Tina Fey
Bossypants
Tina Fey’s life story – her childhood, how she started out, life in Hollywood – was a pleasant read although it didn’t shake my world. Her dry sense of humour made me smile at times and she definitely comes across as someone you’d like to be friends with. But that I knew from watching her already.
What really aroused my curiosity was her truth of what wanting a career and a family in a business where you should be young and available at all times meant. What it is like to be a woman in the world of comedians. If you like Tina Fey’s work and/or are curious about the topics aforementioned, then you should enjoy this book.
Vladimir Nabokov
Lolita
What a masterpiece. What an upsetting story. I first read Lolita about a decade ago as a postgrad student. A friend and I had to read it for a literature class and said friend thought himself to be in love with our professor. He identified with Lolita as he fell deeper into this impossible relationship with an older man. He thought it was glamourous. Well, neither his love nor the lust Humbert has for Lolita is.
I’m glad I picked up Lolita again after all this time. Nabokov’s writing is of course impeccable but above all, the many reads and thoughts and experiences I had during these ten years made the actual story even more uncomfortable. Naturally, the fact that the story is told from Humbert’s point of view could make you side with him. He was in love. But Humbert was a pervert who ruined a young girl’s life. Such men exists outside of literature putting them on a romantic pedestal is criminal.
If you have never read Lolita or not opened your book in a long time an fancy yourself some thought-provoking masterpiece over the summer, that’s your book!
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