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July 2024

bad blood- john carreyrou

read like a thriller. very interesting and made me want to look more into malpractice/medical law. the story is tied together by actually looking up pics og elizabeth holmes and too see that the steve jobs emulation was not an exaggeration in the slightest

The Pursuit of Love - Nancy Mitford

I am once again surprised at how a modern classic can be funny- I did not know anything about the Mitfords prior to reading this, however now I think I've fallen into a rabbit hole. Made me tear up towards the end. Obviously wouldn't be a posh classic without racism, might give the show a try, Andrew Scott is in it.

The Hearing Trumpet - Leonora Carrington

I did not know anything about Carrington or that this was magical realism which I usually dislike. I also dislike surrealist art, I think- so I was pleasantly surprised when I loved this and laughed out loud. I rarely find books funny- especially those which describe themselves as so- but it seems as though people in different eras were actually capable of humor.

Nuclear War: A Scenario - Annie Jacobsen

Filled with so much interesting info - I especially loved the history lesson parts the most. It did get repetitive at times and lost me but for the most part it was so engaging and peculiar to read given that I kept wondering why there were even that many protocols or caring about hierarchies or a sense of duty when destruction was assured.

June 2024

The Outsiders - S.E. Hinton

I just do not like YA. I think it was full of cliches because it started those cliches but I'm not so sure as I don't read this teen rebel genre. It definitely showed that she wrote this when she was so young, every character was just a caricature and I didn't feel anything for anyone. Also full of men. Ew.

The Road - Cormac McCarthy

At first I was not vibing with it all then the more I read the bleaker and more interesting it got. The mother's speech was so raw, showing that this genre of westerns is male dominated for a reason. It is not a woman's world, she would not survive men's cruelty...

A Streetcar Named Desire - Tennessee Williams

Reading this and watching the 2014 performance was traumatizing to say the least. It was very funny at times. I loved it when Blanche went on a whole monologue about Stanley's ugliness and his coming from the stone age. The characters so well written which is why it was haunting and too real and raw...