Maria Flook

Not for the faint-hearted, Maria Flook’s memoir, First Person Female, tells a novelist’s life through a novelist’s loves, betrayals, affairs and one-night stands, presenting a determinedly female point of view, and fighting proudly to be seen for who she is in a world of famous men.

A longtime affair with an editor provides a recurring thread to hold the story together. Meanwhile short chapters are threaded like beads, each forming its own enticing essay on topics as varied as Gauguin’s “falsehood of truth” or the unyielding reality of a son’s cancer diagnosis. Cool analogies, absorbing metaphors, and a wealth of literary name-dropping and quotes, all surround nuggets of wisdom for writers, advice for success-seekers, and incautious glimpses through the closed bedroom doors of motels, hotels and homes.

In the end, the woman who stands first, whose person comes first, and whose femininity is so fiercely prominent, reveals herself as a mother who cares and a woman whose honest relationships matter more than the lies she’s contrived, the grafts of childhood finally laid to rest in the host of motherhood.

Disclosure: I was given a preview edition by the publisher and I offer my honest review.… (plus d'informations)

Invisible Eden: A Story of Love and Murder on Cape Cod by Maria Flook
Christa Worthington, famous fashion writer that lives in Truro, MA on the cape and about her life and her work.
Love the talk of the coast and washashores, lobstering on the island and living year round on the cape.
The story is about the murder and gives you many options as to who it might have been. She was unmarried and had a boyfriend but she also
has a past in town as well. Love the history of the place, never knew it all and lives lost on the seas of those who had fished from there.
I don't recall that she had left a daughter behind either, it was just a sad story on the news and I did follow who did it...
Liked the eye disease discussions.
I received this book from National Library Service for my BARD (Braille Audio Reading Device).… (plus d'informations)