Tales of the city novels6/11/2023 ![]() There are real life people (and events) who feature across the series, with varying levels of disguise. ![]() Across the series (nine books, I still need to buy a copy of The Days of Anna Madrigal, although I have read it!) you’ll laugh and you’ll cry as you cover 40 years in their lives. ![]() It’s fun, it’s incredibly readible – and it’s soapy in the best way aka increasingly ridiculous and far-fetched but you go with it anyway. She moves into a boarding house run by the eccentric Anna Madrigal (she names the marijuana plants she grows in the garden) and soon her life is tangled up with the other residents of the building – Michael Tolliver, known as Mouse Mona, hippy and bi-sexual Brian, a horny lothario and Norman, the mysterious tenant of the shack on the roof. Starting in 1976, we meet Mary-Ann Singleton, who has just moved to the city from Cleveland and starts to discover a whole new world. So this is an iconic series, that started as a newspaper serial, about the lives (and loves) of a group of housemates in San Francisco. Today I’m talking about Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City Series, which I think it pretty perfect reading for the moment – as it’s episodic and starts back in the 1970s. Hello, welcome to another Friday and the latest in my new batch of Series I Love posts. ![]()
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