This is not quite a straight-forward book vs TV series, because the book I read about fraudster Anna Sorokin – My Friend Anna by Rachel DeLoache Williams – was not the basis for the new Netflix series, Inventing Anna. Instead, the series was based around a feature article by Jessica Pressler (and her forthcoming book, Bad Influence).
So, read or watch? Continue reading
01. Another superb walk along the Yarra. And yes, it’s an algal bloom, but doesn’t it look incredible?! (at a billabong in Ivanhoe) Continue reading
I did away with ‘top tens’ a few years ago, and instead I finish the reading year with a recap of the books that are still speaking to me (less about four and five-star ratings, more about what has stuck). Continue reading
It’s Nonfiction November, this week hosted by Julz Reads. The task? Pair up a nonfiction book with a fiction title.
Charismatic fraudsters living the high-life – My Friend Anna by Rachel DeLoache Williams and The Talented Mr Ripley by Patricia Highsmith. Continue reading
It’s time for #6degrees. Start at the same place as other wonderful readers, add six books, and see where you end up. Continue reading
It took all my restraint to not type ‘Anna Delvey’ into Google as I was reading My Friend Anna by Rachel DeLoache Williams because, although I was vaguely aware of the outcome of Williams’s ‘Sex and the City meets Catch Me if You Can’ story, I couldn’t recall the detail. And it is the detail that makes this memoir so engrossing. Continue reading
Sample Saturday is when I wade through the eleventy billion samples I have downloaded on my Kindle. I’m slowly chipping away and deciding whether it’s buy or bye. This week, all three are newish nonfiction releases that have caught my eye. Continue reading