Tuesday, December 23, 2014

Review: Dates From Hell


Dates From Hell
Dates From Hell by Kim Harrison

My rating: 3 of 5 stars



I read the Claire Switch Project and it was rather meh. I'll return to read the others at some point but I'm in no rush.

Undead In The Garden of Good and Evil was much better, but since that was my first taste of Kim Harrison; it was also confusing. Living vampires vs. undead vampires? I've no idea what's going on in this world, but I'm curious to read further now. Bit too much sex, though. Reminded me of the Anita Blake I read.

Chaotic by Kelley Armstrong was my favourite. The world sounds fun and both of the characters are appealing. Plus, the author's Canadian and I always mean to read more Canadian authors.

Dead Man Dating was the only story by an author I hadn't heard of and was the second best of the bunch.



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Review: The Fault in Our Stars


The Fault in Our Stars
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green

My rating: 4 of 5 stars



"Neither novels nor their readers benefit from attempts to divine whether any facts hide inside a story. Such efforts attack the very idea that made-up stories can matter, which is sort of the foundational assumption of our species "

And so starts off a very book-driven story, which I hadn't been expecting. Characters bond over books, talking about how exciting it is to live in an infinite fiction. I was also surprised by how funny the book is. The line "Your driving is unpleasant, but it isn't technically unsafe" made me actually laugh out loud.

I loved the father's take on the meaning of life:

"That's what I believe. I believe the universe wants to be noticed. I think the universe is improbably biased towards consciousness, that it rewards intelligence in part because the universe enjoys its elegance being observed."

If the bookishness and humour of the book surprised me, it wasn't as much as the fact that it made me cry. I could blame the breastfeeding hormones, but there were tears. And not about anything I might have expected going in. There was a line about her mother saying when she almost died that she wouldn't be a mother anymore and it just hit right at my heart. And then that turned out to be a key issue to be resolved at the end. Hard thing to read while nursing and cuddling an infant.

I read this in the course of a day for an in-person book club. The plot struck me as rather silly at times (the whole trip to Amsterdam) or obvious (Gus's health) but the humour won me over.



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Thursday, December 11, 2014

Review: Don't Eat Cat


Don't Eat Cat
Don't Eat Cat by Jess Walter

My rating: 4 of 5 stars



Hilarious short story that packs a few good dystopia punches too.



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Review: The Works of Edgar Allen Poe Volume 2


The Works of Edgar Allen Poe Volume 2
The Works of Edgar Allen Poe Volume 2 by Edgar Allan Poe

My rating: 3 of 5 stars



I think I've now read Poe's most famous stories, which is interesting since I've got vol.s 1, 3 and 4 to go. A few of the stories were really similar to each other - for example The Tell-Tale Heart and the one earlier in the collection where the character does almost exactly the same thing at the end. I do like how he has this long lead up to what's going on because in the good stories, this adds to the suspense. In the ones I liked less though it was really tedious.

Let's blame the baby for the fact that this was meant to be read in October, as my plan was to read a volume each year. Didn't expect it to take until December! Oops.



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Thursday, November 27, 2014

Review: The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas


The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula K. Le Guin

My rating: 5 of 5 stars



This is a powerful read for Thanksgiving day. First off, it is so true in our present society that so much of our happy lives is based on the suffering of others. Capitalism has resulted in some horrible situations around the world. It's also a powerful read with everything going on in Ferguson right now. The description of the young people's outrage at injustice being dissipated because of a concern instead for their own happiness struck me as similar to how children learn to look away from racism and unfairness as they age.



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Monday, November 24, 2014

Review: A Book of Nonsense


A Book of Nonsense
A Book of Nonsense by Edward Lear

My rating: 2 of 5 stars



Finished this ages ago and apparently forgot to review it. It was alright - amusing.



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Tuesday, September 30, 2014

Review: The Wolf: A Novel


The Wolf: A Novel
The Wolf: A Novel by Lorenzo Carcaterra

My rating: 3 of 5 stars



The mafia take on terrorism. Entertaining. Ridiculously silly but a pleasant distraction.

I took a long time to read this, but it was entirely circumstances. I started this the night I went to a lactation class. The next day I was induced and the baby took over my life. Then I picked it up one night while Kait was cluster feeding. Finished it by the time it was light, nursing the entire time.



