Joyride by Susan Orlean - I've only read one of Orlean's books in addition to seeing the film Adaptation (based on her novel The Orchid Thief) so I wasn't sure if I was the right audience for this book, but once things got moving I really enjoyed it. There were some beautifully written lines that I bookmarked and will add to my commonplace book. The memoir really highlighted a theme she described in her own writing of finding topics or people that seem ordinary ("hiding in plain sight") and then really getting into them and finding something fascinating. As she writes: "My task, always, is to override your misgivings, to keep you t pinned to the page long enough that you fall in fully, and then you become as captivated as I am in this unlikely story..." I appreciated what she shared about storytelling and writing and the evolution of the literary world over the course of her career. Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for the ARC.
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