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1. Not much competition given my current reading rate, but really enjoyed this one.

2. Paper!

3. Literary Fiction

I can't imagine a more surreal upbringing than being born in LA during the Golden Age of Hollywood, coming of age through the death of the studio system, and being there in your 20s for the height of rock and roll and the hippies, let alone going to school at Hollywood High, having artist parents, and literal Igor Stravinsky as your godfather. This is a fun book beginning to end, and Babitz is a fantastic natural writer, the sort of person 👇

So deeply insightful

#FirstLineFridays
This is such an incredible book.
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Eve Babitz writes so well

What an absolutely perfect sentence. I know EXACTLY what she means

This made me sad.I‘m a couple days behind on being in touch. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/dec/20/eve-babitz-chronicler-of-1960s-and...

Kicking off a long weekend by starting this book and getting into to the good wine! #longweekendvibes

#Booked2020 #winter #setinHollywood Eve is often portrayed as a party girl but she was deeper than that . There is a chapter about writers & books she loves .She‘s good for a unique perspective & a witty turn of phrase. She writes with love about L.A. icons , Watts Towers,Angels Flight , Canter‘s , Barneys Beanery,Olvera Street, things still around that make me miss L.A.like a dull ache .Full of characters.

#MagnificentMarch #MemoirMonday I‘m about half way through this book , which is often categorized as a “semi-fictional memoir “ Eve is a force of nature, she went to Hollywood High .Her insights into L.A. are full of celebrities, wild behavior, Eve navigates it all , with a sense of humor and an edge. Also using for
#Booked2020 #SetInHollywood

#AyUpAugust when I think of #Star 🌟I think of Hollywood 🤩Below are 3 new titles I picked up this summer❣️❣️❣️The two books by Eve Babitz are #NYRB and gifted to me by my kids , who bought them while out in LA 🌴😎

“Taquitos are much better than heroin, it‘s just that no one knows about them and heroin‘s so celebrated.”

#truth

“So it turned out that power was the quality of knowing what you liked. An odd thing for power to be.”

Alright alright. Onto more positive things and no. more. crying. (This month has been REAL, ya'll, excuse me for not holding back at times on here). This is a stack of all the dollar books I've brought home in the past week or so! #TBR #TBRstack #sale #whysalesaredangerous

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"' But how will you toughen up and mature?' they ask.

'No,' I say. 'Who says you have to mature? I don't want to get old and die. I just want to die.'"

One from my to-read pile for today's #maybookflowers #hollywood. I'm hoping for some insights in to 60s Los Angeles. And maybe some snark. I'll keep you posted.