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Tuesday, September 02, 2014

Review: A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution: 1891-1924


A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution: 1891-1924
A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution: 1891-1924 by Orlando Figes

My rating: 5 of 5 stars



I started reading this book 13 months ago. The oddest series of things have kept me from finishing it until now. At first, I bought it thinking I'd read it and send it to my father last Christmas. I started it on my week of summer vacation - only to be sidetracked when the plumbing in our apartment died and we had to move with virtually no notice. I picked it back up leading up to Christmas. Sure, it would be a bit late, I thought, but I was working 12 hour days with these nice long lunches and I thought I'd read it in the coffee shop next to work. I tried, but every time I'd finish my meal and the biggest coffee they had and I'd still fall asleep on top of the book. I was thinking I'd gotten old - it wasn't the book after all. I loved the book - history that read like fiction almost, it was so engrossing. Turns out, of course, that I was pregnant and that was the cause of the constant napping. Then I thought I'd send it to Dad for his birthday, so I had to finish it by June. I took it with me on the plane when I moved from Seoul to Colorado and it just sat there. No job, and yet I didn't read it. But a rough pregnancy left me with zero concentration - I didn't even like having to sit through an entire movie, much less plow through hundreds of pages of revolution. Turns out, all I needed to do to finally finish this book off was start breastfeeding. I've been reading it out loud to Kaitlin while she eats, and she's a slow eater.

It's a fantastic book. I learned a great deal. And possibly I've started educating a new little socialist.



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Thursday, July 24, 2014

Review: Ricochet: Two Women War Reporters and a Friendship Under Fire


Ricochet: Two Women War Reporters and a Friendship Under Fire
Ricochet: Two Women War Reporters and a Friendship Under Fire by Mary Jo McConahay

My rating: 5 of 5 stars



Fantastic. Not just an examination of the lives of a reporter and photographer reporting on the war in El Salvador, but also an examination of friendship and the changes that can rock the foundations of friendship. Well-written and fascinating.



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Review: Medic Against Bomb: A Doctor's Poetry of War


Medic Against Bomb: A Doctor's Poetry of War
Medic Against Bomb: A Doctor's Poetry of War by Frederick Foote

My rating: 3 of 5 stars



Some of these poems really moved me, some really confused me. I suppose that's unsurprising, as I'm not much of a poetry reader. Overall, it was interesting but I think I prefer poetic prose to poetry itself.



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Wednesday, July 23, 2014

Review: Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir


Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir
Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir by Jenny Lawson

My rating: 4 of 5 stars



I don't think I could have picked a better book with everything that's going on if I tried. It's not just that with the gestational diabetes and the needles and the stress that I needed a good laugh, but that it turns out there's a chapter in this book all about Jenny Lawson having to give herself needles in the belly while she was pregnant. I'd never met anyone who'd had to do this, or even heard about it and it was reassuring to learn that I'm not the only one to be freaked out at the possibility of hitting the baby with the needle.

Plus, as I told Wyatt, it's funnier than small pox.



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Tuesday, July 22, 2014

Review: The Speckled Monster


The Speckled Monster
The Speckled Monster by Jennifer Lee Carrell

My rating: 5 of 5 stars



This book was so damn good. Granted, I LOVE stuff like this. They should make all the anti-vaxers read it, really, so they understand what exactly is at stake when one chooses not to vaccinate. It's such an easy read too, with endnotes that explain where the author filled in the details and extrapolated from what is known.



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Thursday, July 10, 2014

Review: War of the Gods


War of the Gods
War of the Gods by Justine Borrego

My rating: 1 of 5 stars



So, that wasn't very good at all. Nothing really ever happens in this book. I'm an adult and I'm not sure I really get how the kid beat Zeus and Jupiter at the end. Too much telling, not enough showing. Too much travelling across the sea, not enough actual action. And it's not like there was character development instead of plot either.



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Wednesday, July 09, 2014

Review: Ophelia and the Marvelous Boy


Ophelia and the Marvelous Boy
Ophelia and the Marvelous Boy by Karen Foxlee

My rating: 5 of 5 stars



So freaking good. So good, in fact, I put it on the baby registry, because I kept picturing myself someday reading it to Kaitlin. It's a lovely modern fairy tale about a very scientific-minded girl who ends up having to believe in magic in order to save the world, and at the same time, her family. Charming.



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Review: Lilly Babysits Her Brother


Lilly Babysits Her Brother
Lilly Babysits Her Brother by Brenda Bellingham

My rating: 2 of 5 stars



Meh. If I had a child who had a severe allergy, or a sibling with one, I might buy this for them. But in general, I found it too lesson-based and not interesting enough narrative-wise.



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Review: Phoebe's Way


Phoebe's Way
Phoebe's Way by Pamela Ditchoff

My rating: 3 of 5 stars



For the first part of the book, I was super annoyed by the dog narration. Particularly the repetitive way each chapter started. About halfway through though, I became interested enough in the individual histories to not mind at all.



