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I just read The Perfect Mother a first novel by Aimee Molloy. For a first attempt, it wasn't too bad, but as usual, I got bored with the ending and the characters are too many and not very well portrayed. But, for a first novel, it held my interest through most of it. 317 pages.
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I just pulled this one off my bookshelf not even 5 minutes ago because I wanted to start this one next.
I finished this in two days. I thought it was a decent read but I agree with your point about the characters; there's too many to keep up with in the beginning and they're not very well fleshed out.
I just finished My Friend Anna.
This is non fiction (maybe a memoir of sorts- DAWN ) . It really drew me in and it's one of those stories that has you wondering how it really could have happened, but it really really did. (Pretty much between 2013-2019).
I did not remember reading about this but others I mentioned it to said they recalled it. A fraud socialite international, but mostly NYC based.
The writer is one of her victims and although the writer was definitely not in on it and got taken bigtime, it's debatable how sympathetic one feels. Still she did manage to capture the personality and mentality of the fraud Anna Delvey.
Not sure what is next.
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I just finished My Friend Anna.
This is non fiction (maybe a memoir of sorts- DAWN ) . It really drew me in and it's one of those stories that has you wondering how it really could have happened, but it really really did. (Pretty much between 2013-2019).
I did not remember reading about this but others I mentioned it to said they recalled it. A fraud socialite international, but mostly NYC based.
The writer is one of her victims and although the writer was definitely not in on it and got taken bigtime, it's debatable how sympathetic one feels. Still she did manage to capture the personality and mentality of the fraud Anna Delvey.
Not sure what is next.
Thank you!!! I just added it to my "to read" list AND downloaded it to my e-reader. I'm not sure when I'll get to it -- I have some books coming to me soon from the library too -- but get to it I will. Thanks so much!
Reading Dropped Names: Famous Men And Women As I Knew Them, a memoir by actor Frank Langella. He's certainly worked with a wide variety of people and writes a series of vignettes of what they were like when not on stage and/or screen.
I read that, and I'm not even sure why, but I enjoyed it. I think I was looking for a salacious tell-all book, and this was as close as I got.
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I've been in a bit of a reading slump, although I'm not sure why --I read a novel for a neighborhood book club, called This is How It Always Is, which is about a family with a transgender child. I thought I would really like it, but I found all of the characters to be unrealistic, unbelievable and incredibly irritating. So it took me a while to get through it. Then I had two more book club reads -- one called Karma and Other Stories, which was okay, and then one called If the Creek Don't Rise, which I liked well enough, although didn't totally love. In between, I've been trying to read Loving Frank, which I first heard about here, and I'm actually really liking it. So that is a positive. I want to get back in gear, since it's a new year in the Goodreads reading challenge, and I can't dig myself into a hole. Hoping to finish Loving Frank tonight or tomorrow so I can get that first book done.
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While I'm waiting for a couple of library books to come in, I don't want to lock myself into anything so I'm reading essays from 97,196 Words: Essays by Emmanuel Carrere. I just read the one about a Hungarian POW -- it took my breath away. Sad but so lovely.
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