Running with Scissors
6 journalers for this copy...
It's amazing what you find when you clean back closets!
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.
Thanks again!
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.
Looking forward to reading this soon. Thanks!
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.
Vedranaster, do sit firmly down when reading this and a bottle of brandy may also make the story seem a little less exotic.
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