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Review: Transgender Lives: Complex Stories, Complex Voices


Transgender Lives: Complex Stories, Complex Voices
Transgender Lives: Complex Stories, Complex Voices by Kirstin Cronn-Mills

My rating: 3 of 5 stars



This was a good introduction to transgender issues. It alternated chapters of people's lived experiences with chapters on issues. I found the latter to be a bit on the basic side but I enjoyed reading the people's stories.



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Thursday, July 03, 2014

Review: The F- It List


The F- It List
The F- It List by Julie Halpern

My rating: 0 of 5 stars



I like it when teenagers in novels remind me of students I've taught. These teens masturbate, smoke, swear, and have sex. The plot line was occasionally a bit much - that's a lot of death and illness surrounding one teenager - but overall, I found it interesting and moving.



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Wednesday, July 02, 2014

Review: Honey Bee's Adventures at Wilderness Pond


Honey Bee's Adventures at Wilderness Pond
Honey Bee's Adventures at Wilderness Pond by Cathryn Carman Davis

My rating: 3 of 5 stars



I really liked the language and the rhyming, but felt like the storyline needed a bit more.



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Review: The Little Moose Who Couldn't Go to Sleep


The Little Moose Who Couldn't Go to Sleep
The Little Moose Who Couldn't Go to Sleep by Willy Claflin

My rating: 3 of 5 stars



I really liked the story line and the illustration. Wasn't very keen on the attempt to dialect the language.



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Monday, June 30, 2014

Review: Captain Courage and the World's Most Shocking Secret Book 2


Captain Courage and the World's Most Shocking Secret Book 2
Captain Courage and the World's Most Shocking Secret Book 2 by Stacey a Marshall

My rating: 2 of 5 stars



Children's stories tend to have two main elements - to entertain and to teach. I thought this one was too much in the direction of teaching the lesson, without enough entertaining. Granted, I didn't read this one with a child, so perhaps they'd be more amused by it than I was. Still, I really enjoy children's literature and this one didn't do much for me. Just as the Goodreads rating suggests, this one was just ok.



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Review: The Deja Vu Experiment


The Deja Vu Experiment
The Deja Vu Experiment by J.G. Renato

My rating: 2 of 5 stars



Wait, what? WTF did I just read? First off, Diana is the most impressive sounding waitress from Iowa who ever existed. Who knew waitresses from Iowa had all the answers to how to live your life? Secondly, is this New Age mumbo-jumbo wrapped in science or...? Yeah, that wasn't what I was expecting, in the least. And I'm probably the worst possible reader for it, seeing as spirituality is really not my thing.



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Sunday, June 29, 2014

Review: Let's Tell This Story Properly


Let's Tell This Story Properly
Let's Tell This Story Properly by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi

My rating: 4 of 5 stars



Winner of the 2014 Commonwealth Short Story Prize, this short story tells the tale of Nnam, whose husband was hiding a second family in Uganda.



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Review: The Foot Soldier, a novella


The Foot Soldier, a novella
The Foot Soldier, a novella by Mark Rubinstein

My rating: 4 of 5 stars



I got this for free from Netgalley. It was a well written novella about Vietnam. I enjoyed how the ending and the title come together.



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Review: Diary of a Wimpy Kid


Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney

My rating: 3 of 5 stars



I didn't expect the kid to be such an asshole. I wish I'd read this with some students, because I'm curious about how they'd respond to him - would they see that he's quite a bully, while himself worrying about being bullied?



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Saturday, June 28, 2014

Review: The Story of the Red Cross


The Story of the Red Cross
The Story of the Red Cross by Krishna Satyanand

My rating: 3 of 5 stars



Sometimes I download random books - I'm not even sure where this came from or why. Now that I'm choosing my next book at random (Wyatt picks a page, I read the shortest book on my Kindle list on that page), it's getting, well, interesting.

This is clearly a children's book, but I won't lie, I learned things from it. I'm going to poke around and see if I can find Dunant's A Memory of Solferino, because I think that would be quite an interesting read.



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Review: Dirty Cop


Dirty Cop
Dirty Cop by Kyle Adams

My rating: 3 of 5 stars



This was an amazon freebie. I get an email that alerts me to deals and based on whatever the blurb was, I downloaded this. Turns out it's MM erotica -not what I was expecting, but it was a decently written short story.



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Friday, June 27, 2014

Review: Where There's Smoke


Where There's Smoke
Where There's Smoke by Jodi Picoult

My rating: 2 of 5 stars



That was quick and fun, though I wouldn't normally be all that interested in psychics.



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Review: Swift as Desire


Swift as Desire
Swift as Desire by Laura Esquivel

My rating: 4 of 5 stars



I really enjoyed this..an interesting look at Mexico and a sweet love story.



