March, 2022: Sideswiped
The last day of March found me as an unwilling and unwitting participant in a fender-bender. Doesn't that sound like too cute and trivial of a phrase? The impact really REALLY rattled my cage. I think it rattled all the words out of me. But up till then, March was a stellar month, especially for reading. I can't think why it decided to give me the finger on its way out.
What I read:
And Never Let Her Go - Ann Rule. Nonfiction/True Crime.
The Lincoln Highway - Amor Towles. Novel. (audiobook)
Home Baked: My Mom, Marijuana, and the Stoning of San Francisco - Alia Volz. Memoir/Cultural History.
Mrs. March - Virginia Feito. Novel.
The Dressmaker - Kate Alcott. Novel.
Born With Teeth - Kate Mulgrew. Memoir.
What Were The Salem Witch Trials? - Joan Holub. Nonfiction.
Half-Empty - David Rakoff. Essays/Memoir. (audiobook)
My very favorite read for March was Home Baked. No one recommended it to me; I found it while browsing the shelves at the library. It's perfect. If I see this book in a bookstore, I will buy it. Alia Volz expertly weaves her own family history into the larger canvas of 1970s and 1980s San Francisco. Her writing is beautiful and audacious just like her mother, Meridy Volz who popularized selling marijuana brownies. She first got San Francisco stoned in the 1970s, then used the brownies to bring pain relief to AIDS patients in the 1980s. I know that Home Baked will be one of the re-reads of my life.
2 comments:
I'm glad to hear you are okay! I was in a fenderbender once almost 20 years ago but I still remember how shook up I was by the incident, even though nobody got hurt.
Happy that you are OK, Susan. That kind of thing is always upsetting and scary. I was T-Boned by a drunk driver (at 10:30 in the morning) five years ago and the psychological scars were with me longer than the physical injuries.
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