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A Review of Jill Lepore’s The Whites of their Eyes: The Tea Party’s Revolution and the Battle over American History (by Bethany)
Postcards from Purgatory is not a political blog, and thank goodness for that. If we were, there would be a chance that we would become really famous someday and get invited to events where we would have to make small … Continue reading
A Review of Rebecca Dana’s Jujitsu Rabbi and the Godless Blonde (by Bethany)
I mostly read this book for the martial arts. I read a review of this book in the Wall Street Journal the week it was published, and my first thought was that there are a lot of memoirs out there … Continue reading
A Review of Salman Rushdie’s Joseph Anton: A Memoir
I just found out this week that back in high school Jill thought I was “so cool” because I owned a copy of The Satanic Verses. This is how lucky I’ve been in my life: by fifteen, I had found … Continue reading
One Pound, Nine Ounces: A Review of Jon Krakauer’s Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman (by Bethany)
TBCWL So Far: 3 pounds, 1 ounce I know people who hate war but love football, and I don’t even want to think about the kind of cognitive dissonance that has to happen inside their heads to make that weird … Continue reading
On the road again…. Anitober begins with a review of John Steinbeck’s Travels with Charley (by Jill)
This is the first book in my “Anitober” reading challenge, in which I finally read books recommended to me by my old college roommate, Anita. Travels with Charley was the first book I remember Anita recommending to me, sometime back … 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
A Review of Geoff Dyer’s Yoga for People Who Can’t Be Bothered to Do It (by Bethany)
This book is not about yoga. Not in the slightest little bit. This book is many things – a collection of travel essays, a memoir of the early stages of a nervous breakdown, a contemplation of geography and history and time, a narrative … Continue reading
In Which I Start Writing about Food and End up Writing about Books: A Review of The Pat Conroy Cookbook (by Bethany)
On page 239 of his cookbook, Pat Conroy writes that book critics are “mostly bulimic, rail-thin – no great appetites there.” I laughed uproariously (laughing uproariously is a very Conroyvian thing to do) when I read this statement: clearly Conroy … Continue reading
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