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Saturday, June 21, 2014

Review: The Vampyre: A Tale


The Vampyre: A Tale
The Vampyre: A Tale by John William Polidori

My rating: 4 of 5 stars



Now that was fun. Also short, which is what I'm going for right now. Pregnancy seems to have left me with little reading focus - or focus of any kind, actually. Right now I pick a number at random, go to that page on my Kindle list of books and read the shortest thing on the page.



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Tuesday, June 17, 2014

Review: Fairy Tales from the Arabian Nights


Fairy Tales from the Arabian Nights
Fairy Tales from the Arabian Nights by Anonymous

My rating: 4 of 5 stars



The tales were fantastic and aside from Sinbad, I'd never even heard of any of them. I'll have to read the rest one day.



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Monday, June 09, 2014

Review: A Fatal Grace


A Fatal Grace
A Fatal Grace by Louise Penny

My rating: 4 of 5 stars



Loved it. The characters of Three Pines are so much fun, as are all of the detectives. It feels like the kind of town I'd like to live in, in spite of my general dislike of small towns. The mystery was fun, in that there were parts I guessed well in advance, but the over all answers escaped me. It was slightly odd to read such a winter book in the summer though.



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Review: Menace


Menace
Menace by Gary Fry

My rating: 3 of 5 stars



I clicked on this randomly while scrolling through my Kindle book list. I really quite enjoyed it, although I found the ending disappointed. The suspense had built up quite nicely, only to hit an anti-climatic end.



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Saturday, May 03, 2014

Review: The Magiker


The Magiker
The Magiker by Charles Dennis

My rating: 4 of 5 stars



I really liked this - found the plot and characters interesting and enjoyed trying to figure out how it was all going to go horribly wrong.



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Saturday, April 26, 2014

Review: Kilingiri


Kilingiri
Kilingiri by Janna Gray

My rating: 2 of 5 stars



It's hard to express what I didn't like about this book, exactly, except that it felt like the narrative just went from tragedy to tragedy without enough emotional impact of each. It has what I call Party of Five syndrome - too many bad things happening to one family making the whole unbelievable. I did enjoy all the exotic settings.



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Friday, April 25, 2014

Review: The Grrrl of Limberlost


The Grrrl of Limberlost
The Grrrl of Limberlost by Annie Pearson

My rating: 3 of 5 stars



This was okay. It took me something like a third of the book to really see what was going on - if I didn't have such long stretches of reading time right now and an anal need to finish all books started, I might have given up. But I did come to be interested enough in the main characters to enjoy the rest of the book.



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Tuesday, April 08, 2014

Review: The Boy in the Suitcase


The Boy in the Suitcase
The Boy in the Suitcase by Lene Kaaberbøl

My rating: 4 of 5 stars



I accidentally clicked on this on my Kindle while looking for something else, but it drew me in immediately. First, because the switching between the various characters without much information put me right into the story before I knew what was what and secondly, because I found the main character, Nina, intriguing. I hadn't realized it was the first in a series, but I look forward to the next one, especially since I read this one in half a day, between spurts of napping. This baby growing is tiring.



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Review: The White Dragon


The White Dragon
The White Dragon by Anne McCaffrey

My rating: 4 of 5 stars



Reread - April 2014 - I had forgotten how much I love this book in particular. It shifts the series significantly in a new direction and Jaxom is one of my favourite characters.



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Review: Dragonquest


Dragonquest
Dragonquest by Anne McCaffrey

My rating: 4 of 5 stars



Reread - April 2014



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Review: Dragonflight


Dragonflight
Dragonflight by Anne McCaffrey

My rating: 4 of 5 stars



Reread - April 2014 - Clearly I haven't reread this part of the series as often as the Harper Hall ones because I wasn't quite as good at predicting what would be in the next chapter. Which I'm guessing is because it's a longer book, because I like Lessa just as much as Menolly.



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Saturday, March 29, 2014

Review: Dragonsinger


Dragonsinger
Dragonsinger by Anne McCaffrey

My rating: 4 of 5 stars



reread - March 2014: It seems that pregnancy doesn't just bring on food cravings - seeing these books on Samantha's selves has made me want to reread the entire Pern series, for at least the 10th time.



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Review: Dragondrums


Dragondrums
Dragondrums by Anne McCaffrey

My rating: 4 of 5 stars



reread - March 2014: It seems that pregnancy doesn't just bring on food cravings - seeing these books on Samantha's selves has made me want to reread the entire Pern series, for at least the 10th time.



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Review: Dragonsong


Dragonsong
Dragonsong by Anne McCaffrey

My rating: 4 of 5 stars



reread - March 2014: It seems that pregnancy doesn't just bring on food cravings - seeing these books on Samantha's selves has made me want to reread the entire Pern series, for at least the 10th time.



