Home Feed
Home
Search
Search
Add Review, Blurb, Quote
Add
Activity
Activity
Profile
Profile
MaryLauraPhilpott

MaryLauraPhilpott

Joined August 2016

book babe in music city (official book pusher @ Parnassus Books, Nash. Pub. TV) | author of Penguins with People Problems | Twitter @marylauraph
quote
MaryLauraPhilpott
Margaret the First: A Novel | Danielle Dutton
post image

Truth: Usually I'm running the other direction as soon as you say, "set in the 1600s" (I'M SORRY I DON'T LIKE YE OLDEN THYMES, OK) -- but this odd little book pulled me right in. Duchess Margaret Cavendish's struggle to find her voice and her place in the world feels totally contemporary. Just read that passage.

review
MaryLauraPhilpott
Commonwealth | Ann Patchett
post image
Pickpick

Oh, this beautiful, funny, heartbreaking, wise book. If you want to take a "sick day" off work to read it straight through, I won't judge. Just be prepared for certain scenes to play over and over in your mind after you're done. (If you're American, you're buying the one on the left. If you're British, you get the cover on the right, which Ann keeps telling people is a picture of me. It is not me. I can't do my hair and drive and text like that.)

review
MaryLauraPhilpott
Commonwealth | Ann Patchett
Pickpick

Oh, this beautiful, funny, heartbreaking, wise book. If you want to take a "sick day" off work to read it straight through, I won't judge. Just be prepared for certain scenes to play over and over in your mind after you're done. (If you're American, you're buying the one on the left. If you're British, you get the cover on the right, which Ann keeps telling people is a picture of me. It is not me. I can't do my hair and drive and text like that.)

review
MaryLauraPhilpott
post image
Pickpick

Imagine the sly, surreal, feminist bookbaby of two masterful short story writers -- say, Margaret Atwood and Megan Mayhew Bergman? Then imagine they let Stephen King babysit the bookbaby. (Not for long enough to really warp the bookbaby, just enough to fill the bookbaby's head with some crazy-dark ideas.) Beams' collection brings to mind some of the greatest and most imaginative contemporary literature yet is wholly original.

5 likes1 stack add
review
MaryLauraPhilpott
The Mothers: A Novel | Brit Bennett
post image
Pickpick

Loved it. And not just because it matched my dress. Also: am I nuts or did I spy lots of little allusions to Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye?

4 likes1 stack add
review
MaryLauraPhilpott
Grace | Natashia Deon
post image
Pickpick

Holy moly. This is an *intense* read. It's life story of a girl named Josey, narrated by her mother Naomi... who is dead. Naomi was a slave in 1840s Alabama before she escaped and was later murdered. I don't think I took a breath for the first 30 pages.

4 likes1 stack add
review
MaryLauraPhilpott
post image
Pickpick

OK, here we go: First Litsy post is the last book I finished, as of yesterday. Really enjoyed this contemporary, funny, touching rendition of the immigrant quest for the American Dream. (Eleanor Roosevelt the book-beagle was oddly riveted, too, although I'm not picking up whatever scent she's detecting.) This'll be a crowd-pleaser come October.