Daniel Blasingame Blasingame itibaren Madgule, Maharashtra, India itibaren Madgule, Maharashtra, India

I enjoyed the story and all of the action, but was a bit surprised by a couple of saucy scenes. I also felt aa bit let down by the ending. I don't feel like it really wrapped up the story for me.

Required reading! Cookie Mueller was an amazing writer with that rare gift to be genuinely poignant and screamingly funny at the same time. I don't think any of the current crop of writers who do humorous essays about their lives are fit to kiss the hem of her asymmetrical sweater dress, to be honest. It's a tragedy on so many levels that she died so young and left behind a relatively small body of work. This book collects most of the essays of her brilliant Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black plus her crazy rare chapbooks, some unreleased work, and columns she wrote for magazines. I'm only knocking off one star for the excerpts from her medical advice column because they're pretty ridiculous and scary as legit medical advice.