snow day reading - my hold came in early so I‘m reading my book club pick for July.
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snow day reading - my hold came in early so I‘m reading my book club pick for July.
#LiteraryLadiesBookClub
pick#2 of 2025 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
They were careless people… they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made. —F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
so-soWide variety of Christmas stories, lyrics, and poems collected here by Caroline Kennedy. The artwork felt like it was from the 1960s, so I had to keep reminding myself this was published in the 2000s. A nice collection to read around Christmastime, though. My dad got this signed by the author and kept the newspaper clipping saying when she came to town.
pickVery interesting to read a hot take on the Kennedys that doesn‘t deify them. This story of the womanising, misogynistic, side of Kennedy privilege is grim reading, and when narrated cumulatively like this is shocking although nothing here is especially novel or new information. My only critique of this book is that I found the structure a little scattered.
pick⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis. The epitome of a powerful woman. She played the games, and dealt with the consequences, all while looking fabulous. Facetiousness aside, this is the biography of a woman who experienced unspeakable trauma and lived with it the best she knew how for the rest of her days. Yet, I‘m left wondering if she was ever truly happy.
pick⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ A family of philandering men and their conveyer belt of women, disgustingly passing them around, enabling one another, deeply gaslighting. Jackie, Marilyn, Carolyn, among many, many others. Very cringey information. Journalist Maureen Callahan has impressed me again! If you haven‘t read American Predator, you must.
pickHaven‘t read a book this good in a looong time. It definitely shifted my perspective and made me cry (which is rare for a nonfiction read). Will be recommending this for sure! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