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Friday, November 29, 2013

Review: Off-Topic: The Story of an Internet Revolt


Off-Topic: The Story of an Internet Revolt
Off-Topic: The Story of an Internet Revolt by G.R. Reader

My rating: 4 of 5 stars



While I was reading this I was also teaching a unit on Cyberbullying to my new middle school students. Which was one of those interesting coincidences.

I'd read a few of the parts of this before. Overall, it was an informative read. I found parts of it amusing, parts disturbing, parts a bit of an overreaction. But then, I've got no horse in this race - I don't really care to mark books as no-because-of-author and I've only vaguely followed all the drama as it's gone on around me.



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Sunday, November 24, 2013

Review: 419


419
419 by Will Ferguson

My rating: 3 of 5 stars



This took me a long time to read. It's more like a 3.5 star read.

I would have had really high expectations for this, as it won an award over Ru, a book I read and adored. But then a group of people read it just before me and reading their comments lowered my expectations a lot and I think that helped. It was a good book - interesting, about topics I'm interested in, incredibly moving at times. But, the way the book was structured didn't work for me at all - there was a whole bit at the beginning with super short chapters that just didn't make any sense yet and then at one point the story shifted and was only about one character for too long at a time. A better balance of when he told each character's story would have strengthened the book for me. I also thought the sentences, especially the dialogue, were a bit clunky at times.

Hopefully I'll come back and update this after I have a chance to look at what I highlighted on my Kindle.



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Thursday, November 14, 2013

Review: Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth


Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth
Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth by Reza Aslan

My rating: 4 of 5 stars



Usually when I bemoan the lack of exciting sci-fi options in real life, I'm thinking along the lines of the hover cars from The Jetsons, but this book made me wish that there was some way to be a fly on the wall of someone else's brain. What would it be like to read this as a Christian? A Jew? A Muslim?

This atheist quite liked the book. The only real problem I had with it is more with myself - I have no idea how to evaluate the possible validity of the claims he makes, though the notes certainly suggested he's well-read (and I have a huge Kindle complaint - why not link endnotes to the end of the chapter they relate to? It'd be super easy and I'd rather read them then.)

It took me a while to plow through this, but not because I wasn't enjoying it, though it didn't compel me to pick it up right.damn.now.



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Tuesday, November 05, 2013

Review: Stoner


Stoner
Stoner by John Edward Williams

My rating: 5 of 5 stars



Stoner was fascinating. I'm startled that I loved something so much that six months ago I'd not so much as heard of.

I loved the first third of the novel - it was so quiet and contemplative. I found the characters easy to empathize with. I thought the exploration of the urbanization of America illustrated well in Stoner. The marital and university conflicts were interesting, especially that the reader was left to try and guess what made Edith do the things she does and how Stoner can't see that Lomax sees himself in Walker and that drives part of his fury.

Stoner's relationship with his daughter was tragic. That he wouldn't fight his wife over the happiness of his child struck me as incredibly sad.

The ending is quite a punch to the gut.



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Thursday, October 31, 2013

Review: The Testament of Mary


The Testament of Mary
The Testament of Mary by Colm Tóibín

My rating: 3 of 5 stars



The idea here is awesome, execution not so much. I was just starting to get into this version of Mary when the story was over. I'd have liked a whole lot more.



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Wednesday, October 30, 2013

Hash Songs - The Basics

The Basics

Blessing the Hares
Bless these hares,
Bless this trail,
Copus no catch us,
Ajoshi no shoot us,
Dogus no bite us,
Shiggy please shag us,
Coitus no-interuptus,
Etc.

The Hairs ("The Mayor of Bayswater") 
And the hairs... (and the hares) 
And the hairs... (and the hares) 
And the hairs of her dickey di-do hung down to her knees..... 
One black one, one white one, and one with a little shite on, 
And one with a little light on, to show us the way. 

She's not a great looker, but everyone took 'er 
You'd need a coal miner to find her vagina 
If she were my daughter I'd have them cut shorter 
She lived by the waterfront, with the waves lapping up and down her cunt 
She married an Italian, who was hung like a fucking stallion 
She divorced the Italian and married that stallion
I folded her lips back, and there found a six-pack 
I drank down that six-pack and put all the empties back
It always was hit-or-miss, could I find her clitoris 
I reached into her thing, and there found my class ring 
I flicked it, I licked it, I even drop kicked it 
She says that she's not a whore, but she bangs like a shithouse door 
The aroma it lingers, it smells like fish fingers 
She stayed in Seattle, and went down on cattle 
It'd take a brontosaurus to eat her clitoris 


S-H-I-T-T-Y T-R-A-I-L
Shitty trail (It sucked!),
Shitty trail (It really sucked!),
The motherfuckers laid a shitty trail.
I would rather ______ than run that shitty trail.

