I am horribly late, but I did read Beautiful Boy by David Sheff. I don’t know if I enjoyed it but I did like Sheff’s writing. His story of his son’s addiction to crystal methamphetamine wasn’t exactly easy reading. He conveyed very well the sense of hopelessness and helplessness he felt, watching his son deteriorate. [...]
I suddenly realised that I haven’t actually written down what I thought about the last couple of book circle books! I don’t know what happened – I did read the books but the whole writing thing seems to have escaped me. The problem with not writing about something soon after it happens is that you [...]
I am very very late with the third book I was meant to have read for the Book Circle: April’s book, In defense of food: An eater’s manifesto by Michael Pollan. In fact, I haven’t even managed to read it. I kept putting off blogging about it, because I kept hoping that I would actually [...]