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The Lager Queen of Minnesota

UnCovered review by Filomena Scotto DiVetta, ACLS Galloway Branch

I listened to “The Lager Queen of Minnesota” by J. Ryan Stradal on the Libby app that the library provides. It was fun listening to it on my way to and from work. I was so intrigued by the story that I also listened to it around my house!

This book is about two sisters, Edith and Helen, who are raised on a farm in Minnesota. As the years go by they grow apart - each one with their own differences and struggles. Helen is more rigid than her sister Edith, who is always taking care of people in her life. Helen inherits the farm with a plan to make her dream come true of owning a successful brewery. This puts a strain between the sisters who go years without talking. Diana, Edith’s granddaughter, ends up living with her grandmother and develops the same interest for running a brewery as her great-aunt Helen.

This book will make you laugh and cry. You will enjoy getting to read or listen to the characters as they go through life. The author does an amazing job of making the characters unique and different from each other.

Borrow eBooks, eAudiobook, and eMagazines from the ACSL Overdrive digital collection for free with the Libby app. Go to www.atlanticlibrary.org/overdrive to how.

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Yesterday I overheard someone talking about how he was taking classes at the University of Maryland because they offer free tuition if you’re over 60. 

My brain IMMEDIATELY began scripting a screwball comedy in which a broke millennial who desperately want to finish his long-abandoned degree but is drowning in student debt pretends to be a senior citizen in order to attend college for free.

I’m picturing someone Channing Tatumesque, applying age makeup every morning before he heads off to class. It’s sort of a cross between 21 Jump Street and Mrs. Doubtfire. He keeps forgetting which hip is supposed to be his bad one. His classmates laugh every time he uses slang. There’s definitely a scene where he attends a college party and busts it up on the dance floor.

He catches the eye of a fellow returning student, a woman in her 50s, but she thinks he’s like 70 and she’s already buried one husband, you know? She’s not interested in doing that again. When his charade unravels (hilariously) at the end of the movie, though, she finds out he’s actually like 30 and has abs you could bounce a quarter off. And he’s still super into her. And really, maybe it’s time she gave May-December romance a chance.

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I have discovered the truth about chainmail bikinis, and it is imperative those wearing such armor do not think about it too hard or they may inadvertently cross the line between Sexy Hero and Homicidal Pervert.

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Glass of Supervicious Fluid

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“If you don’t come to bed with me, the bed will COME TO YOU!!!”

“Erik, control yourself!”

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it’s way too much fun imagining what inuyasha characters would wear in present day 😩😩

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OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIITTTTTTTTT

Bonus:

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why is this the funniest joke in the world

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i cant stress enough that venom 2 does not have to be good. it simply must contain at least two hours of tom hardy in a hoodie acting like a neurotic little chihuahua

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THE WHAT

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Do you like poems?

yes! my favorites are The Tiger and the unnamed werewolf fridge poem

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A THIEF!

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My love for the Internet has ruined my sense of humor because I’ve been laughing at this meme for the past five minutes.

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my mom bought me a two carrot gold ring

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*puts a picture of a kitten on my resume*

me: i hope that this can persuade you in my favor

me: *winks with both eyes*