What Are You Reading?

[cestmagique]

Empire Falls

 

[MulletProof]

Mary Masayo Doi - Gesture, Gender, Nation: Dance and Social Change in Uzbekistan.

Such a fun virtual trip full of details about Uzbek culture.. wonder why this person hasn’t published more..

 

[cestmagique]

Nightbitch by Rachel Yoder

 

[eugenius]

"Liarmouth: A Feel-Bad Romance" by John Waters.

 

[kissmesweet]

At the moment, I'm reading Persuasion by Jane Austen!

 

[susseinmcswanny]

"Loaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz.

Interesting but also we're f*cked lol

 

[cestmagique]

Educated by Tara Westover

 

[KoV]

At the moment, I'm reading Persuasion by Jane Austen!

Tempted to read this before the Netflix adaptation comes out in July

 

[Deleted member 116957]

Vie rêvée by Thadée Klossowski de Rola (not as juicy as I was expecting and kind of boring)
&
The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West

(do people still use GoodReads?? I've been using my account more lately, but I want to follow more people!)

 

[kissmesweet]

Tempted to read this before the Netflix adaptation comes out in July

I'm quite intrigued by the Netflix adaptation. A lot of people are complaining about it online. However, the first-time film director, Carrie Cracknall, directed many phenomenal theatre productions in the UK, so I do have high hopes.

 

[cestmagique]

A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear by Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling-- quite a bit funnier than it has any right to be! I love stranger-than-fiction books like this.

 

[Blio]

What are you reading right now?

I'm reading a few Barbara Cartland novels all at the same time!

Yoritomo-Tashi common sense.

 

[fashON]

Reading "The story of the lost child" by Elena Ferrante (the last book in a four-book series) and oh my, it's amazing!

 

[vogue28]

I've just finished Edward Enninful's A Visible Man and while I enjoyed the earlier chapters about his life as a child/young man... I expected far more from him about landing the top job at British Vogue and the making of the magazine. Perhaps that's his next book, though.

 

[Drusilla_]

Murder Must Advertise, by Dorothy L. Sayers. I'm really enjoying it, after a rocky first chapter (I still can't keep track of the characters introduced there)

 

[axiomatic]

I've just finished Edward Enninful's A Visible Man and while I enjoyed the earlier chapters about his life as a child/young man... I expected far more from him about landing the top job at British Vogue and the making of the magazine. Perhaps that's his next book, though.

I was surprised how much I liked the book. It's really impressive how he hustled himself into a career at i-D at such a young age.

Agreed though about writing more about his time as EIC. Maybe after he retires we'll get a more dishy, behind-the-scenes book. It was interesting to read his (gentle) criticism of Craig McDean in the early days of their careers and his (not so gentle) criticism of Alexandra Shulman.

 

[Drusilla_]

Butler to the World: How Britain Became the Servant of Tycoons, Tax Dodgers, Kleptocrats and Criminals, by Oliver Bullough. Highly recommend it if anyone has an interest in reading about financial crime!

 

[susseinmcswanny]

The Invention of Women by Oyeronke Oyewumi

 

[Dizzydi]

A biography of Xi Jinping by Stefan Aust and Adrian Geiges.

 

[eugenius]

Britney Spears, "The Woman In Me." This is the first, and hopefully last, time that I've ever been inspired by silly IG memes to buy actual literature.