The Alibi Book Club #36 {I Bought More Books}

I did that thing again where I tell myself I'm going to reread some books that I love first and then treat myself. But I kind of fell into Waterstone's last week and left with more than I thought I would leave with...

And that's what this post is about.

Yay!!

SO if you love reading as much as me and are looking for some books to add to your shelf, then read on my friend...

001: jia tolentino - trick mirror/ eve babitz - eve's hollywood:
Throwing two books into one segment as these I found through my queen Marina Diamandis' instagram. Marina usually posts about what she's been reading recently and these caught my eye and I'm so excited to delve into these as she's raved about how good these are!!

trick mirror:

"We are living in the era of the self, in an era of malleable truth and widespread personal and political delusion. In these nine interlinked essays, Jia Tolentino, the New Yorker's brightest young talent, explores her own coming of age in this warped and confusing landscape.

From the rise of the internet to her own appearance on an early reality TV show; from her experiences of ecstasy - both religious and chemical - to her uneasy engagement with our culture's endless drive towards `self-optimisation'; from the phenomenon of the successful American scammer to her generation's obsession with extravagant weddings, Jia Tolentino writes with style, humour and a fierce clarity about these strangest of times."

eve's hollywood:

"Journalist, party girl, bookworm, artist, muse: by the time she’d hit thirty, Eve Babitz had played all of these roles. Immortalized as the nude beauty facing down Duchamp and as one of Ed Ruscha’s Five 1965 Girlfriends, Babitz’s first book showed her to be a razor-sharp writer with tales of her own. Eve’s Hollywood is an album of  vivid snapshots of Southern California’s haute bohemians, of outrageously beautiful high-school ingenues and enviably tattooed Chicanas, of rock stars sleeping it off at the Chateau Marmont. And though Babitz’s prose might appear careening, she’s in control as she takes us on a ride through an LA of perpetual delight, from a joint serving the perfect taquito, to the corner of La Brea and Sunset where we make eye contact with a roller-skating hooker, to the Watts Towers. This “daughter of the wasteland” is here to show us that her city is no wasteland at all but a glowing landscape of swaying fruit trees and blooming bougainvillea, buffeted by earthquakes and the Santa Ana winds—and every bit as seductive as she is."

002: charlotte bronte - jane eyre:
Yet another classic to read on my list. I REALLY enjoyed reading Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte. So it only seemed right to read the sister's novel...

"Orphaned Jane Eyre endures an unhappy childhood, hated by her aunt and cousins and then sent to comfortless Lowood School. But life there improves and Jane stays on as a teacher, though she still longs for love and friendship. At Mr Rochester's house, where she goes to work as a governess, she hopes she might have found them - until she learns the terrible secret of the attic."

003: margaret atwood - cat's eye:
Having read two other books by Atwood, I thought it was about time to delve deeper into her other work's and this green cover caught my eye...

"Elaine Risley, a painter, returns to Toronto to find herself overwhelmed by her past. Memories of childhood - unbearable betrayals and cruelties - surface relentlessly, forcing her to confront the spectre of Cordelia, once her best friend and tormentor, who has haunted her for forty years."

004: sophie kinsella - i owe you one:
I felt I really needed to add to my lighthearted themes side of my bookshelf as I've been reading a lot more serious novels recently. And I LOVE Sophie Kinsella, so it only seemed appropriate haha.

"Fixie Farr can't help herself.

Straightening a crooked object, removing a barely-there stain, helping out a friend... she just has to put things right. It's how she got her nickname, after all. So when a handsome stranger in a coffee shop asks her to watch his laptop for a moment, Fixie not only agrees, she ends up saving it from certain disaster.

To thank her, the computer's owner, Sebastian, scribbles her an IOU - but of course Fixie never intends to call in the favour. That is, until her teenage crush, Ryan, comes back into her life and needs her help - and Fixie turns to Seb. But things don't go according to plan, and now Fixie owes Seb: big time. Soon the pair are caught up in a series of IOUs - from small favours to life-changing debts - and Fixie is torn between the past she's used to and the future she deserves.

Does she have the courage to fix things for herself and fight for the life, and love, she really wants?"

And that's my little haul...

If I do really love any of these, I'll defo make sure I include them in a next favourites post or video!