postcards from the edge by carrie fisher

I do not think it was based on a true story. It was about some hedgehogs who need to get some apples up a hill to make a pie, so they roll on them and the apples stick on their spines. It will make you wince and howl.Įdith Holden’s The Hedgehog Feast, which I pronounced “fee-ast”. It has the best description of someone trying to stay off drugs but ending up taking drugs. It’s a tonic of a book – about addicts in rehab, acting, mothers, fame and Hollywood. Postcards from the Edge by Carrie Fisher. These are my feeding/wiping/dicking about in the garden years. Take your pick off my teetering TBR pile! I have two children under five. The scene where they try to get into Berghain, the exclusive nightclub, is priceless. They are salty girls and the book is full of delicious layers. It’s about two female American art students in Berlin. I was lucky enough to see an early proof of Other People’s Clothes by Calla Henkel, which will be published this summer. It also tells you how to eat a mango for maximum mango satisfaction. I learned so much about race and how to talk about race reading it. An exquisitely written memoir about race, fatherhood, courage and food.

Nikesh Shukla's memoir Brown Baby is like a clever friend in your earīrown Baby by Nikesh Shukla. My husband gave me this graphic novel and it awakened me to the concept of the mental load, which is basically all the stuff women do for free in their heads. The Mental Load: A Feminist Comic by Emma. It spurs me on to write good sentences when I lose heart. I often dip into the Phillips when I need a style injection.

Problems by Jade Sharma and Fast Lanes by Jayne Anne Phillips are two books I hugely admire that you don’t hear talked about so much.

This book made me want to write about intense female relationships. An old frenemy introduced me to it, which is terribly apt. The book that had the greatest influence on my writingĬat’s Eye by Margaret Atwood. Funny, heartbreaking, heart-expanding, everything. The story of a girl in care with wild dreams. But if you’re asking which book I most admire I would say The Panopticon by Jenni Fagan. I honestly don’t wish I’d written anyone else’s book, how could I? Books are ripped from your soul, and your soul alone.

Postcards from the edge by carrie fisher