memoir – books

Fly, Wild Swans: My Mother, Myself and China

China Duology #2

by Jung Chang

★★★★½

No New York: A Memoir of No Wave and the Women Who Shaped the Scene

by Adele Bertei

★★★¾

Famesick

by Lena Dunham

★★★½

Even the Good Girls Will Cry: A ’90s Rock Memoir

by Melissa Auf der Maur

★★★½

Adult Braces: Driving Myself Sane

by Lindy West

★★★½

This Woman’s Work: Essays on Music

Kim Gordon, Sinéad Gleeson (Editors)

“Music on the Internet Has No Context” by Kim Gordon ★★★★
“Broadside Ballads” by Liz Pelly ★★★★★
“Sonic Seasonings: The Genius of Wendy Carlos” by Sinéad Gleeson ★★★★★

Drugs Are Nice: A Post-Punk Memoir

by Lisa Crystal Carver

DNF 27%

A specific era and milieu of pre-internet edgelords. Empty, mean, and aboundingly white.

★¾

Say Everything

by Ione Skye

★★★¾

Alien Daughters Walk Into the Sun: An Almanac of Extreme Girlhood

by Jackie Wang

★★★½

Jokes My Father Never Taught Me

by Rain Pryor

★★★

Pryor Convictions: And Other Life Sentences

by Richard Pryor

★★★¾

Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter

by Adeline Yen Mah

★★★¼

Beastie Boys Book

by Michael Diamond, Adam Horovitz

★★★★

Halfbreed

by Maria Campbell

★★★★½

Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk

by Kathleen Hanna

★★★★¾

Everything I Know About Love

by Dolly Alderton

★★★★