Hilary's book blog experiment

I read too much and too fast. I write too little and too slowly. This might help both problems. Inspired by Sara Nelson's So Many Books, So Little Time: A Year of Passionate Reading and a longstanding desire to track what I read.

April 11, 2010

Running With Scissors: A Memoir - Augusten Burroughs, 2002

I loved Dry--I leafed through it at a bookstore and then couldn't put it down--so my hopes were high for this earlier slice of autobiography. Good but not great. Burrough's adolescence was unbelievably bizarre (although a few people involved have disputed his account) but he survived and found humor in it. The main moral I absorbed is that people can adapt to anything.

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