book club time.

Welcome back to the Unfashionable Guide To Fashion book club. Did you all read Valley of the Dolls? Did you love it as much as I did? Perfect summer book. Well it's time to move onto Picnic at Hanging Rock. Everyone who has a blog and is a girl has pretty much wet their pants over the film and how it's so beautiful and how much they want to dress like 1900 Melbourne boarding school girls. But I'm talking about the book here. Read it. I am and it's pretty good.

Summer book club

So summer is upon us finally - or at least me. Had my first day of Christmas break today, feels kind of good. There is a lot to do in summer, and that is a whole lot of nothing. But one thing I want to do is start reading again. Proper books (ish). But the problem I have with 'modern literature' is that it kind of annoys me. The writing these days more than often than not it makes me want to scream and cringe at the same time. So when I read it is usually books made for impressionable tweens or books that verge on trash. Another type of book I tend to read is the 'must read classics' the wonderful Lolita for example (read now if you haven't already.) So in the spirit of my grumpy and cynical attitude towards writers today I have picked a book I can't really believe I haven't read yet; 'must read classic' slash trash. Wonderful. Summer reading is set for me - that and back-dated magazines. I love old magazines; yes I'm slow and not with the now but they are still interesting and on that note, to our one reader, expect some not so breaking pop culture news coming your way this summer.

J. D. Salinger

Was one hell of a dapper dude. Hello swoon city! But ALSO, his books are pretty good reads and rather easy ones too. What a fantastic combination! I always feel like such a wanky-angsty-literary-emo when I say I like him. But it's true - the fact that I like him that is. I'm a little angsty, but no emo - I don't wear enough eyeliner for that. Reading Nine Stories at the moment, and it's reminded me what a great writer he was. That's all.