My sister recommended I Am Still Alive with a warning that the dog dies so I spent the entire book worried he was going to die which made me way more stressed than not knowing ahead of time. Or not. I am basically always stressed when an animal is a main character. But I’m not dead yet, and someone should know. Someone should know what happened. So I’m writing it down, as best I can. In pieces, because that’s the way it is in my head, all […]
CBR10 Bingo: Alabama Pink and a third Bingo
Lollygagger recently reviewed a different book, Wicked, for the same Bingo Square- Alabama Pink- and came away with the realization that they would probably not have belonged in the same book club. I agree; Enchantment was the only book that interested me from the list of books Alabama Pink was able to read and review before her untimely death (I have yet to muster the motivation for our upcoming Book Club selection) and it was severely disappointing. I do wonder though, is it possible to glean a complete […]
“You know, I sometimes think that the most effective people in the world are introverts who taught themselves how to be extroverts.”
Meg Wolitzer’s The Female Persuasion is one of those books that is full of big ideas but never really lands any of them. Greer Kadetsky is the Type A daughter of two hippie-esq parents who botched her financial aid paperwork to Yale so she was forced to go to her safety school, Ryland. Her boyfriend, Cory, is the son of Portuguese immigrants who goes off to Princeton while Greer miserably attends Ryland. During Greer’s first weekend at school she is sexually assaulted by a frat boy who goes […]
“You’ll be silent forever, and I’ll be gone in the dark.”
“I don’t care if I’m the one who captures him. I just want bracelets on his wrists and a cell door slamming behind him.” Michelle McNamara died in April 2016 halfway through the writing of I’ll be Gone in the Dark but her husband, Patton Oswalt, editors and research assistants completed her book and published in February of this year. Two months later, on April 24th, the Golden State Killer was found using a DNA profile uploaded to a genealogy website. There was a lot of hubbub […]