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Read for a book club. Was a quick read. Boyfriend and I read it in an evening passing it back and forth.

5-26-21: My 55th finished book of 2021! A quick read about the author, Lee Israel‘s life of crime as a forger of letters written by famous people such as Dorothy Parker and Noel Coward. She is funny and tells a good story. The movie stars Melissa McCarthy and is equally enjoyable. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ 👍🏼📖#️⃣5️⃣5️⃣

Oh my goodness! I cringed. This is one of the depressing passages...

Funny, incredible (at times depressing) story of Lee Israel's success, failure and her literary forgery business. She wrote (forged) and sold over 300 letters before she got caught. I read the book because I watched the movie on the plane last week. I had never heard of Lee Israel before. The movie is entertaining as is the book but also a fascinating, painful portrait of a thief and an exceptional, lonely, highly intelligent and talented writer.

She was hilarious and did crazy things in desperation. But I feel like she got a slap on the wrist. I'm curious to see how her story is portrayed in the movie.

One finished, next up!

Next up, this shortie for the ‘under 150 pages‘ prompt of the Magical Reading Challenge. Originally I wanted to go for Alchemist (did all my owls), but I‘m not going to get enough reading time so Auror it is. #magicalreadingchallenge #newts2019 #auror

This is one of my Read Harder 2019 books. It's about a non-violent true crime that I thought would be perfect for a reading challenge to begin with. Its is interesting for both the crime and the writing. Israel has a great style that is entertaining and not too serious. She knows where she went wrong and isn't afraid to poke a little fun at herself while admitting how things went down. It's a short little memoir too, at just under 3 hours. ⠀

I agree with some of the other reviews on this. The author shows very little remorse for what she did. I would do anything for my cat but I would also try to find any legit job instead of putting all that time in for forgery. Especially since she still seemed strapped for cash. I found her hard to tolerate . Maybe the movie is better?

Ever since reading Catch Me If You Can I have loved con men stories so when this list was recommended by Book Riot I added almost all the books. Any others they left off?

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A rare case of the movie being better than the book for me! I still enjoyed this weird little foray into Lee Israel and her celebrity forgery business. It's so interesting to see how proud she was of her letter-writing, attributing her skill at it to her background as a biographer and how very little remorse she expresses for her crimes. A quick, interesting read! #queerbooks

Another one I watched earlier this week, again not up for best picture, but for best actress. Melissa McCarthy definitely played a great part and against her normal type. I was sucked into this story and found myself rooting for the criminals, even though I knew it couldn‘t end well. Another interesting film, based on a nonfiction book (that I really should read) and about writing and a woman writer this year.

#Oscars2019

Great book & movie!

Just saw this movie and it was simply fantastic. Wow. Now I want to read the book! 🎞📚

I'm late to the game but just saw this movie last night. I really loved it! Has anyone read the book? I'm eager to now but there is a major wait at my library for it! 📽️📚

I was hoping to finish this one as my last #24in48 read, but #TrickyCat has other plans. #CatsOfLitsy

I reserved this book at the library the day I saw the movie! Melissa McCarthy was fabulous in playing author Lee Israel, who after a declining literary career, begins forging fake letters written by famous writers in order to make some extra cash. After selling over 300 fake letters to collectors, her #masquerade comes under suspicion and the FBI eventually get involved. I can't wait to read about the ordeal from her perspective.
#musicalnewyear

I'm glad this book was short, because otherwise i'm not sure I would have finished it. Israel is self-absorbed and unrepentant, and I feel she didn't receive nearly the punishment she deserved.

Positively, I can count this book as a "book about a reader or writer" for #LitsyLoveBingo and "unlikable character" for #NonFiction2019. Also, "I" for the #LitsyAtoZ challenge.

This was a quick read of an interesting true story that I mostly picked up because it is now a Melissa McCarthy movie and if she was compelled by the story...

I was ready to be done halfway through only because the tiny print of the the forged copies of letters was annoyingly difficult to read and Israel‘s voice is dry. I‘ll still see the movie though; surely Hollywood has taken the story from Helvetica to Script.

This movie was quite a bit better than I expected tbh

I might have enjoyed the movie more in this case....

#BOTM #BookMail and #BookHaul today. I am incredibly behind on books and have a hundred more I could read before I have any business opening these, but I can‘t help myself. #IHaveAProblem

Opened my New Yorker and saw this . Checked out the trailer ,looks really good.#bookishmovies

This was a quick read (two hours give or take) that was definitely entertaining. I will say though I‘m not sure how I feel about it. I vacillated between amusement and frankly a bit of contempt. It‘s fun to imagine what a certain writer might have thought about one thing or another but her actions were really reprehensible. Perhaps it‘s unkind to say but I couldn‘t help but think: it‘s no wonder people aren‘t taking your calls. Verdict? So-So

Movie of this book coming next month to theaters. I haven‘t heard of the book of the person but the movie looks really good.