Books!

[slyvermont]

"The Dead Beat: Lost Souls, Lucky Stiffs, and the Perverse Pleasures of Obituaries (P.S.)" by Marilyn Johnson: I love learning about parallel universes, and this is one: people obsessed with obituaries. This book has one of my favorite all-time lines from a book, which came from an obituary of a Mormon:

“After mentioning that Allred was

Comments

[jedishampoo]

McKie (the obit writer) referred to one of the wives as ‘his better eighth.’”

Haha!

"White Oleander," by Janet Fitch

Yeech, it sounds scary...real-life scary. I remember there being a movie a few years ago; wonder if it's the same story.