Fool for Love

 

This was a good play about a couple that drives each other crazy but they keep coming back together again. The play also takes on some controversial topics like bigamy and incest. The play was all right but I have no desire to see the movie which received mixed reviews. I just don't think it would translate well to the screen. This isn't one of Sam Shepard's plays, nothing amazing like Buried Child but it's worth reading. Sam Shepard was never one to bore.

Lotta on Troublemaker Street

 

When I was in second grade I was made fun of for liking Pippi Lockstocking. I still don't care. That girl was cool. I decided to revisit Astrid Lindgren and read another one of her books. It's about a little girl named Lotta who runs away from home and lives with a neighbor.  The family is not afraid about it though and is genuinely laid back about it. But will Lotta make it through the night though? This book was short and pretty cute.

Sisters by a River

 

I wanted to read a book by an obscure female writer from the 1940s and I like Virago's selections. This book was just ok. It's about a family and it's told from the perspective of a child and the misspelling throughout the book adds to that age. It could have been better. I didn't feel like I got to know the sisters really individually. It wasn't like Little Women where I felt like I got to know the people. The personalities were kept kind of vague.  Still, this isn't the last book I'm reading that Virago published. The thought of discovering forgotten female writers from the past is too appealing to me.