Lizz Free or Die
by Lizz Winstead
Rating: ***
Read 7/11/2013

I picked this up solely because I have a friend who spells her name Lizz, and I thought it would be fun to tell her I was reading this. Imagine my surprise when I found Winstead to be fascinating. I liked reading her story. She grew up around the same time I did, though her Catholic upbringing was far different, there were many cultural markers in common. Her abortion story is intense and important, NTM brave. Her parents are hilarious, the way their story plays out poignant. I haven’t really seen the shows she worked on, though I have heard of them (I don’t live in a CAVE, just a LIBRARY).
The only part that turned me off was her need to make up words and define them throughout. Seemed labored and not funny.

Well worth a look.