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whatcha readin'? {2017::book 5 - goal 24}

July 17, 2017 Arlene Giddings

i like biographies and memoirs.
i used to like drew barrymore.
(i have to say
i have since watched
"santa clarita diet"
and lost a little something there...
and drew's acting nearly made me
want to claw my skin off...)

but
this is not about that show
and not about how i barely made it
through the first episode
and how i was puzzled
the whole way through the 1st episode by
the plot...the acting...the writing...
wow.

so anyway.
wildflower was a pretty good book.
amusing and interesting...
but the kind of book
you are kind of glad you borrowed
cause if you had paid for it,
you might be kicking yourself a little.

wow.
i hope drew barrymore never reads this.
i don't mean to sound so...mean.
it's monday...it's really hot still...and i'm ready for bed
so slightly cranky/sulky...

if you are reading this, drew barrymore,
please know that i loved you in the wedding singer
and adored you in boys on the side...
so...we good?

updated to add:  i just read some reviews of
Santa Clarita Diet and a lot of them say
the show gets better as it goes...
so maybe, just maybe, i'm wrong on this one.
anyone else watch it & want to sway me one way or the other? 

3 ♥♥♥ out of 5
NEXT UP:  THE SLEEPWALK (CHRIS BOHJALIAN)

In whatcha readin' Tags AVID, avid reader, books, all the books, drew barrymore, memoir
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whatcha readin'? {book 1::goal 24}

February 20, 2017 Arlene Giddings

the first book i read for 2017
was boys in the trees
by carly simon...
which is kind of weird for me
because i wouldn't consider myself
a carly simon fan...
not that i dislike her...
i just don't really know much about her.

i like the song "you're so vain".

that's about all i knew going into this.

i didn't even know she had been married to james taylor
(another person i know nothing about
and have never really listened to...)

and i definitely did not know that her father
was the simon in simon and schuster.

but i am a sucker for memoirs.
i always have been.
and this one did not disappoint.

her writing was both beautiful and sad...
i think the honesty was what broke my heart
when she wrote about her marriage.

in the end, i was happy that i chose this book to
start off my 2017 reading adventure....
:)

3.5 out of 5 ♥'s

NEXT UP:  ANNE OF GREEN GABLES - LM MONTGOMERY (re-reading as part of my 50 before 50 list)

 

In whatcha readin', 2017 Tags avid reader, carly simon, biography, memoir, read
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