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In addition to the fact that they are both recently written memoirs, I discovered last night that the life stories of both our forty third President and the wildly popular Bloggess intersect in the town of Midland, Texas. Two richly textured personalities, two lives that have affected untold others in the last two decades, both sprung up from the hard, dry, earth of Midland, that oil crust that apparently breeds fascinating people.
I really am having a hard time every day deciding which one to pick up first, they are both so good in their own ways. And I am accumulating a bevvy of notes comparing and contrasting George W with Jenny Lawson, a mental exercise that probably seems pointless to you. But you try to read these side by side and not see the parallels!
Okay, gotta go. I am off to either be inspired by the bloom of a political career or laugh my tummy flat at the way Lawson tells her sad stories. I promise to write completely useless reviews of both books soon.
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Haven't heard of Jenny Lawson but am heading over to check her out. I'm reading two books right now - The Paper Garden which is the biography of Mary Granville - an 18th century aristocrat who created a series of botanical paper portraits late in her life AND Fifty Shades of Grey (which I've given up reading because it's trash). Now THAT'S diverse!
ReplyDeleteHi, Marie! I'm looking forward to reading these reviews. I like your philosophy of reading two entirely different or opposing books at the same time. I tend to stick the the same style most of the time. I think I need to broaden my horizons a bit. :)
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