I’d never heard of Robert Hellenga; I didn’t think a book with the name ‘Snakewoman of Little Egypt’ would hold any appeal for me at all. Carolyn See Read Quote
Ishmael Beah was born and spent his childhood in Sierra Leone as that sad but beautiful West African country was ravaged by a civil war that left some 50,000 dead between 1991 and 2002. He was a child soldier for a while, then, through extraordinary circumstances, was set free of that life. Carolyn See Read Quote
What is ‘cool,’ anyway? Maybe it’s Warne Marsh, almost totally obscure and penniless, coming in late to a fourth-rate Hollywood nightclub, playing like an angel with a couple of sidemen, but never speaking to or even acknowledging another human being. Carolyn See Read Quote
I’ve been at the very bottom of poverty, and it’s not so bad. It’s even kind of interesting. You can live there with a certain amount of style. Carolyn See Read Quote
If you are in any way squeamish or genteel, skip ‘Gillespie and I.’ If you’d like to know a little more about the seamy side of the human condition, by all means, pick this one up. Carolyn See Read Quote
