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I’ve been reading a few of her books and cannot tell if she is tongue in cheek or serious with her approach to the characters. What is apparent is that she’s quite a good writer.
I liked “Breathing Lessons” which won awards, including the Pulitzer, but the main character has to be one of the most annoying, irritating literary creations of all time.
| by Anonymous | reply 18 | May 7, 2025 2:00 AM |
Is this a lesbian thread?
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | May 6, 2025 2:24 PM |
Breathing Lessons was a very entertaining book. I think there was a TV movie made of it as well
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | May 6, 2025 2:28 PM |
Read The Accidental Tourist. It's great, better than Breathing Lessons. She's a very appealing writer.
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | May 6, 2025 4:51 PM |
Anne.
I’ve read a ton of her stuff.
The Accidental Tourist is a masterpiece.
Dinner At The Homesick Restaurant and Searching For Caleb are even better.
Breathing Lessons is a riot (for Tyler). I remember laughing and laughing. There was a movie that as R2 — a Hallmark Hall Of Fame production, yet. Joanne Woodward and James Garner. Perfectly cast. A terrific story. So Tyler. I loved everything about it.
I also liked Ladder of Years (though it’s the last one I read).
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | May 6, 2025 5:01 PM |
Oh! I liked A Patchwork Planet, too. That’s a good one.
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | May 6, 2025 5:05 PM |
It’s terrific. The book is better. But this is a great companion piece.
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | May 6, 2025 5:06 PM |
I remember enjoying Saint Maybe quite a bit.
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | May 6, 2025 5:08 PM |
[quote]Is this a lesbian thread?
No, it's a Datalounge thread.
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | May 6, 2025 5:12 PM |
She's a fabulous writer. The neanderthals who make up the public do not deserve her.
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | May 6, 2025 5:25 PM |
R4/R5 here. R7, Saint Maybe is a personal favorite (also made into a movie by Hallmark Hall of Fame).
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | May 6, 2025 5:27 PM |
I'm from Baltimore. She is one of the few good things to come out of this hellhole.
| by Anonymous | reply 11 | May 6, 2025 5:31 PM |
She rarely gives interviews but in her latest it was revealed she had left her longtime Baltimore house for an assisted living home. Made me sad.
| by Anonymous | reply 12 | May 6, 2025 6:51 PM |
She's in a Quaker retirement community. Not, to my knowledge, an assisted living community.
| by Anonymous | reply 13 | May 7, 2025 12:10 AM |
Accidental Tourist was wonderful. I think I read Breathing Lessons. That tells you something.
| by Anonymous | reply 14 | May 7, 2025 1:33 AM |
talent runs in the family. I love her sister Bonnie's music.
| by Anonymous | reply 15 | May 7, 2025 1:36 AM |
I read Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant and A Patchwork Planet aeons ago. They're well-written, obviously, but I remember coming away from both of them feeling depressed.
| by Anonymous | reply 16 | May 7, 2025 1:36 AM |
She always creates the weirdest professions for her characters.
As a teen, I was jealous of these fuckers who could survive taking down christmas trees.
| by Anonymous | reply 17 | May 7, 2025 1:46 AM |
I have every book of hers and I've read them multiple times, she's my favorite author.
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