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The opening to Carrie Brownstein‘s book.

I‘m reading parts as well as listening because the writing is so good. (I need to go back and read parts.)

THIS OPENER!

I want to listen to this one. I need a good audiobook. And Carrie reads it! 🙌🙌🙌

BUT, her writing is amazing. Visceral and powerful.

I think I‘m going to have to listen, then go back and read. Good thing both are from the library. 😊

In those years I was in awe of the bravery I saw around me. I never quite felt brave myself then, but I watched a lot of fearless things happen. I could play at bravery in the songs, I could play sexiness or humor, long before I could actually be or embody any of those things... But they formed a big part and a foundation for a lot of girls who had been undone by invisibility, including myself.

I don‘t know anything about Sleater-Kinney, but Carrie Brownstein seems really cool, and I want to hang out with her.

This one has been sitting on my to-read list since it was picked for “Our Shared Shelf” maybe a year ago...maybe two...😬. I really need to make an effort to read all of the books Watson‘s group picks, because although I didn‘t know much about the group or artist before, I still enjoyed this memoir.

So one down for my #OurSharedShelf reads and one for #Nonfiction2019

gay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!💗💗💗💗💗

After seeing Sleater-Kinney twice in a week, I figured it was finally time to finish Carrie's book. I've no excuse for not having done so already, except I was inordinately annoyed with myself for missing her appearance when it first came out that I took it out on the book. Anyway, am very much enjoying it.

I read Carrie‘s memoir a few years ago. It was fun to see her and Sleater-Kinney year it up in St. Paul tonight! 🎸

So interesting! Depicts a world I don‘t know much about: making music, touring, rockstar-ing. A quick listen, highly recommend on audio. Carrie Brownstein is a gifted and beautiful writer.

New #audiobook 😄 I love audiobooks read by the author!

The writing was spectacular. Carrie writes about searching for home and belonging in a way that sung to my soul. I didn‘t care much for the biography parts, mostly because I‘m not at all familiar with Sleater-Kinney or Portlandia, so I didn‘t have that investment or interest going in. But I love stories of self-discovery and women following their dreams so this get ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️. #booked2019 #spring #featuresamusician

Celebrities often focus squarely on their private life in memoirs. Brownstein does discuss her early life and family, but it's nice to hear an artist devote attention to the story behind the art itself. Brownstein describes her passion for Sleater Kinney and why she stuck with them through sexist media coverage, grueling tours, tensions within the group, and health problems. Very inspirational- made me want to cheer like it was one of their songs.

I‘ve never listened to Sleater-Kinney. I‘ve never watched Portlandia. I bought this memoir SOLELY for the title. 🤷🏼‍♀️ What books have you bought just because you loved the title?

Library book sale haul for $4. I have been running on fumes lately but I had to run out to the spring sale after work one night. It‘s one of my favorite things ever. I‘ve read Station Eleven but gave my copy away. I need a new one for rereading. So excited I found a copy of LaRose.

#HungryHeart #MarchIntothe70s
Have been a little stumped on these lately, including today's. And meanwhile, I'm in an audiobook desert where I'm weeks away from my next audio hold. Listening to the last @ReadingEnvy episode solved both problems when @Bianca reminded me I've waited far too long to read a book about one of my favorite bands of all-time. And somehow it was available wait-free on Overdrive- which never happens! @Lizpixie @Cinfhen

Finished this just now and absolutely loved listening to her read it. Do recommend. The interview afterwards is cool too.

#music #sleaterkinney

Current audiobook. I was a huge Sleater-Kinney fan back in the day so I bought the hard copy the second it came out.

BUT... I keep buying memoirs and then forgoing the books in order to hear the author actually read it in the library audiobook version, lol. Ah well, I guess it‘s supporting the book industry, if not my bank account.

#memoir #music

This here was like she was privy to my teenage years though I‘m older

#Sympathy #NoFemmeber I was 12 in 1994 when Sleater Kinney formed, right when I started listening to my own music. Unfortunately, it was almost exclusively male-fronted, big-label alt-rock bands, so it would take me 16 years to discover them. Now I consider them one of my favorite bands (though I still need to read the tagged Carrie Brownstein memoir). This song was written about Corin Tucker's experience giving birth to her son, born premature👇

Although I'm sorry to say goodbye to Halloween in a few hours, I am very excited that #NoFemmeber starts tomorrow!!
I'm co-hosting the challenge with @Cinfhen and am going to try to mix in a few facts about the female artist behind each song and hope that you discover something new, along with some favorites who are still making music and awesome as ever. Hope you'll play along and enjoy the playlist of the same name on Spotify! 🎶🤘😆🤣😆🤣🤘🎶

I thought we could kick things off with one of my favorites that I have been revisiting. If you are looking for an empowering, queer memoir this is the book for you!
Roses: This book is beautiful written with passages that will make you feel. I mean you may put down the book because something hits you that hard. The narrative is unapologetic and wise. There is no forced arc as there are in many memoirs.
A great read

Carrie Brownstein writes so beautifully. She brings not only a lyricism to her writing, but a real sense of self-awareness and honesty that I greatly appreciated. I can imagine it‘s difficult to reflect on the formative years and moments of your life in such a raw and authentic way.
As a Portlander, I particularly loved her descriptions of places I love and felt very connected to her experiences.

