I read it last year and really thought it was great even if a bit random.
Yeah, I'm not sure
Where'd You Go, Bernadette
has an overall thesis statement (and it seems like it should?), but I really enjoyed the writing. Her cultural observations are amazingly precise.
I think a lot of the book wound up being about how easy it can be to get lost -- in the world, in the narrative you create for yourself, in anger or passion or love. But I also think there's a thread in there about the things we worship, and the ways we worship them -- lifestyles, people, religious icons -- that was unexpected and really fascinating.
I'm definitely going to look up her other book.
I thought they both were really funny and the kinds of stuff reviewers write "keenly observed" about but not in a tiresome way.
My library website is down, so I'm just going to leave it here that Sharp Objects is the Gillian Flynn book I haven't read yet.
And in news that might be interested to people not-me, it is going to be on HBO: [link]
I was cleaning the house and found a piece of paper that had a list of 6 books on it (in my handwriting). I had been writing books down that I thought I might look into with no other reasons listed. So I ordered them from the library and I'm enjoying them.
One book,
The Rest of Us Just Live Here
is AWESOME. So meta and funny in an apocalpyse adjacent way. Anyone read it?
I just put it on hold at the library. I've wanted to read him for a while -- he has a huge range.
A Monster Calling
is supposed to be fantastic.
Jane Steel.
JANE STEEL by Lyndsay Faye.
JANE STEEL. is relevant to our interests. Let me turn to page three to show you why.
[ahem]
"Reader, I murdered him."
[link]
Penguinrandomhouse still makes me laugh like a loon.
Huh, I feel like I read that same line in Jane Slayre. What are the odds?
Sharp Objects is the Gillian Flynn book I haven't read yet.
And it is the only Gillian Flynn book I've read!
