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1. What are you currently reading? She's Not Sorry by Mary Kubica. This is an intricately plotted thriller about Meghan, an ICU nurse, who gets too involved with a mysterious patient and finds her, and her daughter's, lives in danger. It's set during wintertime in Chicago, and Ms. Kubica is good at establishing this familiar time and place for me.
I knew nothing about this book or the author before I picked it up. My public library recommended it and I'm in the mood for a mystery so what the hell. The writing is pretty good, though, better than I expected. Two moments early on have won me over: 1) Meghan can't get to her phone in her big bag until the ringing stops (that's me, all the time) and 2) She describes her decision to divorce with: "Alone and lonely is better than neglected and ignored." I get this woman.
2. What did you recently finish reading? Hollywood: The Oral History compiled by Jeanine Bassinger and Sam Wasson.
I do not recommend this book. Not because it isn't exhaustively researched and, in its way, well written. It is both of those things. It's just that 700+ pages of reminiscences from actors, directors, screenwriters,
producers from silents to present day can get tiresome. This is a reference book you turn to when you want a primer on, say, when movies transitioned from silents to talkies. Or you're curious about Disney's approach to cartoons vs. Warner Bros. It's not a book to curl up with and read, which I had to do since it was the inaugural choice for the Hollywood book club I just joined.
3. What will you read next? I don't know.
I've read several of Mary Kubica's books and found them twisty thrills.
ReplyDeleteThat Hollywood books sounds like the Heather Cox Richardson book I read. It was more like a schoolbook and certainly not something to really enjoy. I thought I'd never finish it, but I did, and I want to reread it, but maybe in parts and not all at once next time.
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