Virgins!
We have virgins, we have virgins,
At our hash! At our hash!
Gonna get them fucked up, 
Gonna get them fucked up,
Up the ass!
Up the ass!
 
Bye Bye Cherry
Back your ass against the wall,
Here I come, balls and all,
Bye, bye cherry.
 
Won't your mother be disgusted,
When she sees your cherry busted,
Bye, bye cherry.
 
Wrap your legs around a little tighter,
Can't you see my load is getting lighter,
So! Shake that ass and wiggle your tits,
Until my little pecker spits,
Cherry, bye bye.

Lips / Face / Head
Lips? Who said lips? I’ll take some of that – on my zipper/clitoris!
Face? Who said face? She can sit on my anytime, and the line starts here.
Head? Who said head? I’ll take some of that. And I did. And it was good.
And there was MUCH rejoicing. And then we fucked.
We fucked for hours, uprooting trees and shrubs and flowers and shit.
Like Vikings, with horns on our heads. ARRRR.
And then she licked my asshole.
It wasn’t fun, it wasn’t funny, it was AWESOME.
So I’m taking my wife, my dog and my football and I’m going home.
So fuck you, you fucking fucks.

You Are My Hash Shit
You are my hash shit, the Osan hash shit
For being stupid on trail today,
I have to hold it, until I pass it,
Will someone please take my hashshit away.
Drink it down, down, down, down...

FUCK OFF, YOU WANK 
Fuck off, you wank, fuck off, you wank,
Fuck off, you wank, fuck off.
Fuck off, you wank, fuck off, you wank,
Fuck off, you wank, fuck off.

Hashy Birthday
Hashy birthday, fuck you,
Hashy birthday, fuck you,
Hashy birthday, you asshole,
Hashy birthday, fuck you.
And may you whore…

Hash Songs - Short

Short Songs

Ou Est Le Papier?
A Frenchman went to the lavatory,
To have a jolly good shit. 
He took his pants and trousers down,
So that he could revel in it.
But when he reached for the paper,
He found that someone had been there before ...
Ou est le papier?
Ou est le papier?
Monsieur, monsieur,
Je fait manure.
Ou est le papier?

All Australians ...
 All Australians are born illegitimate, born illegitimate, born illegitimate
All Australians are born illegitimate, bastards through and through.

They aint got no birth certificate, birth certificate, birth certificate...

Father’s Day is a really sad holiday, really sad holiday, really sad holiday...

They don’t know just who their fathers are, who their fathers are, who their fathers are...

All Canadians wish they were Americans, wish they were Americans, wish they were Americans...

All Americans don't know geography, don't know geography, don't know geography...

Build a Bonfire
Build a bonfire, build a bonfire,
Put the Aussies on the top,
Put the Kiwis in the middle
And burn the bloody lot.
Do Re Mi

Dough, the stuff that buys me beer
Ray, the guy who serves me beer
Me, the guy who drinks the beer
Far, a long long way for beer
So, I'll have another beer
La, la la la la la beer
Tea, no thanks I'm drinking beer
Which brings us back to
Down, down, down down
Little Brown Mouse
Oh, the liquor was spilled on the barroom floor
And the bar was closed for the night
When out of his hole crept a little brown mouse
And he sat in the pale moonlight
 He lapped up the liquor on the barroom floor
And back on his haunches he sat
And all night long you could hear him roar
"BRING ON THE GODDAM CAT!!!"
 Well the cat came out and they had a little spat,
And the cat ate up on the mouse.
And the moral of the story isssssssssss
You can't drink liquor on the house!
With a mouse!
 Drink it down down down down...
Beer Run
B-double E double R U-N beer run
B-double E double R U-N beer run
 all we need is a ten and five-er,
a car and key and a sober driver.
 B-double E double R U-N beer run.

FINGER IN YOUR BEER
How would, you like, my finger in your ear?
How would, you like, my finger in your ear?
Not fucking likely! Not fucking likely! Not fucking likely!
 
How would, you like, my finger in your rear?
How would, you like, my finger in your rear?
Not fucking likely! Not fucking likely! Not fucking likely!
 
How would, you like, my finger in your beer?
How would, you like, my finger in your beer?
Not fucking likely! Not fucking likely! Not fucking likely!
GLORIOUS, VICTORIOUS
Beer, beer, beer, beer
Beer, beer, beer, beer
Drunk last night,
Drunk the night before,
Gonna get drunk tonight,
Like I've never been drunk before,
Cause when I'm drunk I'm as happy as can be,
Cause we're all part of the Hash House family.
 
