“Everyone is from someplace. We all have stories, our lives unfolding along crooked lines, colliding in unexpected ways.” Before the Fall opens with a plane crash with only two survivors. Scott Burroughs is a painter who lives on Martha’s Vineyard and paints disaster scenes in homage to his sister who passed away as a teenager. As a young child he watched Jack LaLanne swim to shore from Alcatraz; this moment inspired him to join the swim team. Maggie is married to media mogul David Bateman and they […]
I can’t stop reading this book!
I’ve got my last 2 books picked out. They’ll be #51 and #52 for my first ever full Cannonball. I made it halfway last year, and unless I’m attacked by an acid shooting squid and I go blind in the next two weeks, I’ll hit my first full Cannonball. I’m really excited, because it feels like a cool accomplishment. Anyway, here are my last two books, lines up on my counter, waiting to be conquered: I’m finishing with The BFG, because my 6 year old […]
“Everyone is from someplace. We all have stories, our lives unfolding along crooked lines, colliding in unexpected ways.”
I didn’t realize until after finishing Before the Fall that Noah Hawley writes and produces the TV series Fargo. It definitely made sense though after completing this incredibly well-written thriller. Those of y’all who like Liane Moriarty — add this to your TBR. “Everyone has their own path. The choices they’ve made. How any two people end up in the same place at the same time is a mystery. You get on an elevator with a dozen strangers. You ride a bus, wait in line for the bathroom. It […]