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⭐️⭐️ Having read a few of Didion‘s journalistic pieces, and the recent title “Didion & Babitz,” I wanted to try one from the latter. Oh, the pretension and ego! Lord. Grapes, baseball, married men, sex, drugs. 1960s California is one of my favorite things to read about, but this will not go down as a favorite. It‘s a one and done for me and Didion‘s frenemy.

Eve Babitz was a whole vibe and you can feel the way Anolik is drawn to her (first through Eve's writing but ultimately in a desperation to tell Eve's story). There's sex and celebrity here, sure, but there's also a great deal about how we make and live our art.

My one friend gave this blanket and tote for Christmas.

⭐️⭐️⭐️💫 Story of 4 teen daughters of a wealthy Iranian American entrepreneur who were supposed to star in a Kardashian style reality show that was delayed due to COVID. I was initially put off by a very silly opening where one daughter was trying to change her birthday in order to be a different astrological sign. It tended a little vapid, but it eventually got more substantive and interesting.

#mystery #wickedwhispers @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Hope everyone finds what they‘re looking for this weekend - mostly books, laughter, and all this #HauntedShelf.

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#wondrouswednesday @Eggs

Thanks for the tag @Yuki_Onna ✋️

1. Not much competition given my current reading rate, but really enjoyed this one.

2. Paper!

3. Literary Fiction

I wanted the satire sharper and the humor funnier in this new novel about Iranian-American food heiresses who want to be the next Kardashians but the pandemic gets in the way. Great cover though.

I can't imagine a more surreal upbringing than being born in LA during the Golden Age of Hollywood, coming of age through the death of the studio system, and being there in your 20s for the height of rock and roll and the hippies, let alone going to school at Hollywood High, having artist parents, and literal Igor Stravinsky as your godfather. This is a fun book beginning to end, and Babitz is a fantastic natural writer, the sort of person 👇