Can You Ever Forgive Me?

Can You Ever Forgive Me? Memoirs of a Literary Forger
By Lee Israel
9781416588672 129p

Thought it would be better, more interesting. Basically, her cat gets sick and to pay the medical bills she forges a letter. You know, instead of waitressing or working in a bookstore or as a bartender or any of the other multitude of second jobs available in the city. So, she forges a letter, sells it, the cat gets better without treatment. And she decides to start forging more letters, tons in the next few years, making her living at this. Steals letters from libraries and replaces them with fakes. She's suspected, hires an accomplice, they're both caught, she's let off with probation. Umm, huh? #1- she's still saying it was the poor cat that led her to it in the first place, having to get him care. Yet she didn't, because he got better! She just liked the money. #2- why not get a real job? #3- spent all that energy and imagination on other people's letters, she could have even found a writing job with that effort. #4- she barely brings any other people into it, she's pretty egotistical. #5- barely thinks she did anything wrong, actually only seems to give lipservice to that and doesn't think she did any wrong. (ie when she talks at the end about the dealers coming out ahead money-wise. She doesn't seem to realize that people lost money on her antics, whether it was the dealers or someone else doesn't matter, the money came from somewhere.)
Okay, fed up with her, I'm done.
6/10