Something terrible has happened to me in the past few years. I've turned into one of those people who hates to read anything longer than 45 glossy pages. (I always turned my nose up at people like me.) My mom is DYING at this new development in my personality, mostly because I couldn't get my nose out of a book as a kid/teenager and because she prides herself on being literary. But I don't know. I fell out of love somehow. People keep pushing books on me, swearing I'll love them and I'm all "meh".
Well dear blog reader (and Mom), something happened to me just last night. I stayed up until 3am READING A HARDCOVER NOVEL. I couldn't put it down! It was so good that I was having those torn feelings about not being able to stop reading it, yet not wanting it to end.
This little book just caught my eye as I was perusing the stacks of the "new arrivals" at the library and I remember having read a couple of reviews and/or articles about this book. Thought I would give it the cursory glance and then end up returning it, unread, to the library as I have with so many other books in the past two years.
But man, she caught me good from almost the beginning, Laurie Lindeen did. It was my total achilles heel for hometown gossip, insider music biz stuff, and a glimpse (in a very well written way) into what it was like to be a girl in the nineties in love with music. It was my dream world, all wrapped up in some kick ass prose.
I LOOOOOOVED IT!
So in case, you wanna see some reviews of the book that rocked my world and may have rekindled my reading desires, I've put some links below.
2 comments:
I loved me some Zuzu's Petals - probably no surprise there. I'm intrigued. I swore off buying fiction last year and doubt Switzerland will have it in the local library. There must be a way...there MUST be a way!
Man, that was a good book. Firstly, it's nonfiction, and I'm pretty sure that if a well meaning and loving friend gives it to you as a present then you won't be breaking any rules. :)
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