#ellen meister

[iklees]

Farewell, Dorothy Parker / Ellen Meister

In haar filmreviews is Violet Epps scherp en snedig, maar in haar dagelijks leven durft ze zich niet zo expliciet te uiten. Dat heeft haar bijna de voogdij over haar nichtje gekost, na het ongeval waarbij haar zus en zwager zijn omgekomen. Tot haar grote verdriet en dat van haar nichtje, dat graag met haar tante in haar ouderlijk huis wil wonen. Violet heeft nog één kans om een goede indruk te maken en zich niet door de advocaat van de grootouders van vaders' kant opzij te laten zetten. Na een bezoekje aan het Algonquin Hotel wordt Violet bezocht door de geest van Dorothy Parker, haar grote voorbeeld. Dorothy bemoeit zich met Violet's leven en dwingt haar om ook privé haar mondje te roeren.

"I disagree," said Mrs. Parker. "I believe you're angry at yourself for making such a terrible mess of your custody case." "Spare me the analysis." "I thought people of your generation loved that sort of thing -- grand revelations of heartbreaking self-pity when you recognize your pattern of avoiding that which would give you the most pleasure." "Talk about projection," Violet mumbled. "I beg your pardon?" "Projection," she repeated. "But I guess that's a modern term -- the kind of Freudian jargon hijacked by my generation, navel-gazers that we are. Your contemporaries would just say it's the pot calling the kettle black." Dorothy Parker took a sip of her drink. "My contemporaries avoided clichés," she said. "Like you're avoiding the truth?" "How darling," Mrs. Parker said. "You're learning to parry."

Een grappig concept, goed uitgevoerd. Een leuke draai is dat het contact tussen Violet en Dorothy niet alleen bij Violet veranderingen teweeg brengt.

[farewelldorothyparker]

'Darling,' she said in her famously throaty voice, 'if this were hell, Louis B. Mayer would be tending bar.'

Dorothy Parker Drank Here by Ellen Meister

[fangirlsdilemma]

60 Books is 2019 #22: Farewell Dorthy Parker by Ellen Meister

Sometimes you read a book, and it's just not very good at all, but it's the book that you read.

Farewell Dorthy Parker is fluffy, short, kind of odd, and not particularly good.

I like fluff, I love ghost stories and I’m actually a big fan of Mrs. Parker, but this book is only 300 pages and long and is trying to do way too much in that pithy little package.

Film critic Violet’s life is kind of a mess. She’s stuck in a dead end relationship with a semi-alcoholic. She’s spent the last year…

[cereal-chiller]

She had been so vulnerable, and Norah wanted only to protect her. But that vulnerability was tied to a massive mistake, a perception of herself too damaged to love. If Norah got anything from this book, it's that we're all damaged. The tragedy is letting it define you.

Ellen Meister, Dorothy Parker Drank Here

[wdwsouthernbelle-blog]

It was more than the hurt of betrayal. It was the realization that beneath his curmudgeonly exterior there was no heart of gold. He witnessed the light leaving her eyes as the delusion vaporized and she saw the truth: she hadn't fallen in love with a misunderstood artist after all. She had fallen in love with a beast.

Dorothy Parker Drank Here by Ellen Meister

[houstonmagicalrealism]

Review: 'Dorothy Parker Drank Here,' by Ellen Meister - Minneapolis Star Tribune

Minneapolis Star Tribune Review: 'Dorothy Parker Drank Here,' by Ellen MeisterMinneapolis Star Tribune“Dorothy Parker Drank Here” is replete with the celebrated flapper-journalist's acid wit, sharp tongue and legendary one-liners. Ellen Meister's re-creation of Parker, the Algonquin Read more at http://houstonfilmscripts.rememberthealamo.info/2015/02/21/review-dorothy-parker-drank-here-by-ellen-meister-minneapolis-star-tribune/

[theirresponsiblereader]

Dorothy Parker Drank Here by Ellen Meister

Dorothy Parker Drank Here by Ellen Meister a follow-up stronger than its predecessor ★ ★ ★ 1/2

Dorothy Parker Drank Here

by Ellen Meister

Hardcover, 336 pg. G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 2015 Read: March 9 – 10, 2015 Meister’s previous novel, Farewell, Dorothy Parker, was an enjoyable though fairly predictable but well-executed tale with characters I appreciated. While I intended to track down more by Meister, I hadn’t yet. One thing I didn’t expect was to see a sequel — there was really nothing in…

[texasmagicalrealism]

Review: 'Dorothy Parker Drank Here,' by Ellen Meister - Minneapolis Star Tribune

Minneapolis Star Tribune Review: 'Dorothy Parker Drank Here,' by Ellen MeisterMinneapolis Star Tribune“Dorothy Parker Drank Here” is replete with the celebrated flapper-journalist's acid wit, sharp tongue and legendary one-liners. Ellen Read more at http://texasmagicalrealism.rememberthealamo.info/2015/02/21/review-dorothy-parker-drank-here-by-ellen-meister-minneapolis-star-tribune/

[hollywoodmagicalrealism]

Review: 'Dorothy Parker Drank Here,' by Ellen Meister - Minneapolis Star Tribune

Minneapolis Star Tribune Review: 'Dorothy Parker Drank Here,' by Ellen MeisterMinneapolis Star Tribune“Dorothy Parker Drank Here” is replete with the celebrated flapper-journalist's acid wit, sharp tongue and legendary one-liners. Ellen Meister's re-creation of Parker, the Algonquin Read more at http://hollywoodmagicalrealism.rememberthealamo.info/2015/02/21/review-dorothy-parker-drank-here-by-ellen-meister-minneapolis-star-tribune/

[peterdinklagefilmproject]

Review: 'Dorothy Parker Drank Here,' by Ellen Meister - Minneapolis Star Tribune

Minneapolis Star Tribune Review: 'Dorothy Parker Drank Here,' by Ellen MeisterMinneapolis Star Tribune“Dorothy Parker Drank Here” is replete with the celebrated flapper-journalist's acid wit, sharp tongue and legendary one-liners. Ellen Meister's re-creation of Parker, the Algonquin Read more at http://peterdinklage.rememberthealamo.info/2015/02/21/review-dorothy-parker-drank-here-by-ellen-meister-minneapolis-star-tribune/

[dorothyparkerquotes]

Ellen Meister reads from Farewell, Dorothy Parker

[sixwordmemoirss]

Not as blonde as I look.

Ellen Meister

[sangriastilettos]

Now Reading: "The Other Life" by Ellen Meister

If you could return to the road not taken...would you?

Quinn Braverman has a perfect life, with a loving husband, an adorable son, and another baby on the way.

Quinn also has an ominous secret: she knows that another version of her life exists...one in which she made totally different life choices. But she's never been tempted to switch lives-until a shocking turn of events pushes her to cross over, and she discovers the one person she thought she'd lost forever: Her mother.

But Quinn can't have both lives. Soon, she must decide which she really wants-the one she has...or the other life...

[ashgraham-blog]

Beach reads. CHECK.