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Book 14 (of 52) – Cherry

Cherry - Mary Karr

Cherry – Mary Karr

Cherry, Mary Karr’s follow up to The Liar’s Club, picks up where the last memoir left off, with young Mary Karr heading into middle school, and takes us through her high school years.  Along the way, she enters puberty, loses her virginity, and starts abusing drugs to make it through her tortured existence.

I bought this book, and its predecessor, on November 24, 2001, and they both stayed in my “To Read” drawer until I finally broke through on The Liar’s Club last October.  To this day, I can’t explain to you why I bought them, along with Danny Bonaduce’s autobiography and a TransFormers DVD, but, after finishing Cherry, I think I am glad that I did.  I found this book much easier to get through than the previous one, probably due to the more exciting subject matter.

There’s a third memoir from Mary Karr out there, but I doubt I will be seeking it out.  Not to say I didn’t enjoy this latest foray into her upbringing, but I think I’ve had enough insight into her psyche.

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Book 15 (of 52) – The Liars’ Club

The Liar's Club - Mary Karr

The Liar’s Club – Mary Karr

I don’t have the foggiest idea how this book, a memoir about the author’s childhood in rural Texas and, briefly, Colorado, ended up in my posession, but it, and it’s sequel, have been sitting in my To Read drawer for years.  Following that same train of thought, I don’t know what finally posessed me to start reading it earlier this year, finally finishing it on a Sunday afternoon that would have been better spent outside, enjoying the last vestigaes of nice weather before winter rears its ugly head.

Mary Karr lets us in on the craziness that was her childhood, growing up with crazy parents in the oil fields of Texas, before skipping ahead at the end to the death of her father.  This was certainly not the type of book that I would normally read, but it’s good to mix things up once in a while.  We shall see how long it takes me to pick up the sequel.