ERIN READS AN EXCERPT FROM 'GRIEF GIRL: MY TRUE STORY'
Music
GRIEF GIRL Soundtrack:
**AFTER the Accident**:
The Police/ Adam and the Ants/ Blondie/ DEVO/ Sid Vicious (My Way)/ AC/DC/ Prince (Purple Rain)/ The Motels/ Janis Ian (Seventeen)/
**BEFORE the Accident**: Neil Diamond (Hot August Night)/ Sister Sledge (We Are Family)/ ELO/ The Muppet Movie Soundtrack/ Early Barry Manilow/ Boz Scaggs (Lido Shuffle)/ Sweet (Ballroom Blitz)/ Ram Jam (Black Betty)/ Silver Convention/ ABBA/ The Flying Lizards (Money)
Movies
I'm a sucker for OLD MOVIES... It Happened One Night/ The Philadelphia Story/ Holiday/ Now Voyager/ Hush, Hush Sweet Charlotte (actually, any B&W movie starring Bette Davis)/ The Magnificent Ambersons/ The Thin Man/ Separate Tables/ Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf/ Sweet Smell of Success/ The Graduate/ Holiday/ Ship of Fools/ Ryan's Daughter/ Soylent Green... FOREIGN MOVIES... Aguirre, The Wrath of God/ Ali: Fear Eats the Soul/ Repulsion/ Fitzcarraldo/ The 400 Blows/ The Tenant... MODERN MOVIES: Waiting for Guffman/ Muriel's Wedding/ Ghost World/ Elephant/ Beloved/ Team America World Police/ Lost in Translation/ The Virgin Suicides/ Little Miss Sunshine
Television
The Office (English version)/ Ali G/ Reno 911/ Dexter/ Kath and Kim/ Summer Heights High
Books
So many, so I'll start now and add more later... FICTION: Cloudstreet/ Crime and Punishment/ Madame Bovary/ Perfume/ Beloved/ Paradise/ The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole/ Golden Days/ Amsterdam/ Portnoy's Complaint/ The Breast/ Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close/ Human Oddities/ Bel Canto/ Riders in the Chariot/ Child of My Heart/ The Color Purple/ Here They Come/ The Peculiar Memories of Thomas Penman/ Children On Their Birthdays (Truman Capote short story)/ The Sun Also Rises... MEMOIRS: The Year Of Magical Thinking/ Dreaming: Hard Luck and Good Times in America/ Truth and Beauty/ The Kiss/ The Liars' Club/ Smashed/ Running With Scissors/ The Burn Journals/ Prozac Nation/ Goat/ Girl Interrupted/ Seducing the Demon/ Queen of the Oddballs... YOUNG ADULT and YOUNGER: The Book Thief/ Speak/ Sold/ Stop Pretending/ The House of the Scorpion/ A Great and Terrible Beauty/ Inexcusable/ The Great Good Thing/ Confessions of a Closet Catholic/ King Dork/ I Don't Want to be Crazy/ The Year of Secret Assignments/ Angus, Thongs and Full Frontal Snogging...AUTHORS I adore: Carolyn See, Jeanette Winterson, Patrick White, Phillip Roth, Milan Kundera, Kate Grenville, Helen Garner, Ian McEwan, Johnathan Safran Foer, Joan Didion, Toni Morrison, Tim Winton, Peter Carey, Lorrie Moore, Aimee Bender, A.M. Homes...
RECENT READS: The Secret River by Kate Grenville - BRILLIANT!
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Who I'd like to meet: Anyone out there who would like to share their story of grief and/or depression....
Helen Garner/ Kate Grenville/ Tim Winton/ Joan Didion/ Toni Morrison...
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Erin, It's so nice to hear from you - Adam's been filling me in about your new job and I'm SO relieved that you're doing what you love. I can't wait to hear more about your adventures when you come to visit. We'll make a regular 24 hour party of it. I'm so happy your move went well!! Thank you for dropping a note... I'm always thinking about you! Good luck keeping Adam out of trouble. Take care and much love, m
just the usual school work. i tell u what. yr 10 is sooooo hard. i have h/w non stop. other than that, just hanging out with the family. how are you? hows the book going? xoxo
I miss you toooooo!!!! I was just thinking about you because I was going through the young adult catalogs and there your memoir was and I was astonished and happy that you were in my life:)
thanks 4 the add...i love your book i when thru a similar situation when i as 11..n even tho its been 10 years your book is just so good to know the feelings n thoughts i had back then n still are normal!! thanks for writting your story 4 all of us to read:)
hey erin, how are you going? havent spoken to you in a while so thought id send you some love :)/ how is your new book com ing along? i cant wait :) i hope you are well, luv ya xoxox
Oh my god, I asked for your book for my birthday, and I finally got it =D. I've waited for a very long to get your book >.<. I've read some of it, and I love it! It made me cry though...
