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The main character is a spoilt (not spoiled, spoilt) German guy luxuriating in an alpine sanatorium.
After 200 pages, I was like, Fuck this.
Now is the time for books that go down like rice pudding.
Now is the time for sweet, easily digested, soul-swaddling tomes.
I will complete my Mann voyage another time.
Today, we feast on sizzling memoirs, Hollywood novels, and deranged hippie misadventures.
(My folder is titled Soothing Images.)
Populate it with pics of baby elephants, shady grottoes, buttered toast whatever reduces your palpitations.
Its fun to scout for images and comforting to know they await you when needed.
You could even create a shared folder with friends.
Wiener works as a journalist in Spain.
Her mind is a beautiful and unique organ.
She hates going to the gynecologist because one of the instruments reminds her of an industrial orange juicer.
She wishes there was a designer drug for pregnant women like ecstasy or LSD but safe.
What else can I say?
You neednt possess a baby to enjoy it.
Having once been a fetus is sufficient.
I would describe the books structure as fractal-shaped.
I would describe the authors use of asterisks as hilarious and his deployment of rhetorical questions as illuminating.
Postscript: I was inspired by this book to try amuffinrecipe from the Zen Center cookbook.
It tasted like a normal muffin with one tablespoon of dirt added.
The prolific blurber Stephen King described this book as one of the most horrifying things Ive ever read.
I personally guarantee you will have a nightmare about it within three months of turning the final page.
The subject matter is viral hemorrhagic fevers, most notably Ebola.
The prose style is popular science at its finest.
If you like short sentences with colons, such as this one: There are plenty.
You may want to sit on a towel while reading in case you terror-pee yourself!
ReadThe Playerif Hollywood booksTICKLEyourPICKLE?
Settle into aFROTHING BUBBLE BATHofJane Gardam?
Suck on thisLOLLIPOPof amemoirif you like Eve Babitz, Hollywood tales, and coming-of-age stories?
Rip throughthis bad boyfor instantMOOD ELEVATION?
Do alittle danceandMAKE A LITTLE LOVE?
(Get down tonight.
Get down tonight.)
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