The world of book tumblr is so often looseleaf tea and coffeeshops, but I have to admit that my favorite place to read by far (at least in the winter) is the cozy Pub in the basement of a stone building of my alma mater, the University of Chicago, with one of my favorite beers (this one is called Punk Rock for Rich Kids). Almost halfway through Middlemarch! (350 pages in!)
It’s a great day for vintage read and fresh pressed coffee in my little reading corner ☕️📚
Review | Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann
Genre: upmarket, fiction
Setting: USA, 1940s-60s
# of Pages: 496
Rating: 3/5The skinny: Three young women screw up their lives with money, prescription drugs, and douchebag men.
The fat: This book is the literary equivalent of a bunch of women at a party giving each other The Look when a man in their midst says something sexist or otherwise idiotic. That quality alone–the sheer, tragic familiarity–makes it worth reading, but after two or three hundred pages it does start to feel repetitive. The point is clear from halfway through: being a woman in 20th century America is a little like being engaged in a never-ending all-out war with men, society, and yourself. But the story has staying power, and continues to (perversely) fascinate. What’s shocking now is not Susann’s frank sex talk or her heroines’ unchecked abuse of prescription pills, however. It’s simply how little, in the 50 years since this book’s publication, things have changed.
An edited version of my Inktober 2016 Green Witch/Healer Witch is now available! Here’s what it looks like after I made the changes (Of course the actual prints don’t have my obnoxious watermark though)!
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