I couldn't do it. I couldn't do it and that is almost unheard of for me. I think this will be the third or fourth book in my 'couldn't finish' list and I read A LOT. I almost always plow through a book no matter what but it wasn't happening here. I think Hollis Gillespie has some talent hidden so...
This is a book of essays, so I kept reading it, hoping some of the later essays would be better. They weren't.The essays about the author's childhood were ok. I have an obsession with reading about families more messed up than mine was. Her family was fairly messed up, and the stories about growi...
I was in front, Malcolm behind me with the lantern in his hand and Captain Beefheart snuggled securely to his chest in the improvised baby sling, and Officer Ned bringing up the rear, limping along with his hand on Malcolm’s shoulder. On either side of us were the passengers’ checked bags, stacke...
Though, oddly, Cheryl says he acted human the whole time."I swear," she said. "He sat at the same table with my family and didn't break a chair over anyone's head or anything."That's pretty astounding, and the only explanation I can think of is it sounds like Tequila Lary struck again. Tequila, a...
I tell you, I was wary right from the beginning, when Michael called to tell me he’d heard on the news they’d finally found the decapitated corpse to match the head in a plastic bag police found five years ago in my neighborhood, Capitol View. For one, that particular headless torso would just be...
Flo and I sat on the Humvee’s open tailgate sucking on popsicles to soothe our smoke-sore throats while Roundtree had found another Starbucks and was off ordering another ridiculous $8 concoction. “I can’t watch this,” he’d grumbled as he left. Anita was in the backseat gently feeding Trixi anoth...