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3.78 AVERAGE
3.78 AVERAGE
She had me crying in the first 14 pages, and several times throughout. I love her style!
Not every essay interested me, but many did. Read as filler while waiting for other boys to arrive, I enjoyed this far more than I expected to. Clever, crisp, and creative use of language. Fun. Heart wrenching. Lovely.
Reading this is like reading poetry...and I'm not certain that I like poetry. It's like reading Proust, but not nearly so long, but just as confusing. It feels like an accomplishment to have finished it. I do know that it feels like I haven't met enough people in my lifetime after these vignettes.
I found this book fascinating. While I admit that I was drawn to it because I wanted to know if any of the letters were addressed to Billy Crudup (admit it, you want to know, too), I was pleasantly surprised by this thoughtful beautiful collection. Some of the letters (like the one to her adopted daughter's uncle) will absolutely break your heart. Others will make you laugh. All of them will make you think. I knew Ms. Parker was a talented actress. Turns out, she might be an even more talented writer.
Memoirs written in the epistolary form addressed to 30+ different men that Mary-Louise Parker has either had brief but significant interactions with (cab driver, a fire fighter, etc) or ones who have played major roles in her life, particularly her late father, her grand-father, one of her best friends, her best friend's husband etc.
Some letters were very moving, some were funny, all of them were honest and classy, quite a few even poetic. I have always thought that MLP is not only a wonderful actress but that she appears to be a very intelligent, talented woman, and this collection of letters definitely confirms that impression.
Some letters were very moving, some were funny, all of them were honest and classy, quite a few even poetic. I have always thought that MLP is not only a wonderful actress but that she appears to be a very intelligent, talented woman, and this collection of letters definitely confirms that impression.
A series of short stories written as memoir-ish letters. Some draw on her real life experiences and some are fiction, but it's left to the reader to try to suss that out for themselves. I enjoyed many of them, but was sometimes left thinking, "wow, it must be exhausting to be Mary-Louise Parker" - she comes off, at least in her writing, as a pretty high strung person.
The only way I would have loved this more is if I had been upstate on a porch under a quilt.
I spent so much time with this book. This collection of letters is the sort of small comfort you reach for on grey days and boring work breaks; a little glimpse of the big picture in between the mundane moments. A few sections reached me in such a personal way, I couldn't imagine being as brave as Parker. Most of the book was hysterical. A few parts were sort of gross in a great way. If you need to feed your soul without hearing some pretentious bullshit, pick this book up.