Half a Life (memoir) critical favorite in the UK, "Half a Life" was called "one of the best books I have ever read" by Ali Catterall on The BBC, as well as "precise, elegantly written, fresh, wise, and very sad ... indicative not only of a very talented writer, but of a proper human being” by Nick Hornby "Half a Life" was widely excerpted in venues such as "GQ", "This American Life", United Kingdom papers "The Times" and "Daily Mail". "Half a Life" received the 2011 National Book Critics Circle Award for autobiography. Half a Life (memoir) Half a Life is a book by
A Mouse Divided A Mouse Divided A Mouse Divided is a 1953 "Merrie Melodies" animated short directed by Friz Freleng and featuring Sylvester. The title is a pun on Lincoln's House Divided Speech. The episode starts where a drunken stork delivers a baby to the nearest available home. Sylvester's wife, wanting a baby, despite his objections ("And what thanks do I get? I wish I was dead! Boo hoo hoo! Every day it's the same thing - pitter-patter of little feet!"), graciously receives the package. Sylvester is nonetheless excited- until he learns the baby is a mouse, at which point he tries to