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My Goodreads review:
The most succinct way to describe this book would be the opening lines to Harry Styles's song "Watermelon Sugar:" "Tastes like strawberries on a summer evenin' / And it sounds just like a song." American Fantasy is a sweetie of a book, packed with 1980s/1990s pop culture nostalgia vibes and the wistful personal memories that accompany what the world remembers, plus different perspectives from the music industry (band, crew, and fans). Am I a better person for having read this book? No. Did I learn anything? No, but it drove home some points about fame that I knew to be true. But it was pure joy, so much so that I eschewed all TV in favor of finishing it in just 3 evenings.
Revolving around the fictional boy band Boy Talk and taking place over the 4 days of their 2023 cruise, we follow a few main characters from the band, a tour manager from the cruise production crew, and an unlikely attendee. I've previously declared Emma Straub a queen of family dynamics, and the family here is a music fandom. The characters may seem disparate, but they're connected by music. I deeply agree with this thought from Sarah, the tour manager: "She wanted to be close to music, which was, she still believed, as close as humans could get to the divine, whatever that meant. Not god. Not heaven. Just actual transcendence, connection, the web that slung around everyone's shoulders when they were all standing in a room together, listening to live music they loved." p. 265
Inspired by Emma Straub's experience on the very real 2023 NKOTB cruise, it depicts the microcosm of one fandom, but the beauty is in the elements that are universal. The list of names she interviewed as part of her research process is pretty epic - Susanna Hoffs! Keri Russell! Lin-Manuel Miranda! Joe McIntyre! - and American Fantasy has quite a bit to say about the all-consuming pressures and the deal with the devil that fame can be.
I've been on exactly 1 cruise ever, and it was indeed a music cruise - Jam Cruise 5 in 2007. The access to the artists seems incredible, there are themed parties every night, and the creativity of the fans' costumes and decorations demonstrates the deep dedication to these artists. This level of fandom brings to mind a quote from the movie Almost Famous, from the Band-Aid Sapphire: "They don't even know what it is to be a fan. Y'know? To truly love some silly little piece of music, or some band, so much that it hurts."
Yay, Emma Straub! Her stories are always a fun escape from our current dumpster fire reality, but they're never vapid or sappy, and the character development and world-building are always A+.
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Confessions of a Window Cleaner author Christopher Wood tries his hand at Yob-lit
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Two stars. My Goodreads review:
This was a little free library / book box discovery that had been sitting on my to-read shelf for over a year. Since I'm constantly reading stories about women (huzzah), there was a brief moment where I thought I wanted a switch to a male perspective so I finally reached for this.
From my Spanish studies in college, my impression of South American literature is that it always seems to have a mysterious vibe to match its misty, mountainous landscapes. I certainly loved One Hundred Years of Solitude. While the imagery of Lima and the other villages of Peru is vivid here, the rest is, well, a tedious slog (with the added insult of a tiny font size in this edition). Classic schmassic.
As I was forcing myself to finish this, I came across this Virginia Woolf quote: "I detest the masculine point of view. I am bored by his heroism, virtue, and honour. I think the best these men can do is not talk about themselves anymore." BINGO.
Set in Lima in the 1950s, the story alternates chapters between the story of Mario/Marito, an 18-year-old law student who also works in the news department at Radio Panamericana. He starts a secret affair with his aunt by marriage, Julia, and most of his plotline consists of having coffee, agonizing over his short stories and his future plans to become a writer, pining over Julia, and catching grief from his gossipy family.
The other chapters are the radio serials written by the Bolivian screenwriter of the title, Pedro Camacho, which are aired by the sister station and gain a dedicated following of listeners. Pedro's serials are full of violence and disasters - rape, incest, stabbings, earthquakes, etc. - and end on cliffhangers. As the serials progress and Pedro's manic work pace results in a spiral towards insanity, their effect becomes supposedly comical as different characters jump into each other's stories. Pedro just can't keep it all straight.
Once again, I thought perhaps something nuts would happen at the end so I stuck with it. It's yet another book that's way too long and way too impressed with itself. I'm so overdue for a book that's so incredible I can't help but rip through it in 1-2 days. This one could probably fall into my category of "bench presses for the brain," for when I feel that America, this timeline, and the internet are making me stupid.