My Life as a Villainess

Essays

By: Laura Lippman

Narrated by: Laura Lippman

New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman, a journalist for many years, collects here her recent essays exploring motherhood as an older mom, her life as a reader, her relationships with her parents, friendship, and other topics that will resonate with a large audience. Her voice is wry and relatable, her takes often surprising.

Meet the Woman Behind the Books…

In this collection of new and previously published essays, New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman offers her take on a woman's life across the decades. Her childhood and school years, her newspaper career, her experiences as a novelist—Lippman finds universal touchstones in an unusual life that has as many twists as her award-winning crime fiction.

Essays include:

· Men Explain The Wire to Me

· Game of Crones

· My Life as a Villainess

· My Father’s Bar

· The 31st Stocking

These candid essays offer long-time readers insight into the experiences that helped Lippman become one of the most successful crime novelists of her generation.

Compelling, self-aware, thought-provoking

Author narration is hit or miss. Laura Lippman is a hit. She’s got a beautiful voice. In the Texas section, her narration has a twang and swagger that I stumbled over, but she was clearly having a good time reading. She really knocks the narration out of the park… I listened to this almost straight through. I struggle with her writing about age and beauty and femininity – we’re just on very different pages about these topics, but I think a lot of readers will connect, I was extremely moved by the friend-breakup essay. The frank ways in which this author depicts her flaws and shortcomings is refreshing. I’m so glad I read this book.

I’m a villainess too.

I liked the moments when it felt like she was speaking to us rather than reading it to us. Since they were her essays, it seemed like it would come from her in a more story telling way than her reading a script. More conversational. But the stories were well written and very entertaining. I related to many parts and enjoyed hearing them.