Oh the Hash Family
Is the best family
To ever Come over
From Old Germany.
There's the High Hash Drunks
There's the Low Hash Drunks
There's the Asian Drunks
And the other damn drunks.
 CHORUS:
Singing glorius,
Victorious!
Hey!!!
One keg of beer for the four of us.
Singing Glory be to God that there are no more of us,
Cause one of us could drink it all alone
Damn near, pass the beer, to the rear, of the Hash House Harriers!
THE HASH HOUSE HARRIERS 
 Their drinking is compulsive,
Their running is convulsive,
They're morally repulsive-
The Hash House Harriers!
 
Their flatulence is rude an'
Their genitals protrude when
They're running in the nude in
The Hash House Harriers!
 
They're always shiggy-tracking
From constantly bushwhacking.
Intelligence they're lacking.
The Hash House Harriers!
 Duh-duh-duh-duh-down-down
Duh-duh-duh-duh-down-down
Duh-duh-duh-duh
Duh-duh-duh-duh
Duh-duh-duh-duh-down-down!
Someone’s In The Kitchen With Dinah
Dinah, won't you blow me,
Dinah, won't you blow me,
Dinah, won't you blow my horn?
 Dinah, won't you blow me,
Dinah, won't you blow me,
Dinah, won't you blow my horn?
 
Someone's in the kitchen with Dinah,
Someone's in the kitchen, I know,
Someone's in the kitchen with Dinah,
Humpin' like a dynamo.
 (alternate verse)
Someone's in my sister's vagina,
Someone's in my sister, I know,
Someone's in my sister's vagina,
Humpin' like a dynamo.
Rich Young Dumb Nyphomaniac
Well welcome everybody to my place
You can pull up a chair or you can sit on my face
We got everything we need,
the only thing that we lack
is a rich young dumb nymphomaniac
 Chorus
I wanna rich youg dumb nymphomaniac
To drive me around in her cadillac
If she's not down on her knees she will be flat on her back
I wanna rich youg dumb nymphomaniac

 we'll give her great bigtits and a little bitty ass
a fucking machine that never runs out of gas
a body like nobody's ever seen before
and she recently inherited a liquor store
 Chorus
 well she doesn't wanna marry and she doesn't wanna fight
she doesn't give a shit if I stay out all night
If I bring home another woman she just gives me a smile
and we take off all our clothes and then we fuck in a pile
 Chorus
 we'll make her three feet tall
so she stands about here
with a flat spot on her head
so I can rest my beer
 Chorus
Leprosy
Leprosy, all my skin is falling off of me.
I'm not half the man I used to be.
Oh, how did I get leprosy?
 
Syphilis, it all started with a simple kiss.
Now it even hurts to take a piss.
Oh why did I get syphilis?
 
Why her box was sick I don't know, she wouldn't say.
Now my dripping dick won't get thick, now I long for yesterday ....
Boobs-Dee-ah- da (I Love the Hash World)
 I love the HASH World
I love the LONG FALSE TRAILS
I love SHORT-CUTTING
I love LAGERS AND ALES
I love the HASH world
And all its sights and sounds
Boobs-dee-ah- da, boobs-dee-ah- da
Boobs-dee-ah- da, boobs-dee-ah- da
 
I love the SHIGGY
I love to CATCH THE HARES
I love the DOWN DOWNS
I HATE the ANTHARX SCARES
I love the HASH world
And all its craziness
Boobs-dee-ah- da, boobs-dee-ah- da
Boobs-dee-ah- da, boobs-dee-ah- da
 
I love the SINGING
I love the HUMPIN' HASH 
I love the CAMP OUTS ...
WHERE DID I GET THIS RASH?
I love the HASH world
It's such a brilliant thing
Boobs-dee-ah- da, boobs-dee-ah- da
Boobs-dee-ah- da, boobs-dee-ah- da
Boobs-dee-ah- da, boobs-dee-ah- da
Boobs-dee-ah- da, boobs-dee-ah- da
Boobs-dee-ah- da, boobs-dee-ah- da
Boobs-dee-ah- da, boobs-dee-ah- da

Shitonya
 Shitonya, shitonya, shitonya
In Russia it means I adore ya
If I had my way
I’d shit on ya all day
Shitonya, shitonya, shitonya
 
Pissonya, pissonya, pissonya
In Russia it means I love ya
If I had my way
I’d piss on ya all day
Pissonya, pissonya, pissonya
 
Cumonya, cumonya, cumonya
In Russia it means I need ya
If I had my way
I’d cum on ya all day
Cumonya, Shitonya, Pissonya
My One Skin Hangs Down to My Two Skin
My one skin hangs down to my two skin,
My two skin hangs down to my three,
My three skin hangs down to my foreskin
My foreskin hangs down to my knee.
CHORUS:
Roll back, roll back,
Please roll back my foreskin for me, for me.
Roll back, roll back,
Please roll back my foreskin for me.
Rule Britannia
Rule Britannia, marmalade and jam,
Five Chinese crackers up your asshole,
BANG, BANG, BANG, BANG, BANG!

