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Well, THIS is Embarrassing: Wrapping up PAT CONROY MONTH! with a Review of Beach Music (by Bethany)
I never really had ‘80’s hair. My hair has been a lot of different lengths over the past 36 years, and once or twice I’ve thought it was a good idea to cut bangs, but overall my hair has always … Continue reading
In which my thirty-five year old self accidentally comes across my teenage self. Jill’s review of Pat Conroy’s The Lords of Discipline.
These are some thoughts I jotted down one night while I was having trouble getting to sleep. I think it’s kind of nonsense, but it’s heart-felt nonsense. I got lost tonight. I got lost and found a version of myself … Continue reading
Happy Pat Conroy Day: A Review of The Water Is Wide (by Bethany)
So today is Pat Conroy Day in the city of Tulsa – the day that inspired us to declare September to be PAT CONROY MONTH! here at Postcards from Purgatory, where gleefully one-upping small midwestern cities is an important part of … Continue reading
Well, Finally: A Review of Pat Conroy’s My Losing Season (by Bethany)
I read this book for the first time in the early months of 2003. The basement apartment I lived in that year – an on-campus apartment provided by my first boarding-school job – was huge and spacious with three bedrooms and … Continue reading
In which I visit a City of Books! Jill’s Review of Pat Conroy’s My Reading Life.
I’ve never been much of a non-fiction reader. So that’s why when Pat Conroy started publishing memoirs, first in 2003 with My Losing Season, and then in 2010 with My Reading Life, I didn’t rush out and buy them, despite … Continue reading
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