But also, allergies? Hives? These are not the afflictions of rock bands or guitarists. “Hives” doesn‘t really have the same ring to it as, say, “heroin,” and it falls far short of legendary potential.

Portland has a nurturing quality, a placidity. For better or worse, it‘s a perennial but shyly hopeful city; if we had a gesture it would be a shrug.

“I want a day not made for you to see”

Talking about the band Heavens to Betsy:
“They were like really loud librarians.”

As a fan of Sleater-Kinney and a proud Portlander, I am so excited to read this.
There‘s also something about this cover that really pulls me in

? Kids setting the neighborhood on fire make me nervous. ?
? Sated shake or, Satan, as we call it. Tastes like chocolate milk from an old school cafeteria.
? Life Scorched Boredom
? 7" Amazon Fire cover is persimmon orange.
? 5'9" or 5'10" depending on who's measuring.

@MinDea #humpdaypost

I started this this morning. Homegirl has vocabulary skills, I already had to look up 2 words lol they were too big for my Monday morning driving-to-work brain. Anyway. I'm so excited for this.

Not book related but look at what arrived for me today! My ladies who rock vinyl collection is coming along very nicely if I do say so myself

This one is too fun to miss. 😃

1. Love the tagged book
2. Ryan Adams,Butch Walker, Neko Case, Jack White, Killers
3. Butch Walker @ House is Blues in Chicago
4. Sweet Illusions by Ryan Adams ❤️

#ManicMonday

Our collection of #famous women is coming along!

#readingresolutions @Jess7

1. Purple-ish pic I snapped at a Sleater-Kinney show feat. Carrie Brownstein (of Portlandia and author of Hunger Makes Me A Modern Girl which I read a few months ago)
2. I love fruit. Give me pies, give me sweet little pies.
3. I‘m not a jewelry person... but I wear glasses everyday!
4. I work in an office and get away with jeans and a T-shirt.
5. I‘m mostly done. I need to finish state and hit send!
Happy Wednesday! #humpdaypost @MinDea

#quotsy #litsyquotechallenge #quotsymarch18 #hunger

I finally bailed on this one today, when I started Margo Jefferson's. Carrie Brownstein is so racist, so full of internalized misogyny, so oblivious, and so just plain insufferable and annoying that this book soured me on Sleater-Kinney. What you see of Brownstein on shitsack "Portlandia" is apparently what you get.

I should clean and do my taxes and do any number of little things, but after a grueling week of grad school, work, and roller derby, all I want to do is stay in bed and read.

As someone who grew up in the PNW and loved Sleater-Kinney as an adolescent, this book was everything to me. I was just a few years too young for the whole riot grrrl movement, as much as that pains me, but I was definitely aware of the majority of the bands referenced and caught up to them shortly after they left the scene. It was great to get a sort of behind the scenes of the movement and of SK. Hearing Carrie read it was all the better.

“Nostalgia is recall without the criticism of the present day” 😍 #hungermakesmeamoderngirl #carriebrownstein #sleaterkinney #riotgrrrl #audiobook

I listened to this and it was, for me, surprisingly entertaining and moving. I love Carrie, but have never really listened to Sleater-Kinney and I know basically nothing about that genre of music. I‘d recommend even to people like me!

Carrie Brownstein is good at so many things: playing music, being funny, and writing about her life in an interesting and relatable way. She also manages to avoid the “fake humility” trap so many memoirists fall into when writing their stories.

Wow, what a great read! Even if you don't know who Carrie is or her music, this is an extremely well written account of overcoming anxiety and negative experiences, navigating counter cultures, trying to fit in, reconciling your internal image of yourself with what is portrayed to the world. #feminism #punkrock #biography

Sleater-Kinney is one of my favorite bands so I really enjoyed listening to this memoir by Carrie Brownstein, singer/songwriter/guitarist. It chronicles her early life & introduction into the punk scene of the 90s Pacific Northwest, of course the formation of the band & its highs and lows. I really liked how the audio was interspersed with songs, & there‘s even a bonus interview at the end.

Today is all about music for #nonficnov. I loved the Cass bio and cannot wait to read the Brownstein memoir someday!

If you are looking for Portlandia you won't find it here .This memoir,read by the author , was more than I expected.Her parents both with their own issues weren't much help in raising her , but this is not told in a "poor me" way .She is honest and bold much like her band ,Sleater -Kinney.What it means to be a "woman "artist,being curious,intelligent and persistent also makes Carrie Brownstein a modern girl.Rough and worth it,loved it.

"We were never trying to deny our femaleness. Instead, we wanted to expand the notion of what it means to be female. The notion of “female” should be so sprawling and complex that it becomes divorced from gender itself. We were considered a female band before we became merely a band; I was a femband ale guitarist and Janet was a female drummer for years before we were simply considered a guitarist and a drummer."
~C.B.
#books #feminism #bookish

#booksacrossoceans #sixwordSaturday
Carrie Brownstein's memoir is on my 2018 TBR pile. I went to the farmers market today. I bought a bunch of red and purple fruits and vegetables. I also bought a strawberry rhubarb pie. I've never eaten rhubarb before.

Pool side reads while the baby naps and the toddler swims with grandma. #summerreads #pooltime #library #musicmemoirs