Running With Scissors: a memoir<\/i> by Augusten Burroughs<\/p>\n
Well, that<\/i> was an odd childhood.<\/p>\n
My favorite scene in this book is when teenagers Augusten and his “sister” (it’s complicated) decide the ceiling in the kitchen is too low, so they rip it out. Then they decide it’s too dark, so they cut out a skylight in the roof, and use one of the side house windows to fill it, only it’s 12 inches too short. When the “father” comes into the kitchen in the morning, he steps over the rubble, makes coffee and says, “that’s quite a project you’ve got going.” They hit him up for a couple hundred dollars to finish the project, which they spend on beer. Nice.<\/p>\n
I’d heard that this story was disturbing, but I wasn’t particularly disturbed. It was an odd childhood, though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Running With Scissors: a memoir by Augusten Burroughs Well, that was an odd childhood. My favorite scene in this book is when teenagers Augusten and his “sister” (it’s complicated) decide the ceiling in the kitchen is too low, so they … Continue reading