What I've been reading recently!

We're only going to talk about the books that I've enjoyed, because that's more fun.

"Shock Value: How A Few Eccentric Outsiders Gave Us Nightmares, Conquered Hollywood, and Invented Modern Horror" by Jason Zinoman

This book was way better than the schlocky cover suggests. John Carpenter, Tobe Hooper and more of the directors that made modern horror what it was.  For a girl who hates scary movies I keep reading books about them and watching them. It's confusing!

"The Wasteland: The Great War and the Origins of Modern Horror" by W. Scott Poole

I adored this book (except for the one part where the author starts talking shit about C.S. Lewis for like, one sentence out of nowhere). The horrors of WWI effected books and the arts in a very real, very long term way and this book hits on all of it. So interesting!

"A Russian Journal" by John Steinbeck and photos by Robert Capa

I actually got this book as a Christmas present for a dear friend that I talk Steinbeck AND Russia with, I honestly didn't know that this book existed and I stumbled across it. Once he finished reading it (which is kind of a proud moment for me, because he's not a big reader) I borrowed it from him so I could read it. It was funny and sad and enlightening and now I need to read a Robert Capa biography because he sounds like he was quite and a character.

"The Power" by Naomi Alderman

This book messed me up in a big way. I told everyone I know about it. Especially the women in my life who are big readers. It was vindicating and terrifying and made me cackle and made me sigh. No pun intended, an incredibly powerful book.