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Story of My Life
Story of My Life | Jay McInerney
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Originally published by Atlantic Monthly Press in 1988, and now reissued by Grove Press, The Story of My Life by Jay McInerney is a hilarious, sobering portrait of 1980s New York City featuring twenty-something actress Alison Poole and her coterie of club-hopping, coke-addicted friends. In this breathlessly paced novel, McInerney revisits the nocturnal New York of Bright Lights, Big City. Alison Poole is a budding actress already fatally well versed in hopping the clubs, shopping Chanel, falling in and out of lust, and abusing other peoples credit cards. As Alison races toward emotional breakdown, McInerney gives us a funny yet oddly touching portrait of a postmodern Holly Golightly coming to terms with a world in which everything is permitted and nothing really matters.
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RamsFan1963
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Sounds like fun

#QuotsyJul20 #carousel

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AmyG My friend rented a house....with one of these in the living room. Sadly she moved out before I could sit on it for a picture. 🤣 (edited) 4y
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Billypar
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#BookSpin @TheAromaofBooks
I just saw another post for this and what a great idea! I thought it was new, and then I looked back at the prior posts and apparently EVERYONE on Litsy has been playing...where have I been? 😅
Not as many old unreads as I thought. In fact 7 of these are my fiancee's that I threw in to get to 20. Non-fiction, poetry, essays, classics - I like them all, but they do go unread more often.

Billypar (#1 = Siddhartha, #20 = Instant City) 5y
Leftcoastzen I just joined in too. Really cool idea .Ooooo, House of Sand and Fog & Flowers of Evil! (edited) 5y
merelybookish I'm also joining for the first time! I hope you get to read Jane Eyre! 5y
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Graywacke Disregard- figured it out. (Fun way to list them) (edited) 5y
Billypar @Leftcoastzen Yours was the post I saw, and I decided to go with your stack photo method instead of the list (so I can't take credit @Graywacke 🙂) HoS&F is a favorite film of mine, and I always drag my feet with reading books I've already watched. I like the poems I've already read from Flowers, but I'm notoriously bad at finishing poetry collections. 5y
Billypar @merelybookish Me too - it's another one where I've seen the film, but it's a crime not to have read the novel too! 5y
TheAromaofBooks Glad to have you along!! I just started doing this in January & only had maybe a dozen people participate that month - then in February it really picked up haha It's a simple, no-pressure challenge, so I'm glad to see people embracing it!! 5y
Billypar @TheAromaofBooks It looks like you've tapped into a real unmet need! I think all booklovers have had that experience where you read a book that languished for years on your shelf and you think 'That was amazing, what took me so long?' Looking forward to participating ☺ 5y
TheAromaofBooks Yes!! I think a lot of people are drawn to this one because it doesn't involve finding a different book, just picking up one you were already planning to read “someday“ 😁 5y
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silentrequiem
Story of My Life | Jay McInerney
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Well, @erinreads did warn that this was a dumpster fire of a book... #readersgonnaread

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silentrequiem
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What the fuck am I reading??? Yes, the cursing and the extra question marks are totally necessary. I'm side-eyeing @erinreads' second pick very hard. 😂😂😂 #readersgonnaread

Suet624 😂😂😂 6y
erinreads Br your cats are into it! How far did you make it so far? 😂😂😂😂 6y
silentrequiem @erinreads I'm on page 54 and I'm still not sure what I'm reading! 😂 6y
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ShananigansReads
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Always happens. #StoryOfMyLife

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sprainedbrain
Story of My Life | Jay McInerney
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This book is banana pants. A total train wreck. Trashy and funny and sad and pointless. So basically, very entertaining.

⭐️⭐️⭐️

4th book finished for #24in48 🤪

Sresendez12 😻 7y
trazo What a cutie! 😍😻 7y
SamHeartCoffee Love your furbaby! 7y
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RealBooks4ever What a sweet kitty! 😻💜 7y
Eggs 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 7y
Reggie Lololol, you make want to read this so bad. Lol great review. 7y
sprainedbrain @Reggie I think you might like it! 7y
sprainedbrain @Sresendez12 @trazo @SamHeartCoffee @RealBooks4ever She is very sweet and seemed to enjoy hanging out all weekend!❤️ 7y
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sprainedbrain
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Hour 12 already, and I‘ve got just over five hours of reading done. 👌🏻

This is the most intriguing #firstline from my #24in48 stack. I hope to get to this book tonight.

MemoirsForMe Woo hoo! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 7y
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