In our final full ep of the Meryl Season™ we follow Our Lady of the Pod to Monterey, CA, where she’s doing the most on Big Little Lies. But before we get there we discuss “Chick Lit” (or should we say "beach reads"?) and do a quick stopover in Australia to visit the works and (extremely boring) life of Liane Moriarty.

Books mentioned: 

Liane Moriarty: Nine Perfect Strangers, Truly Madly Guilty, Big Little Lies; Judith Krantz, Scruples; Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones’s Diary; Catherine Alliott, The Old Girl Network.

Resources: 

• Judith Krantz obituary
• Jennifer Weiner profile in the New Yorker.
• James Wood’s takedown of The Goldfinch
• Liane Moriarty interview here
• Indiewire on Season two of BLL
• An example of one of Meryl’s wild choices in BLL2

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