![]() The Story: This is the genesis of Connelly’s Lincoln Lawyer series, so named for the protagonist Mickey Haller, a criminal defense attorney who offices in the backseat of a Town Car. I devoured this as an audiobook, narrated by Adam Grupper, and it was a perfect companion for chore completion and commuting. I maintained subscriptions to both The New Yorker and US Weekly and binged on The Biggest Loser, rather than The Sundance Channel.Īnd, thank goodness I am no longer suffering from Literary Elitism because during my snobby period, I never – NEVER – would have downloaded Michael Connelly’s The Lincoln Lawyer , which I recently found to be both enormously pleasurable and smartly plotted. ![]() But by the time I got to grad school, I had embraced my true identity as a literary omnivore. And, okay, I did look down my nose at my mom’s Dick Francis and John Grisham novels. I played along with Jane Austen movie adaptations, post-modernism, and poetry collections from the basement of Half-Price Books. ![]() The situation peaked during undergrad, when half the people in my English classes wore gauzy scarves and prattled insufferably about reading Dante in their leisure time. ![]() True confession: I’m a recovering book snob. ![]()
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