Oops, the holidays happened and I forgot to post links round-ups. I know you have all been suffering terribly without them. My hope is that you improved the shining hour by catching up on Crazy Ex-Girlfriend and The Good Place, my two favorite shows on TV. But if you just moped around a-waiting, here’s the goods at last. Black women have largely been left out of the conversation about harassment (quelle surprise). Rebecca Carroll talks about her experience of racist belittlement from Charlie Rose. On the state of Kentucky and the borders of the South. Gillian Flynn writes about how…
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Nothing I want to say about Gone Girl can be said without spoilers, so on the off chance that anybody reading this post has been slower than me to read Gone Girl, and cares about spoilers, begone with you! (Instead of reading this post, you should go read Ana’s post about books where The Twist dominates conversations about the book. Not apropos of anything! Not being pointed! Just an interesting read!) Okay! If you didn’t want to be spoiled, I hope you have stopped reading! I am going to say spoilers now! Now I’m going to say them. Right now.…
25 CommentsTa-da! At last I have read this book and can proceed, like a year later, to Gone Girl. Seriously, it is almost a year later. You would not believe how long it takes for a hold on a Gillian Flynn book to get in at the library. Dark Places is about the only survivor of a massacre that killed her whole family. At the age of seven, Libby Day testified that she saw her older brother Ben murder her mother and two older sisters. Now she’s in her thirties, running out of money left her by sympathetic well-wishers, and searching…
15 CommentsProject: Read Gillian Flynn’s Books In Order is now one-third complete! Huzzah! Now I just have Dark Places and Gone Girl to go, and I already own one of those. So my project is closer to being, like, three-sevenths complete. It may be some time yet before I get to read Dark Places. I am eleventh of fourteen on the holds list for that one. It’ll happen! Just not right away. I’ll have plenty of time to think about Gillian Flynn in between reading her first and second books. If God truly loves me He’ll send me Dark Places right…
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