I didn’t realize until after finishing Before the Fall that Noah Hawley writes and produces the TV series Fargo. It definitely made sense though after completing this incredibly well-written thriller. Those of y’all who like Liane Moriarty — add this to your TBR. “Everyone has their own path. The choices they’ve made. How any two people end up in the same place at the same time is a mystery. You get on an elevator with a dozen strangers. You ride a bus, wait in line for the bathroom. It […]
Writing as therapy
As a teenager, Blair Braverman — who always had an obsession with the North — lived as an exchange student in Norway, where she had a really messed up experience with her host family (namely, the father). So she spent the next 15 years or so trying to work through that by traveling to very, very cold places and putting herself in difficult and dangerous situations, trying to find some peace. I did really enjoy certain parts of this book. Anything involving her work with sled […]
Georgia Peaches and a lot of elephant facts
This was such a cute book, and full of great messages — love yourself, be yourself, God loves everyone, it’s okay to be gay, accept people for who they are, etc — that this straight married atheist absolutely loved. Teenager Jo Gordon has been out and proud for years, and her radio evangelist father has always supported her. Unfortunately, the summer before her senior year, he remarries for the third time (to a much younger woman), moves Jo from fairly accepting Atlanta, GA to the much more […]
A very unusual memoir
Nadja Spiegelman, daughter of Maus creator Art Spiegelman and New Yorker art director Françoise Mouly, wrote this memoir that’s less about her own life, and more about how her life weaves into her mother’s and grandmother’s and great-grandmother’s — and how secret and lies and tricks of memory can affect these relationships. “I saw a pattern forming, like a series of skipping stones that sent ripples through the generations: all the granddaughters and grandmothers who loved each other, all the mothers left stranded in between.” Nadja’s […]