Anybody read Ann Tyler?

Is this a lesbian thread?

Breathing Lessons was a very entertaining book. I think there was a TV movie made of it as well

Read The Accidental Tourist. It's great, better than Breathing Lessons. She's a very appealing writer.

Anne.

I’ve read a ton of her stuff.

The Accidental Tourist is a masterpiece.

Dinner At The Homesick Restaurant and Searching For Caleb are even better.

Breathing Lessons is a riot (for Tyler). I remember laughing and laughing. There was a movie that as R2 — a Hallmark Hall Of Fame production, yet. Joanne Woodward and James Garner. Perfectly cast. A terrific story. So Tyler. I loved everything about it.

I also liked Ladder of Years (though it’s the last one I read).

Oh! I liked A Patchwork Planet, too. That’s a good one.

It’s terrific. The book is better. But this is a great companion piece.

I remember enjoying Saint Maybe quite a bit.

[quote]Is this a lesbian thread?

No, it's a Datalounge thread.

She's a fabulous writer. The neanderthals who make up the public do not deserve her.

R4/R5 here. R7, Saint Maybe is a personal favorite (also made into a movie by Hallmark Hall of Fame).

I'm from Baltimore. She is one of the few good things to come out of this hellhole.

She rarely gives interviews but in her latest it was revealed she had left her longtime Baltimore house for an assisted living home. Made me sad.

She's in a Quaker retirement community. Not, to my knowledge, an assisted living community.

Accidental Tourist was wonderful. I think I read Breathing Lessons. That tells you something.

talent runs in the family. I love her sister Bonnie's music.

I read Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant and A Patchwork Planet aeons ago. They're well-written, obviously, but I remember coming away from both of them feeling depressed.

She always creates the weirdest professions for her characters.

As a teen, I was jealous of these fuckers who could survive taking down christmas trees.

I have every book of hers and I've read them multiple times, she's my favorite author.

R18, are her very early books good too? I thought “Homesick Restaurant” was her first but I was wrong.

Oddly, her books in Amazon only date 4 stars mostly, some even lower. Considering that even crap can get 4.5 stars, there must be people who don’t “get” her for some reason though it’s not that hard. Maybe it’s the quirkiness.