Running with Scissors

by Augusten Burroughs | Literature & Fiction |
ISBN: 0312283709 Global Overview for this book
Registered by truthteller of Mobile, Alabama USA on 4/16/2005
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6 journalers for this copy...
Journal Entry 1 by truthteller from Mobile, Alabama USA on Saturday, April 16, 2005
I remember laughing a lot at the same time disbelieving...
It's amazing what you find when you clean back closets!

Journal Entry 2 by truthteller from Mobile, Alabama USA on Tuesday, September 12, 2006
Sending upon request to BCer MarilynD. Enjoy!

Journal Entry 3 by MarilynD from Bartlett, Tennessee USA on Thursday, September 14, 2006
Truthteller graciously sent this to me at my request, without asking for anything in return. I'll pass on the favor some day :) Thank you so much and I look forward to reading the book.

Journal Entry 4 by MarilynD from Bartlett, Tennessee USA on Tuesday, January 16, 2007
Bizarre is all I can say, but so bizarre that I finished the book just to see how it turned out. It's hard to imagine families living in such squalor and craziness. It might be interesting to see the movie.

Taking to OBCZ Meetup Jan 20 in case any member hasn't read our January book.

Released 17 yrs ago (1/20/2007 UTC) at Bellamy's Deli - 694 N Germantown Pkwy @ Trinity in Cordova, Tennessee USA

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Releasing at OBCZ MidSouth Bookcrossing Meetup today. Thanks again, Truthteller, for your generosity in sending this.

Journal Entry 6 by ariesgirl29 on Saturday, January 20, 2007
I hadn't read it yet so am going to now! I just gave away my copy and am going to read this one - thanks Marilyn!

Journal Entry 7 by ariesgirl29 on Sunday, December 2, 2007
Mailing to winner of RABCK contest.

Journal Entry 8 by UnwrittenLibra from Middleton, Wisconsin USA on Monday, December 10, 2007
Received this book in my mailbox on a cold and lonely day in Amherst, Massachusetts. A smile lit up my face when I saw it...what a wonderful surprise for a day like today! Thank you so much, ariesgirl29...I'll make sure to take it with me on a pilgrimage to Augusten-Burroughs-land (Northampton, MA, only 20 minutes away...) before reading it (eventually) and sending it off!

Thanks again!

Journal Entry 9 by UnwrittenLibra at Baltimore, Maryland USA on Monday, February 7, 2011
I finally got around to tackling this one off my TBR list - unfortunately I didn't get around to reading it when I actually lived in Amherst, but I finally knocked it off my list a few days ago.

I was really surprised by the book as I have never seen the movie and avoided any articles about it. At first, I despised the Finch family, but eventually grew to like them. Augusten started off as a very neurotic and insecure person and his experience with the Finch family was just enough to contrast with his usual nature and bring him out of his shell enough to become a functioning person, albeit a bit strange, but then again everyone's strange, I guess. A lot of the naked imagery was disturbing, but the highlight for me was reading about the adventures of Augusten and Natalie. I saw a lot of myself in Augusten, for some reason, and reading about the two going to local landmarks like Thorne's and Broadside Books.

I'm hoping to start a bookring and get some mileage for this one.

Journal Entry 10 by UnwrittenLibra at Baltimore, Maryland USA on Wednesday, July 27, 2011
Reserved as a RABCK for Kirjakko!

Journal Entry 11 by wingkirjakkowing at Helsinki, Uusimaa / Nyland Finland on Wednesday, August 3, 2011
Arrived today all the way from Baltimore!This was UnwrittenLibra's way of moving his books and I have to say I wouldn't mind you moving more often... I hope the new place is worth losing all those books.
Looking forward to reading this soon. Thanks!

Journal Entry 12 by wingkirjakkowing at Helsinki, Uusimaa / Nyland Finland on Tuesday, August 9, 2011
What should I say? No offence to previous readers, but ONLY IN AMERICA was my first thought.
Mentally disturbed and alcoholic parents - that could be anywhere, but Dr. Finch the Shrink - gaaa!
Not only did he want to show his Masturbatorium to an 11-year-old boy, let her 28-year-old daughter starve the family cat to death, give his consent to two 13-year-olds to have affairs with mental patients over twice their age, tell a 14-year-old that the only legal way to skip school would be trying to commit a suicide (he also organized the attempt and the placing into a mental hospital afterwards)(can having Bill Cosby's daughter as a classmate really be THAT bad?), hand out drug samples of almost any kind to his kids if they had problems. Bible-dipping and reading God's will from feaces were also the norm in the Finch household. The reason he finally lost his license was INSURANCE FRAUD, so I have to repeat - ONLY IN AMERICA.
It must have taken some courage to write the book. It seems that the writer has gotten over his extraordinary childhood. I did take a peak of his home pages and they were like something his mother could have written, so he may just have had an excellent publishing editor. The book was well-written and even entertaining at times (hmm, what does that tell about me?), so I'll keep in my PC for the time being. Thanks once again for sending it over, UnwrittenLibra.

Journal Entry 13 by wingkirjakkowing at Zagreb, Zagreb City Croatia on Thursday, March 29, 2012

Released 11 yrs ago (4/2/2012 UTC) at Zagreb, Zagreb City Croatia

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Springcleaning the shelves and hitting the wishlist tag-game at the same time equals that "Scissors" will be moving to Croatia next. They are a pair of quite well-travelled scissors, I must say.
Vedranaster, do sit firmly down when reading this and a bottle of brandy may also make the story seem a little less exotic.

Journal Entry 14 by vedranaster at Zagreb: Donji grad (city centre), Zagreb City Croatia on Thursday, April 19, 2012

The book arrived today, safe and sound.
LOVE the stamps! AND the fab Garfield card that came with the book! Thank you. :D

As for the book, it looks like a "vacation time" kind of read, when my mind is not on a million other things... And seeing how my Mount TBR is pretty big, Running with Scissors will stay on my shelf awhile, till I can read it in peace. :)
Looking forward to it, though, a lot. The blurbs I'd read before putting it on my wishlist left me quite intrigued. And while I generally don't like your run of the mill "I survived a weird and terrible childhood" books, when the author takes the humorous/witty road I'm always in.

Thanks for sending, kirjakko, and happy Easter to you, too! :D


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