Rory’s Book Club: Rescuing Patty Hearst
Posted by Sarakastic on Dec 12, 2007 in Book Reviews | 3 comments
My name is Sara & I don’t always read book jackets. This was the case of “Rescuing Patty Hearst: Memories from a Decade Gone Mad” One of the subtitles is also Growing Up Sane in a Decade Gone Mad.
I picked up the book, read the first page, closed the book & thought “Crap, that’s really good”. The entire book was on the same level. Then I finished reading it, looked at the book jacket again & saw that it was written by Virginia Holman. I thought “The girl’s name in the story is Virginia, could it be?” I finally put together that it was a memoir. In fact it’s one of the best memoirs I’ve ever read. It reads like a novel, serves me right for not reading the book jacket.
On my own poptart scale I give it a 
And WHY didn’t you tell me about this sooner?! A memoir with my name in it?! I’m all over it!
Sorry, I’ll do better next time
Ms. Rory,
Good afternoon Ma’am. I am applying to college and one of the essay topics is choose your own book for the Freshman Book Program. Do you think this is of an appropriate level or will I look foolish suggesting it? Thank you so much, have a great day!
Very respectfully,
Alecia Drenckhahn