Welcome to my newsletter Life, The Universe & Everything. I'm on a mission to explore how creativity, community and storytelling support mental wellness. Yes, I read a fuck ton of books!
How I Pick My Next Read
I use a venn diagram:
Current Mood - do I feel overwhelmed, content, tired, joyful or anything?
Life - am I going on a trip, or having people to stay, or just chilling in quiet anxiety?
Last Read - if I just read a space opera I need something different, maybe a contemporary novel or a murder mystery?
The Book Reviews Suck #8 Pick:
City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert
The gist from the publisher: “In 1940, nineteen-year-old Vivian Morris has just been kicked out of Vassar College, owing to her lackluster freshman-year performance. Her affluent parents send her to Manhattan to live with her Aunt Peg, who owns a flamboyant, crumbling midtown theater called the Lily Playhouse. There Vivian is introduced to an entire cosmos of unconventional and charismatic characters, from the fun-chasing showgirls to a sexy male actor, a grand-dame actress, a lady-killer writer, and no-nonsense stage manager.”
Perfect Read For:
Last Book I Read: The Bee Sting by Paul Murray - needed something lighter and funnier.
Life: It’s all just a bit too much and I want to escape to soothing 1940s New York City! Give me a cigarette and a glass of gin with the girls!
Mood: Feeling anxious…humm…so indecisive.
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Why Book Reviews Suck
I LOVE books, however I HATE reading book reviews. Blerg…
When I scan a boring book review I self debate: Do I jive with this random person's book taste? It seems like they don’t like this book; always a critic, never a writer? What is this person even saying? Oh look, my cat is curled up in a cute way…and I’m out.
Book critiques don’t connect for people like moi and perhaps toi! Instead let us grasp onto the e-commerce industrial complex: If You Like This, You Might Like That.