Baker’s Dozen Challenge Book 3

I’ve had this book since college but didn’t get around to reading it until now. I was running out of years to be a 20something so I thought I should read it sooner rather than later. 

There were some real gems in here. Sex and the Sickbed, My Roaring Twenties, In-Between Places, In from the Outside, and Working at Wendy’s were excellent. Unfortunately Rock My Network and Sheer Dominance were a fight to get through. They weren’t worth the paper they were printed on IMHO.

The geography also left something to be desiredAfter about the sixth essay, I got sick of hearing about New York. Growing up in DC, the nation’s capital, you know from birth that New York is not the world but people from everywhere else haven’t gotten the memo on that yet.

Since this collection came out, people have been really hard on millennials and just as many have been coming to our defense. Rather than reiterate what’s already been said, I’d really like to hear another collection of this same concept 10 years later. I’m sure the content would have shifted.

1) Another World –

2) Learned Something –

3) Movie-Book –

4) Graphic Novel – Fanboys vs. Zombies Vol 1 by Sam Humphries

5) Dust –

6) Nonfiction –

7) Reread –

8) Shorts – 20something Essays by 20something Writers edited by Matt Kellogg and Jillian Quint

9) Fiction –

10) Shiny – Dear Mr. Knightley by Katherine Reay

11) Retelling –

12) Wild Card –

13) The End –

Music: We’ll Be Here (When You’re Gone) by The Goo Goo Dolls