One of the best short stories..maybe ever

"A Perfect Day for Banafish" by J.D. Salinger

THERE WERE ninety-seven New York advertising men in the hotel, and, the way they were monopolizing the long-distance lines, the girl in 507 had to wait from noon till almost two-thirty to get her call through. She used the time, though. She read an article in a women's pocket-size magazine, called "Sex Is Fun-or Hell." She washed her comb and brush. She took the spot out of the skirt of her beige suit. She moved the button on her Saks blouse. She tweezed out two freshly surfaced hairs in her mole. When the operator finally rang her room, she was sitting on the window seat and had almost finished putting lacquer on the nails of her left hand. . .

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Someone made a mini movie version of this..but the story is 100% better

The Hunger Artist

I really like this short story "A Hunger Artist" by Franz Kafka. You can read it here...it's super short dont be scared.

I recently finished reading "Bad Girls Go Everywhere: The Life of Helen Gurley Brown" by Jennifer Scanlon. Helen Gurley Brown was the Editor of Cosmopolitan for over twenty years and she was a maverick who changed the nations views on women and how they should behave at work, socially, and sexually. Along with Betty Friedan and Gloria Steinam, Helen Gurley Brown had her own stance on womens liberation, and had her own followers. She was a self made woman who rose to the top without any higher education and remained single far longer than what was considered appropriate for women in the 50's and 60's. She published a book called "Sex and the Single Girl"..promoted it across the country and became an inspiration to many. Her life and her views are pretty interesting, and were definitely far ahead of their time.

I just read this article in the New York Times about women bullying other women in the workplace, and how catty, and sabotaging they are to one another and it definitely made me think that these women need some advice from Helen. Instead of pushing each other to do better, and to succeed women tell on each other, complain and do whatever necessary to knock each other down.

Ehh it sucks..

When you cant write about love anymore..you write about dead babies

Keeping up with the spirit of the last book I read...which I mentioned in the post below..the next book I read was Dead Babies by Martin Amis.

This was the first novel of his that I've read, and I'm definitely interested in reading some more of his works. This book was not like any other that I have read although the topics may be familiar. Dead Babies is about youth, beauty, sex, violence and drugs and the whole time manages to keep a magical festive tone. This disgusting carnival is ultimately a satire in which "dead babies" refers to truth, the real world..which the characters in the story would love to avoid at any cost. And wouldn't we all sometimes.