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Fire Away

I just finished reading Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness, by Susannah Cahalan, and although it's a cliche to say so, I truly could not put this book down. I read it on the bus; I read it on my lunch break; I read it at home when I was supposed to be washing dishes. What about this memoir makes it so engrossing? The story begins when then-24-year-old Susannah Cahalan, a sparky and driven reporter for the New York Post, suddenly starts acting strange: erratic behavior, wild mood swings, and symptoms like numbness and hallucinations. As her condition worsens, [...]

2016-12-31T17:58:59-07:00June 7th, 2013|Tags: , , |

Loved This, Try That: Gone Girl

Dark Thrillers for Scary Reading We’re guessing you’ve heard of a little book called Gone Girl, Gillian Flynn’s twisted, multi-layered psychological thriller about a charming young couple whose seemingly perfect marriage is a snakepit of deception, cat-and-mouse scheming, and homicidal revenge (read our full review and vote for your dream movie cast). Ready for more chills? Take a look at these creepy, extra-dark thrillers we loved — but don’t blame us if you have to sleep with the lights on afterward. Sharp Objects, Gillian Flynn Well, why not start at the most logical place: Flynn’s equally dark first novel, Sharp [...]

2016-12-31T17:56:21-07:00April 15th, 2013|Tags: , , , , , , |

“Going Clear”: A Master-piece?

Thanks to the library, I have my hot little hands on a copy of Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief, by Lawrence Wright. Previously, I'd read Wright's fantastic article in the New Yorker about David Miscavige, the successor to Scientology's founder L. Ron Hubbard. And now there's so much more to wallow in! I'm only about 100 pages in so far, but already it's an astonishing portrait of a bizarre, delusional, overbearing, narcissistic larger-than-life personality. With this background, I'm now realizing how eerily accurate Philip Seymour Hoffman's performance in The Master really was. (It doesn't make me [...]

2016-12-31T17:59:01-07:00April 11th, 2013|Tags: , , |
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