Wow. The brilliant Bryan Fuller who did one of my favorite TV shows ever, Pushing Daisies, is set to at least do a pilot of the Munsters for NBC.
It’s being touted as a cross between two other shows I love: Modern Family and True Blood. Thrilling!
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Pushing Daisies’ Bryan Fuller to Revive Munsters
Posted in oldies but goodies, Television, tagged Brian Fuller, Bryan Fuller, Bryan Fuller Munsters, Bryan Fuller Pushing Daisies, Munsters NBC, munsters reboot, New Munsters, the munsters on September 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The Glass Castle, a Memoir
Posted in book reviews, books, memoirs, reading, tagged books, glass castle, glass castle jeannette walls, glass castles, jeannette walls, memoirs, misery memoirs, the glass castle on September 3, 2010 | 4 Comments »
The woman at the used bookstore by my house recommended The Glass Castle as “a book for people who don’t even like to read.”
I flipped through the first few pages and didn’t buy it, but I couldn’t get the first image — a woman in New York looking out of her taxi window and seeing her homeless mom rummaging through a dumpster — out of my head, so the next day I went back and coughed up the $7.
I love this book; it’s one of the best I’ve read this year and I’ve been reading a lot.
It’s about four kids and the extremely capricious, bright, destitute parents who drag them all over the country. Narrated by Jeannette Walls, the middle sister, these plucky little Dickensian kids made me want to live in their dirt-poor reality.
The Glass Castle is also a lesson in how to write a memoir. So often people think that if they write a bunch of horrible things that happened to them, other people will automatically relate.
It’s the resilience in the face of misery that people are relating to, though, not the misery.
