Nan McCarthy

author of Since You Went Away, Chat, Connect, Crash, & Live ’Til I Die

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Found this in a used bookstore and even though this copy was torn & tattered, I couldn’t resist. An intense legal thriller / courtroom drama, Jonathan Harr’s 1995 A Civil Action tells the story of Woburn Massachusetts, a small town where several children died from leukemia caused by water contaminated by corporations dumping toxic sludge into the ground. The book follows the real-life court case which took place in the 1980s, centering on Jan Schlichtmann, the attorney who represented the families, risking everything he owned and nearly sacrificing his own sanity in the process. If you love legal stuff, here’s 500 pages chock-a-block full of behind-the-scenes lawyerly shenanigans and epic courtroom showdowns. So. Much. Corruption. And not just from the corporations—even the judge seemed complicit. No wonder Schlichtmann nearly lost his mind trying this case. A Civil Action won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Non-Fiction and was made into a movie starring John Travolta. Haven’t seen the movie, but now that I’ve finished the book, I’m curious. #ACivilAction #JonathanHarr #legalthriller #courtroomdrama #booktofilm #booksandmovies #lovetoread #summerreading
Oh were you trying to read that? #catsandbooks #catsofinstagram #hushpuppy #catsitting #grandkitty
Fun times with my sis. #HandyBluesfest #SandyRunLake #familytime #muchneededbreak
We’ve done a lot of moving and we’ve had a lot of shitty movers but these guys were definitely not shitty. And I know that harp is Ireland’s coat of arms but now I’ve got a hankering for an ice-cold Guinness. 🚚☘️🏡🍺 #OConnorsMoving #IrishKnowHow #BestMoversEver #LocalKCBusiness #BrooksideMovers #waybetterthanmilitarymovers
#frontporchview #citylivin #kansascity #kcmo #countrysidekc
Almost gave up on this about 50 pages in but glad I stuck with it. Emma Cline’s The Girls is a surprisingly substantive coming-of-age story with a gripping plot and well-rounded characters. Told from the POV of a middle-aged woman looking back on that time when she was 14 and became involved with a Manson-like cult, The Girls surprised me with its psychological insights into how people get drawn into cults. The parallels to the 1969 Manson murders are what initially attracted me to this book—as a 13 year-old I gobbled up Vincent Bugliosi’s 1974 true-crime book about the murders, Helter Skelter. But Cline’s fictionalized story delves deeply into the relationships young women have—with their parents, with men, and most importantly, with other women. I liked it a lot. • #TheGirls #EmmaCline #historicalfiction #MansonMurders #HelterSkelter #lovetoread
35 years married to this guy. Chicago, Memphis, Okinawa, Washington DC, Denver, Kansas City. I’d go anywhere, as long as he’s by my side.
Birdwatching. #bestspotinthehouse #catsofinstagram #martini #blackcat #rescuecat #blackcatrescue #lovespringtime
Because anyone not from NYC or LA is obviously podunk. 🙄 #TheGirls #EmmaCline #stereotypesinfiction

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