just read
visions of suburbia, Roger Silverstone 01/02/26
finally got round to finishing this ...
the essay on the suburban weekend: interesting and fun // the essay on tupperware (Alison J Clarke, "Tupperware: Suburbia, Sociality and Mass Consumption"): electrifying, fantastic, wow, omg, loved it, you should read it // the rest of it .... eh ...
study for obedience, Sara Bernstein 06/02/26
i enjoyed this
ok so this book reminded me a little bit of the feeling when i had no mates as a teenager and i had nothing to do so i'd walk around the town and fields and i thought i was too cool for a coat so it was freezing and i also always wore the wrong shoes so my nice trainers got muddy... in a good way !
currently reading
medieval horizons, ian mortimer
fun and chill read so far .... i am intrigued
lolllolol ll this guy has serious beef with the guy who wrote sapiens .... fight ! fight ! fight ! get her jade !
biography of x, catherine lacey
i am TRYINGGG... 3/4 of the way through fighting for my life omg dragging myself kicking and screaming to finish this book but i dont wanna i hate it im sorry
ok i like the alternate history / american civil war thing thats what interested me about this book but i feel like she gives up on it ... i truly am trying to see why everyone told me it was good ... the main character is sooo annoying and unlikeable but everyone in the book thinks they are soo cool and smart and its like guys all of you are annoying .... i get annoyed every time i pick it up again... am i the problem ? maybe this book will go to the book graveyard
Perfume, Patrick Süskind
halfway through and struggling to stay interested .............
been stuck reading this one for ages ... got stuck at an incredibly boring part, where hes just like inside his mind for ages.. dont care... but people have told me im gonna gag at the twist so i have to push through, maybe i will skip the boring bit - is that allowed? i have to hurry up cos i wanna watch the movie with my friends womp womp
books i am reading next ...
mario and the magician and other stories, thomas mann
on its way from world of books....
this was in the reading list from this in our time podcast episode i was listening to about hypnosis... i am curious ... about the mesmirising power of political leaders etc ...
wifedom, anna funder
about Eileen O'Shaughness ( Orwell's wife )
heard about this from a podcast i was listening to ... looking forward to reading but god, why is it that the books i want to read at the library always seem to only be available as gigantic huge hardbacks its not even big font or a long book its just the hardback reinforced steel cover and to be honest its so embarassing carrying it... i can't get it out discretely in a relaxed and chill way on the bus, it makes me feel like an ipad baby even though its a book... it wouldnt fit in my bag on the way home so i had to carry it round like a clutch in a very : look at me! look at me! kind of way... the picture doesnt capture how big it is its like two and a half hands ... will begin reading this when i get over the shame of it being tombstone, ipad pro sized
(podcast was , The Spanish Civil War: Fighting Facism With Hemingway and Orwell : https://www.everand.com/listen/podcast/977705500 )
diego garcia, Natasha Soobramanien and Luke Williams
described as a tragicomedy interrogating the powers of literature alongside the crimes of the British government .....
randomly picked this up at the library and read the first few pages and i put it down and walked away cos i had too much to carry home and then i kept thinking about it so i went back and got it !!!!