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Currently reading a third time because it’s just so yummy. i read it the first time in a day granted I was in rehab. Eve babitz is the fucking goat and forever underrated. OG it girl and tortured artist literally female Ernest Hemingway With a dash of hunter Thompson heaping spoon of Joan didion. Fiction based in reality like a girl moveable feast. I think I like it so much bc the main character is me coded tbh but the way she says so much in so little is insane and it’s hard to believe it’s not written recently bc it feels so vivid
Nov 3, 2023
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This nineteen seventies memoir by Barbara Gordon recalls her addiction to Valium and subsequent break with reality in a breezy second-wave feminist tone that, while not politically correct exactly, sets the stage for the kind of female confessional culture that I slid into. It’s a sad book, a funny book, a book you may want to read if only to understand where the upwardly mobile went to lunch in New York in the late nineteen seventies.
Jan 3, 2023
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I hadn't read a novel in about 45 years (I only care about stuff that is true) but I absolutely fell in love with this book and truly could not put it down. Nolan's novel is about obsession, sex, love and booze and boy addiction-- all the hits. I've never brought a book (or myself) onto the elliptical, but cut to me last month at Equinox absolutely devouring this book while taking little slidey steps to and fro. By the way, last week I saw a girl on the treadmill with her hair down?????? Someone send an ambulance!
Jul 29, 2021
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kind of hate this book i’m reading, Chelsea Girls by Eileen Myles, it’s just like so self aggrandizing and smug. she keeps cursing like she’s talking to me in a loud bar about only herself.
hate it
love to read it
Jan 30, 2024
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A lost art it seems
Jan 23, 2024
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If letterboxd is social media so be it! Flex ur corny takes on otessa moshfehg. you can also join groups ex: “unpretentious Joan didion lovers”
also motivates me to read too w lists and progress logs etc
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Nov 10, 2023