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Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Caroline at Kepler's
Ya hoo! I am guest blogging at Kepler's again today-and giving away a copy of Feed Me, edited by Harriet Brown, which features my essay, The Grief Diet, about a toxic, controlling ex-boyfriend who would not let me eat (and why I stayed with him.)
Oooo, Caroline! When you nostalgically mentioned MOVING ON in your blog today at Kepler's, it brought back such a happy reading memory for me. Every New Year's Day I type out a graded list of books read that previous year and I keep them in a tattered red box. I just now pulled out that box and found that I'd read MOVING ON in 1970 (the year I first started keeping track, actually), and I had given it an "A"!
Mary, isn't it a wonderful book? I got my copy out of a used bookstore and I still have it--Huge! Big brown cover. I read and read and so adored that book! I'm so happy to find another person who loved it, too! I read in a recent edition that readers were mad at McMurtry for having Patsy cry so much, but I frankly liked that about her! I loved that whole crowd: Patsy and Emma and Danny Deck, of All My Friends Are Going to be Strangers (another great McMurtry book.)
Kindred spirits, Caroline . . . (smile). I still have mine, too, only my cover is white. Bet I got mine from Literary Guild way back then. (I liked Patsy's crying, too. Nicely emotional.)
Oooo, Caroline! When you nostalgically mentioned MOVING ON in your blog today at Kepler's, it brought back such a happy reading memory for me. Every New Year's Day I type out a graded list of books read that previous year and I keep them in a tattered red box. I just now pulled out that box and found that I'd read MOVING ON in 1970 (the year I first started keeping track, actually), and I had given it an "A"!
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ReplyDeleteMary, isn't it a wonderful book? I got my copy out of a used bookstore and I still have it--Huge! Big brown cover. I read and read and so adored that book! I'm so happy to find another person who loved it, too! I read in a recent edition that readers were mad at McMurtry for having Patsy cry so much, but I frankly liked that about her! I loved that whole crowd: Patsy and Emma and Danny Deck, of All My Friends Are Going to be Strangers (another great McMurtry book.)
ReplyDeleteKindred spirits, Caroline . . . (smile). I still have mine, too, only my cover is white. Bet I got mine from Literary Guild way back then. (I liked Patsy's crying, too. Nicely emotional.)
ReplyDeleteNow I want to go read it again! I'm going to go find my copy!
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