Here’s something weird. I read this book a few weeks ago, and I couldn’t put it down. I kept talking about how great it was and how much I loved it. And then I kind of forgot about it, and just moved on to the next book. Which, considering that Noah Hawley is mostly known as a TV writer, sort of makes sense: Finish up one episode, and get ready for the next. You may know Noah Hawley as the mastermind behind the amazing Fargo. […]
“Life is a series of decisions and reactions. It is the things you do and the things that are done to you. And then it’s over.”
“Everyone is from someplace. We all have stories, our lives unfolding along crooked lines, colliding in unexpected ways.” Before the Fall opens with a plane crash with only two survivors. Scott Burroughs is a painter who lives on Martha’s Vineyard and paints disaster scenes in homage to his sister who passed away as a teenager. As a young child he watched Jack LaLanne swim to shore from Alcatraz; this moment inspired him to join the swim team. Maggie is married to media mogul David Bateman and they […]
I can’t stop reading this book!
I’ve got my last 2 books picked out. They’ll be #51 and #52 for my first ever full Cannonball. I made it halfway last year, and unless I’m attacked by an acid shooting squid and I go blind in the next two weeks, I’ll hit my first full Cannonball. I’m really excited, because it feels like a cool accomplishment. Anyway, here are my last two books, lines up on my counter, waiting to be conquered: I’m finishing with The BFG, because my 6 year old […]
“Everyone is from someplace. We all have stories, our lives unfolding along crooked lines, colliding in unexpected ways.”
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 […]