Did I do any reading on vacation?
by Matthew Hennessey
The title & subtitle (“How the Last Adult Generation Can Save American from Millennials”) say it all. Naturally, I ate it up.
by Zachary Lazar
A historically accurate novel about the early Rolling Stones, the Manson family, and avant garde filmmaker Kenneth Anger. Guess which plotline was the only one I cared about.
The author retells her experience obtaining an illegal abortion in France in 1963. She can’t get straight information from anyone. She literally goes to a back alley, where a woman painfully inserts a “probe” into her, which she walks around with for days before it has an effect. She delivers a 3-month-old fetus. It frankly sounds as harrowing as giving birth to a full-term baby.
by Philip Bump
Hope you like charts and graphs – there’s one on almost literally every page. Frankly I found them harder to read and understand than the text most of the time. This book was too much about politics for me, and not enough about generations. Sometimes pages would go by without him even trying to tie what he was saying to the aging of the Baby Boomers. Since I am averse to politics as of the past decade, and only picked up the book because I’m on a “generations” kick, it was disappointing.
Tytania 