Monday, April 04, 2022

Quarterly book report: What are you reading?

Mary Cassatt’s “Young Lady Reading” (1878)


Research and pleasure reading January-March:
Unrequited Infatuations by Stevie Van Zandt 😂🤨😒🤯👍
Music history, political insights, outsized ego
Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann 😍🤩😎🤯💋
Iconic once-a-decade must read
To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis 😅🤨🤓✍️👍
Old school sci fi trip to the oversoul
In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado 😅🤯😦✍️👏
Had to reread this second-person parlor trick
Going There by Katie Couric 😬🙄😲😂👍
Good-hearted, thorough autobiography
The Hiltons by J. Randy Taraborrelli 🤯😂😬🙄🤏
Bloviating take on American dynasty
Be My Guest by Conrad N. Hilton 🤓😒🥴😅🖖
My dad would love this gung ho memoir
My Story by Marilyn Monroe 🤩😟🤯😭💋
Heart-wrenching memoir of a shooting star
Wildflower by Drew Barrymore ☺️😂🤨🤐👍
Thoughtfully wacky essay format memoir
The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch/ Jeffrey Zaslow 🤓😭😂😭👍
Everything you heard is true
The Tinkerbell Hilton Diaries by Tinkerbell + D. Resi 😼😹😽✌️
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson 😂🤣🤓🤨👍
Buddhist non-attachment or whatever
Charlotte's Web by E. B. White 😍✍️✍️✍️😭
Reread this classic to my daughter in awe of the great writing
Putting the Rabbit in the Hat by Brian Cox 🤩😂😭🤓👍
Theater history, great voice, massive ego
Shortcut Your Startup by Carter/ Courtney Reum 🤓🤓😥😃👊
Surprisingly moving business primer
We're Going to Need More Wine by Gabrielle Union 😂😭🤩✍️👍
Beautiful, insightful essay format memoir
Leaving Isn't the Hardest Thing by Lauren Hough 😅😭🤓✍️👍
Had to revisit and rethink these essays
Bossypants by Tina Fey 😁😂🤩✍️👍
The real real
The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo by Amy Schumer 😂🙃🤩😫✌️
Funny, intelligent, super candid memoir
The Gifts of Imperfection by Brené Brown 🤓😭😅😬👍
Get out of my mind, Breneé Brown!
Gone to the Crazies by Alison Weaver 😳🤯😲🙁✌️
Unsettling troubled teen memoir
Will by Will Smith + Mark Manson 🤩😳🤯😒🙄🖕
Erm...didn't age well
Run, Rose, Run by James Patterson + Dolly Parton 🤩🙂🤨🤐👍
Meh but I love Dolly!
The Wind's Twelve Quarters by Ursula K. Le Guin 🤩✍️✍️✍️👍
Yes, queen
Happy Accidents by Jane Lynch 🙃😅😑🤐🤏
Workmanly celeb memoir
Girl Walks into a Bar by Rachel Dratch 😅😬🤐😆✌️
Workmanly celeb memoir
Blonde by Joyce Carol Oates 🤩✍️✍️✍️💋
Transcendent, stunning, wow, just kill me now writing
Our Eyes at Night 😋✍️😲😭👍
Last Ghost book 3 made me want to revisit book 1
The Long Winter by Laura Ingalls Wilder 😍😍😍✍️✍️
Beloved once-a-decade comfort read