Put Your Leg Over My Shoulder
Put your left leg over my shoulder,
Put your right leg over my shoulder,
(Wag tongue)
La-la-la-la-la, la-la-la, la-la-la.
Put your left tit over my shoulder,
Put your right tit over my shoulder,
(Shake head side to side)
Bla-bla-bla-bla, bla-bla-bla, bla-bla-bla.

Tastes Like Shit
If Your Girlfriend (Boyfriend) tastes like shit, roll her (him) over. 
If Your Girlfriend (Boyfriend) tastes like shit, roll her (him) over. 
If Your Girlfriend (Boyfriend) tastes like shit, then it's probly not her (his) clit (dick). 
If Your Girlfriend (Boyfriend) tastes like shit, roll her (him) over. 
Drink it Down Down Down... 

A Sailor 
There once was a sailor who sat on a ROCK, 
Shaking his fist and abusing his... 
--Neighbouring farmer who was guarding his RICKS, 
Teaching his children to play with their... 
--Kites and their marbles as in days of YORE, 
When along came a woman who looked like a... 
--Decent young lady but walked like a DUCK, 
Said she was learning a new way to... 
--Bring up her children to teach them to KNIT, 
While the lads in the farmyard were shovelling the... 
--Contents of the pigsty, the muck and the MIRE, 
While the lord of the manor was pulling out his... 
--Horses from the stable, preparing for the HUNT, 
While his wife in her boudoir was powdering her... 
--Nose and preparing her vanity BOX, 
Taking precautions to ward off the... 
--Gout and rheumatics for well she recalls... 
What did you think I was going to say? 
Well, you dirty buggers, that’s all for today!

BALLS TO MR. BANGELSTEIN
Balls to Mr. Benglestein, Benglestein, Benglestein
Balls to Mr. Benglestein, that dirty old man
He sits on the steeple and shits on the people
So balls to Mr. Benglestein, that dirty old man
He keeps us all waiting while he’s masturbating
So balls to Mr. Benglestein, that dirty old man
He ups them he downs them he fucking well grounds them
So balls to Mr. Benglestein, that dirty old man

OUR LAGER
Our lager,
Which art in barrels;
Hallowed be thy drink;
Thy will be drunk,
At home as it is in the tavern.
Give us this day our foamy head.
And forgive us our spillages,
As we forgive those who spill against us.
And lead us not into incarceration;
But deliver us from hangovers.
For thine is the Beer,
The Bitter, and the Lager,
Forever and ever.
On-on!

TWENTY TOES
There's a game called twenty toes,
It's played all over town.
The women play with ten toes up,
The men with ten toes down, down, down, down....

Sing a Song of Syphilis
Sing a song of syphilis.
A penis full of pus.
Four and twenty pox scabs,
Waiting to be bust.
And when her legs were opened,
What a sight to see:
Ozzy gray-green matter,
All running with the pee!

Sex Is Boring
Sex is boring, sex is boring,
Pain is fun, pain is fun.
Gonna cut my fingers off, gonna cut my fingers off,
One by one. One by one.

Amazing Beer

A - maz - ing beer,
A taste profound,
A whole keg just for thee!
The pack is lost,
But home you've found,
The beer check you can see.

Does a Hasher?

Does a hasher like to walk,
Does a hasher like to run,
Does a hasher like to be where they're having all the fun?
Can he drink a 12-ounce beer,
While his friends all sing and cheer,
Now your time has come.

My DNA

Young Girl,
I like it when you go down,
I said Young Girl,
Won't you kneel on the ground,
I said Young Girl,
With your lips full and round,
On your knees you make me happy.

(spit, spit, spit, spit, spit)

I want to spray you with My DNA,
I want to spray you with My DNA,
It's a present from me,
a gift to all of the girls
I sure hope you like to wear pearls

Drink it down, down, down . . .

Check Your Balls

Running trail in this fine city,
On-on-on-on-on, on-on, on-on.
See that girl, now ain’t she pretty?
Wood-y-wood-y-wood, wood-wood, wood-wood
She’s just fifteen, don’t dare try it
On the sex offender reg-is-try
Now it’s time for you to drink it,
Down-down-down-down-down, down-down, down-down

Give it a Blow

Oh the weather outside is frightful,
But my cock is so delightful,
And if you really want to see it grow,
Give it a blow, give it a blow, give it a blow.

So drink it down, down, down . . .

Hot Vagina for your breakfast
Hot Vagina for your lunch
Hot vagina for your dinner
its munch, munch, munch, munch munch
It's so tasty and nutritious
Bite size and ready to eaaaaat
Hot Vagina for your breakfast
Hot Vagina can't be beat.