It’s a condition that’s sometimes stretched to absurd limits, provoking the angst that made him question if he was any good at the “being straight” thing, as if his sexual orientation was something he could practice and get better at, like a crossover dribble move or knitting; creating the farce where, as a teen, he wished for a white person to call him a racial slur just so he could fight him and have a great story about it; and generating the surreality of watching gentrification transform his Pittsburgh neighborhood from predominantly Black to “Portlandia . . . but with Pierogies.” And, at its most devastating, it provides him reason to believe that his mother would be alive today if she were white. From one of our most respected cultural observers, What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker is a hilarious and honest debut that is both a celebration of the idiosyncrasies and distinctions of Blackness and a critique of white supremacy and how we define masculinity.