Patricia Bosworth is an actress and biographer and this is her memoir about her brother and father both of whom committed suicide. I loved this book, learning about Patricia, her time at Sarah Lawrence, toxic first marriage and the early days of the Actor's Studio. Highly recommend.
This is a book I have been hearing about for years but just picked up at the bookstore on Main Street in Park City. There were parts I found dense and had to read multiple times before they sunk in (if they ever did) but there were other parts that shot into my soul the second my eyes brushed the page.
The Amazon Bookstore on 34th street in Manhattan feels totally soulless. This is perhaps why on the only occasion I have ever been there I bought two books about religion. Accidental Saints was one of them. Bolz-Weber is shockingly honest about her personal failures as a pastor which makes you trust that she's probably a good one.
Americanah is book that has been on my mental "to read" shelf for years. I can't say why, when I have 50+ books on my physical "to read" shelf that the time felt right to randomly download this to my nook last week. But once I started I devoured it in a couple of days and couldn't believe it took me this long to get to to party. Loved it.
Obviously as a feminist, Hilary loving millennial I bought The Female Persuasion the week it was released. Pretty much all I did last week was lie on my couch reading novels (sorry screenplay). It was a delightful week of physical laziness and intellectual stimuli.
Bought Today Will Be Different at an airport Hudson News about a year ago and plucked it off the "to read" shelf after finishing Americanah and The Female Persuasion as I was on a female novelist high. Read the whole thing in one very amusing afternoon (further apologies to the unfinished screenplay).
My intention was to read all of Shirley Jackson's novels in chronological order. I have done this with the exception of We Have Always Lived in the Castle. I really wanted it to continue my female novel streak but when I couldn't find the specific edition of it that I want at the Strand or Greenlight, I pivoted to her memoir, Life Among The Savages which I already owned. It's so funny. And my female novel streaked was usurped by a funny memoir streak. Which leads to...
Knew I had to buy Nell Scovell's Just the Funny Parts immediately when I heard her talking on NPR about how despite penning a successful Simpsons script freelance in the second season she was not hired as a staffer because one of the other writers was going through a divorce and didn't want any women in the room! That's the kind of shit you could say in the 90's (and just think now). As someone who has been the only woman in a writer's room I knew this book was going to be tonic to my soul and as close as I could come to having Nell as a mentor. I loved it.
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