#Jessica Knoll

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June 22nd 💕

Books, flowers, art, colour, cats and comfort are key things for this summer.

🎧 the louvre by lorde

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Everyone should stop what they're doing and read Bright Young Women, by Jessica Knoll.

It's brilliant. It's so emotional - when I finished it, I was sat there in bitter-sweet awe. Gosh damn, what a book!

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Title: Bright Young Women | Author: Jessica Knoll | Publisher: Simon & Schuster (2022)

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Fan Cast: The Favorite Sister by Jessica Knoll

Fan Cast: Brett Courtney - Barbie Ferreira Kelly Courtney - Maiara Walsh Stephanie Simmons - Teyonah Parris Lauren Bunn - Halston Sage Jen Greenberg - Emma Dumont Vince DeMarco - Toby Leonard Moore Jesse Barnes - Debi Mazar Lisa - Kristin Chenoweth Arch - Ritu Arya Dr. Chugh - Archie Panjabi Yvette Greenberg - Parker Posey Satya - Ace Bhatti

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Suspense Readalikes: The Luckiest Girl Alive and Everyone Who Can Forgive Me Is Dead

In The Luckiest Girl Alive, by Jessica Knoll,  TifAni never speaks about the awful secrets in her past. She’s rebranded herself as upscale Ani, with a high-powered magazine job, an eating disorder, and blue-blood fiancé. But a new movie about the horrific school attack she survived years ago threatens to unearth all her secrets. In Everyone Who Can Forgive Me Is Dead, by Jenny Hollander, Charlie…

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My Book of the Month books arrived!!! September is my month of thrillers!

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Sorry I’ve been a bit MIA recently, I’ve just had a lot on my plate with school but…

November Wrap Up !!

Being Lolita by Alisson Wood: I gave no rating (see my review post)

Bright Young Women by Jessica Knoll: 5/5⭐️

Full Speed to a Crash Landing by Beth Revis: 3/5⭐️

The Cruel Prince by Holly Black: 4/5⭐️

The Wicked King by Holly Black: DNF (don’t hate me)

I went into December reading The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix (page 145) and listening to The Weight of Blood by Tiffany D. Jackson (30% in)

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books read in September

In September I was able to get so much reading done. 10 books yet most of them were for uni. I will give my thoughts mostly to my personal reads but I will add the uni reads too, who knows maybe you are interested in sexuality in ancient Greece and Rome.

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Unlearn Patriarchy 2 by various authors

Started the month strong with a 5 star read. I listened to the first part as an audiobook and really enjoyed it, so I obviously had to get my hands on the second part. One again there are various authors talking about various topics: law, finances and disability, just to mention some. These were topics where I could already see how patriarchy is represented in the society and how an why this could/has developed through time. It was interesting to learn and see new views, that helped me reflect on myself. But when I started the chapter about architecture, I am not gonna lie, my first thought after the introduction was “ok, but mayyyybe we are getting a little too far into fuck the patriarchy here”. Surprisingly no. There is no “too far” of unlearning patriarchy, when it benefits just a handful of people and disadvantages so many more.

It is a really nice and easy read to see what and where the problems are in our (yet mostly German focused) society.

Lysistrate by Aristophanes

This was a uni read, but it was the only one that I had to read that I actually enjoyed. It’s a play in which women go into a sex strike to force their men to find a solution to the war that is going on. It has some funny moments and it is easy to read. Besides that it really shows the power dynamic between women and men, which makes it sad because we still have this power structure going on OVER 2000 YEARS LATER. In my opinion I’d like someone else more if they told me that they read Lysistrate rather than Homer’s Odyssey or Iliad.

Bright Young Women by Jessica Knoll

This. Was. Amazing. I was hooked from start to finish. It does a great job in portraying how it is to be a women. Surely, the time it takes place is a different one, but I could see myself in the main character represented. It shows how journalism can fail someone, because they are focusing at the wrong topics, as well as the failure of police work. 4.75 stars.

Kosoko Jackson’s The Forest Demands Its Due

I think that I am just so done with “I am just an ordinary person, so why ME?” fantasy books. I read way too many of these books when I was a teen and YA. Surely, mostly of them were about white 17y/o girls, so I am happy that we are getting more books with queer and/or bipoc people as the main character. Yet the trope stays the same. If you aren’t fed up with this trope yet I’d still recommend it to you. Especially now at this time of season I’d say it’s a great read ! 3.75 stars for me, but objectively it’s a 4 star.

Love Letters to a Serial Killer by Tasha Coryell

This one is tough. I enjoyed reading it, but only because I read most of it as a satire. You can’t convince me that THIS is supposed to be a thriller. The main character doesn’t use her brain. AT ALL. She sees the read flags, recognizes them and still decides to do nothing. Also the plot twist was predictable and what happened at the last few pages throw me completely off. 2.5 stars.

uni reads

Catull’s Carmilla: various poems about sexuality, love, sex

Platon’s Symposion: various people (mostly men) talking about the meaning of Eros

I read a book of essays by Chrostoph Horn that are about Platon’s Symposion

Hippolytos by Euripides

Apuleius’ Metamorphose: I hated to read it. The whole time I complained to my bf about it. So many adventures that are not linked to another. Slow pace. Thou, I can recommend the Armor and Psyche tale which is told.

current reads

The End of Alice by A.M Homes

This is disgusting to read. It reminds of Lolita, but the author does such a great job to make it so uncomfortable to read that I had to take breaks, because I couldn’t believe what my eyes just read.

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Complete collection of E.A. Poe

It’s good to read Poe’s works one at a time and not one after another. So I don’t know if I can really say that I dnfed it or rather paused it. Because I do enjoyed them, but I am not that kind of person who likes to get in and out of short stories so quickly. It destroys the dark, creepy feeling one gets while reading it.

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“It was one of those awful moments where you have no control over your reaction, when the pain is too exposed to hide”

-Jessica Knoll

“Luckiest Girl Alive.”

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Escape the Readathon Update #2

Escape the Readathon is a readathon created by Lexie from Books with Lexie and co-hosted by many others in the BookTube and Bookstagram community. This year it’s about escaping a haunted carnival. There are prompts, but they’re pretty open and you don’t have to read solely horror/thriller/mystery to participate in this readathon. For more info, here’s the link to the announcement video Lexie did…

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Title: The Favorite Sister | Author: Jessica Knoll | Publisher: Simon & Schuster (2018)