So I have been playing Bingo all wrong. I’ve been aiming, and have a plan for, a blackout but I haven’t been paying attention to actually achieving 5 in a row traditional Bingos until now! I haven’t read Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs since before I joined Cannonball Read but I read it a few times in high school and college so it seemed like a good choice for Throwback Thursday. Since I’ve read Burroughs’s memoir numerous times I opted for the audiobook version for […]
I really wanted to like this more than I did…
I’ve read most of Augusten Burroughs’s previous memoirs; my favorite of his books, Running with Scissors, is probably his most popular- it even inspired a movie adaptation. In his latest memoir, Lust & Wonder, Burroughs recounts the three big romantic relationships he had spanning the few years prior to his writing career taking off to the present day. Burroughs is a mess. He’s made a career of being a mess. The events of this book highlight how much of a mess he is, primarily in […]
“Was it even fair to expect the person you’re with to be just as happy as you? Furthermore, how could you ever even know for sure?”
I read Augusten Burroughs’s memoir about his extremely messed up childhood, Running With Scissors, sometime when it first came out in 2002. Since then, I’ve read many, many memoirs about messed up childhoods, but for some reason, his really stuck with me. I’ve read most of what he’s written since — Dry, Magical Thinking, Side Effects, and now, Lust & Wonder. None of them have really measured up to Running With Scissors for me, but Lust & Wonder comes the closest. “I know now: what is is all that matters. Not the thing you […]