Reading, Writing, and Me

One of my major goals for the blog this year was to chat with more authors again , so it's been beyond my wildest dreams to have the chance to interview Alison Espach , author of one of my favorite books of this year, The Wedding People . You might be familiar with the novel from it being a Read with Jenna  pick or its popularity on bookstagram, or you might have just stumbled upon it in the bookstore and been drawn to its stunning cover. I've had so many wonderful conversations with other readers who loved the book, so it was awesome to then get to talk about it with Alison herself and get some insight into how the book was written, her tip for querying writers, how writing looks both the same and different 3 books into her career, and what books she's been loving lately!  If you're not familiar with The Wedding People  yet, you're in for a treat. Check out my review to hear about why I loved it, but I'll also add the back cover copy to give you some context

All Fours  by Miranda July Overview: This novel is about a sorta-famous woman who is also a mother, a woman facing the realities of aging, and someone intensely battling a feeling of stasis. The novel begins with the premise that this woman will drive from LA to New York, in some kind of a bid to either find or change herself. Instead, she only makes it 30 minutes from home before settling into a roadside motel where she strikes up an affair with a fan who works at a rental car office down the road. In the second half of the book, the protagonist reckons with the findings of her botched roadtrip while reemerged in the confines of her normal life.  All Fours  questions the realities of modern life that are taken as given.  Overall: 3 Characters: 3  There are so many interesting ideas here, but July plays a strange game of withholding with the reader that never allows a proximity that makes the novel feel worth reading or the main character one you can fully invest in. There's a weir