Misc Pop Culture Reads/Seens/Etcs.

[retsuko]

In Books:

I Want My MTV: The Uncensored Story of the Music Video Revolution, by Craig Marks: I gave up on this about 100 pages in. Here's what I said on Goodreads: "I don't think that I was the target audience for this work. After about a hundred pages, it was just a blur of people talking about cocaine-fueled orgies in between making videos,

Comments

[ladybird97]

YES YES on 'How To Be a Woman.' I just finished it (on karakara98's recommendation) and I loved it. Moran is impressively eloquent and brave in the things she talks about. And really really funny, too.

[retsuko]

I was just so impressed that she wrote about what it's actually like to have an abortion. And her dueling chapters on the woes and joys of parenting completely express my dichotomy of feelings on the subject. :D

[meganbmoore]

I'm reading the October Daye books too, though that fear made me want to binge instead of take it slow. I'm about 4/5s through the second book and liking it a lot, though I prefer the plot of the first. (This plot, while good and interesting, is less personal to Toby, and so not as emotionally investing, and there's less of her terribly fraught and complicated relationships with other women, though there are some fun bits with the Luidaeg early on.)

[retsuko]

Good to know. I think I'll start it in the new year, at this rate. More Luidaeg time = always good.

[lyras]

I agree with your sentiments on the Caitlin Moran book - sure, I think as many women as possible should read it, but also, I would love more men to read it. Because to me, the book is a perfect snapshot of what it's like to be a (white, heterosexual) woman in early 21st Century western society, but it's underpinned with so much dry humour that I like to think it would slip by the guard of people who would never pick up, say, a Germaine Greer book.

[retsuko]

I agree with you on the more male readership part. ;p

I got a little annoyed with her early on, especially on the shaving issue (my attitude has always been, if you don't want to shave your pubic hair, then JUST DON'T, and I have trouble understanding why more women don't just adopt this idea) but the rest of it was so accessible and just plain funny. But she slipped in so much insight with the funny, and knew when to switch to pathos very well. The story of her visit to the strip club was actually quite pathetic, and then the abortion chapter, and, yeah... well, she'd sold me on just about everything.