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4 stars
Not gonna do a TlDR because it's already pretty short... 4 retellings of the Rumplestiltskin fairytail. OK.
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frenchcookie47 finished reading The Rumpelstiltskin Problem by Vivian Vande Velde
frenchcookie47 wants to read The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
The Catcher in the Rye is a novel by J. D. Salinger, partially published in serial form in 1945–1946 and …
frenchcookie47 wants to read Misery by Stephen King
Misery by Stephen King
Paul Sheldon. He's a bestselling novelist who has finally met his biggest fan. Her name is Annie Wilkes and she …
frenchcookie47 wants to read The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson (Millenium Trilogy)
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson (Millenium Trilogy)
Lisbeth Salander—the heart of Larsson’s two previous novels—lies in critical condition, a bullet wound to her head, in the intensive …
frenchcookie47 rated Lolita in the Afterlife: 5 stars
frenchcookie47 finished reading Lolita in the Afterlife by Jenny Minton Quigley
Content warning Discussions of Pedophila and Spoilers for Lolita
TL;Dr - My Book of the Year in 2022. In a series of essays put together by the daughter of the man who originally let Lolita debut on the US stage, Jenny Milton Quigley and 30 other modern essayists take the Humbert Humbert, Valdimir Nabakov, 1950s America and a modern "cancel culture' to task. I ate this book like it was fried and dipped in chocolate. I came back for seconds. I rotated it in my brain like a freaking rotisserie chicken and I'm a vegetarian. I like Lolita. I like it a lot. I liked it's dissection even more. By cracking open a book as difficult as Lolita I felt I finally had a glimmer of understanding of what it was even trying to be about. Putting in context, comparing it to real life, examining Nabokov, the tragedy of Dolores Haze and looking through at every critical lens possible made me not only love the OG novel but really fall for everyone who contributed to a novel that's barely talked about today. Read this one!!!
frenchcookie47 wants to read The Anarchists' Convention & Other Stories by John sayles
frenchcookie47 finished reading The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
The Crying of Lot 49 is a novel written by American author Thomas Pynchon and …
Tl:Dr - Gonna be honest, I still not super clear about what this book was about and I think I need to read it again to really get it. Maybe this time with the Wikipedia page open. But the writing was great and very smooth and the wit that I was able to keep up with delicious!
Tl:Dr - Allison Bosh has lived rent free in my head since I read Alot in senior year of high school.
frenchcookie47 wants to read Tinker, Tailor, Solider, Spy by John Le Carre
frenchcookie47 wants to read Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1) by Ernest Cline
Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1) by Ernest Cline
Ready Player One is a 2011 science fiction novel, and the debut novel of American author Ernest Cline. The story, …
frenchcookie47 wants to read Sapiens by Derek Perkins
frenchcookie47 finished reading I lost it at the movies by Pauline Kael
Tl:Dr - (Feels good to do that on a new site) Local Californian has opinions on movies! I'd have on on her opinions about movies if I'd ever seen any of them, but I've only seen Citizen Kane (Not reviewed, only mentioned) and West Side Story which I agree with Kael about, but that's more because I'm a bitter hater of Romeo and Juliet. Kaels writing is really pretty and I can tell she deeply cares about her subject. And I don't think she ever wanted any of the movies to eviscerated to be bad, but she wasn't going to write anyone a puff piece, y'know? Additionally this was int resting to read from a time capsule sort of perspective. Like getting to look back at how people were thinking about media in the 50s/60s. Kaels thoughts on relations between men/women and consent WOULD NOT land today but I thought …
Tl:Dr - (Feels good to do that on a new site) Local Californian has opinions on movies! I'd have on on her opinions about movies if I'd ever seen any of them, but I've only seen Citizen Kane (Not reviewed, only mentioned) and West Side Story which I agree with Kael about, but that's more because I'm a bitter hater of Romeo and Juliet. Kaels writing is really pretty and I can tell she deeply cares about her subject. And I don't think she ever wanted any of the movies to eviscerated to be bad, but she wasn't going to write anyone a puff piece, y'know? Additionally this was int resting to read from a time capsule sort of perspective. Like getting to look back at how people were thinking about media in the 50s/60s. Kaels thoughts on relations between men/women and consent WOULD NOT land today but I thought it was fascinating to read about. Good book. You should read it.