Here are the rules: Don’t take too long to think about it. Fifteen books you’ve read that will always stick with you. They don’t have to be the greatest books you’ve ever read, just the ones that stick with you. First fifteen you can recall in no more than 15 minutes.
ah, shit girl! i feel like no one’s ever read she’s come undone and that book wrecked me growing up. i think about it all the time and make references no one gets. valley of the dolls is just my personal hell. i don’t understand what’s so wrong with the premise of it, but i judy garland-out at least 5 times a week. i knew you’d get the francesca—i saw it on my shelf and was like, “aw yeah, lily’s gonna feel me on this one.”
as for your list, i considered franny and zooey but i didn’t want to double dip on salinger. your list is so classy, my list is so trashy. it’s like referencing bad movies when everyone else is talking about citizen kane.
man, now i really want to go to green apple books next month.
omg i love you. i laughed like 10 times reading your response. i ALWAYS reference she’s come undone! oh man! yeah and no one understands. see and i of course wanted to put “catcher in the rye” but i too didn’t want to double dip on salinger. and franny and zooey was my favorite book growing up so i had to put it instead.
man if my list is classy its only because i thought of all those books first and then of course all my trashy ones come to mind afterwards. i love my trashy books. they keep me sane in between all of the classics.
OMG CAN WE PLEASE GO TO GREEN APPLE???? my favorite place ever.
a friend of mine is interning in salinas for a year, and she went to monterey to go whale watching and i was like “oh man, remember when dolores saw the whale in she’s come undone?” no one gets it. i keep wondering if oprah’s book club selections are just a secret shame.
i’m glad you laughed, considering it was just true. dessert wine and sleeping pills and a constant need for attention? hello, neely o’hara. it’s disgusting; i think my birth certificate is false and i’m actually 34. there’s no other explanation.
green apple is ON. zeitgeist is off. (kidding, i had a blast.) i should go to city lights too at some point, just on principle. and that weird bar in oakland that’s still uneven from the 1906 earthquake where jack london got drunk on the reg.
wow, maybe i should just be a bay area tour guide. this is getting pathetic. one month; see you soon!
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