- Nuevas candids de Kristin en Toronto (06-26 Marzo 2019):
(@mskristinlkreuk: At long last--my February book. I have a paper to finish today, but I procrastinated and completed this. "Black Swans" by Eve Babitz. These are a series of short autobiographical fiction stories about the shock of reaching adulthood in LA. Los Angeles and I have never found a groove. I love the purple of the jacaranda and the sushi and the sun. I love the way the haze makes everything look extra beautiful and a little pink. But the city itself always felt both more relaxed and more ambitious than I knew/know how to be. Babitz is of LA and the city is perhaps her greatest love and is the star of her writing. Thematically, "Black Swans" is about getting older, particularly in a city that rejects anything that ages. .
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An excerpt: "That strange mixture that's always been a major part of Hollywood--self-enchantment mingled with the ever-present fear of total disaster (earthquakes, fires, random murders)--lies beneath the physical reality of Hollywood, which sometimes looks too good to be true...The idea of middle age--never mind old age, God forbid one hundred years!--is the violent opposite of everything Hollywood is based upon, which, as anyone can see, is and has always been beauty ... beauty without a whisper of fading, sagging, or wrinkling, although real girls do age, of course, no matter how self-enchanted they are. And age is a disaster."
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Background: I get a book each month curated for me, and I write about them here:) I am perpetually behind)
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