For lovers of memoir: actor and musician Minnie Driver has added author to her resume. Managing Expectations, which sounds to me like a self-help book, is really about Driver learning to manage her own expectations about family, men, and her career. The surprise for me was that Driver is funny.
The subtitle is A Memoir in Essays; the text goes from her early childhood to the 2018 fire in Malibu that spared her home and finally a lengthy section about her mother’s death. This isn’t a juicy tell all; of her relationships we generally get only the ending and aftermath. Nor are there many photographs, but the prose and the story are excellent.
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What I’m ReadingI began working in libraries as a seventh grader, courtesy of scoliosis. My orthopedic surgeon wrote me a pass to miss gym class, so I began working in the school library to feed my love of reading. Even after my surgery to correct the curvature, I kept getting out of gym to work in my high school library and then in my college library (for pay, at last!).
So began my eventual career as a college reference librarian—after a detour into teaching high school English. Later I worked for an educational publisher before going back to libraries.
I have a reading and writing life now. I devour both fiction and nonfiction, and will tell you about some of my favorite reads, both old friends and new discoveries.
Here's some library-themed music to get you in the mood.
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