You guys, I may have lost perspective on whether Liane Moriarty is a good author or not.  I kinda don’t care; I’ve been devouring her novels like cupcakes. If you’re looking at the nutritional info on a cupcake, you’re doing cupcakes AND nutrition wrong. There was a long weekend, I was at the beach, and I certainly didn’t feel like A Brief History of Time. Anyway, this book centers on middle class life in Australia, so it’s a real departure for Moriarty.  (I honestly wonder if I subconsciously bump up my estimation of her skills because she writes about a […]

Spoil yourself for this book before you read it. The number one complaint I read in the reviews for it were that people got frustrated trying to figure out what happened at the barbeque, and since that’s the least important thing about the book, they were underwhelmed when it finally did happen. So yes, spoil yourself, and then go in and read Truly Madly Guilty, Moriarty’s book about friendship, trauma, and how trauma shapes our lives. Non-spoilery summary as follows. Three couples have a barbeque one day, and a terrible accident happens that abruptly ends their evening. Erika and Oliver […]

 I bought this looking for something fluffy for a plane ride and was surprised by how much I enjoyed it. I mean really, amnesia? That’s such an old horse that there’s nothing left to beat, it’s done, it’s over, even soap operas are tired of it. But while no one is nominating Moriarty for a Pulitzer, this was a much better book than one could have expected from the synopsis.  I’m lucky I bought it on name recognition and dove right in; I had no clue what it was about and got to experience the horror of jumping ahead a […]