Can You Get Me A Green Doll?......cont.

I believe I left off with White Oleander(my second favorite read ever) and tonight I will go over five more Novels, and Auto-Biographies that are "Must Reads" on my list as well. I hope you all are enjoying this and are exciting to begin letting your imagination flow this New Year by starting off with one of these!

MUST READS(cont.)

Go Ask Alice- Anonomous
*Go Ask Alice is one of the first books I ever read on my own. I kept it hidden in my bedroom and I was in 6th or 7th grade. Most of you, I'm assuming, have read, this powerful Diary of a girl who's rebellious ways led her to moving out as a teenager, having many dramatic relationships, living the hippy ways, and always tripping out on Acid. In many ways I loved and still love this book. Alice is somebody who I will never be. And at the time I read it she was everything I was not but dreamed of being. I wanted to be wild and free but instead I was very inhibited and a follower of the rules(minus the music I listened to). Alice reaches the end of the book back at home and clean ready to change her life around just when an old neighbor stops by to say high and gives her a little paper with a smiley face. Just one more time she thought. Well that time was the last for Alice had a bad trip causing her to go insane and kill herself.

Heavier Than Heaven- Charles Cross (also see Cobain Unseen by Charles Cross)
*This book is just one of those books that comes along once and a lifetime and if you were taken by his music, intrigued by his privacy, or/and also shaken that the great genius we all know as Kurt Cobain, had committed suicide at the young age of 27, then this auto-biography will take you through his life step by step. I love this book and have read it literally COUNTLESS times. It's a book that always has to be with me. The way Cross wrote about Kurt's life in such positivity and greatness leaves the reader not being able to book the book down from beginning to end. A must for any music lover. Although Kurt did end his life, you learn that he was in such despair and pain that he could no longer live and provide what was demanded of him. This books takes you through when he was a baby until the end. The story is a tragic one. Not one with many uplifting points. But that was Kurt and he's had "the suicide gene" since he can remember. Best Cobain book out there. My third favorite book ever.

RENT- Jonathan Larson
*To properly get the correct book that i am about to describe let me explain what it looks like so you do not anything but. The book is very long(sort of like a final scrip or score long), it is black but looks very damaged. It is binded by the looks of silver duck tape and painted across the upper center in written RENT in b&w. If you love musical theatre then you have to have this. Anyone who loves musical theatre and is in generation X, like I am, usually placed RENT next to a God like creation. The creator Jonathan Larson had worked on this score for seven year.....never to see it open on Broadway. The story of how Rent became what is is now, which is legendary, is something for you all to read. It's magical and poetic and leaves both tears of sadness and joy. I will not give anymore away. I was lucky enough to see this two times on Broadway and when I think about it I still get chills.

Glamorama- Bret Easton Ellis
*This is the 3rd novel by Bret Easton Ellis on a list of my ten favorite all time books. As you can start to notice, I am just enthralled by his writing. The piece, Glamorama, is extremely hard to explain. I really don't know where to start but "I see specks". A line you'll see often throughout this long masterpiece. A very fucked up book about a guy that is also just as fucked up as the book. All I can say is please read it. You will not put it down and you will most likely have to read each page twice from being so taken off guard. It is worth every minute you spend on it. A twisted, open ended, piece of life seen through the eyes of a NYC yuppie. Written shortly after American Psycho.

Britney: Inside the Dream- Steve Dennis
*Steve Dennis finished this book about a year after Britney Spears' public breakdown. As a young girl and now as a woman I have and will always idolize Britney Spears. I see her, as do a lot of others, as a VERY fascinating individual. But that here is the problem. I remember in high school dancing to Britney with my best friend and saying "ohh I wish I was Britney!" Well be careful what you wish for. Now I see, as an adult, Britney leads a very uncharming life. This book takes you through all of the highs and lows of her entire life so far. She lived under a microscope, barely able to leave her house, has never had a real friend, gotten married twice just to feel the love and security from a man, which she never had from her alcoholic father who is now her Conservator. The whole thing is like one bad dream no one ever wanted to see. Her stunted mental growth along with the many mental issues Britney struggles with, leaves her life in the hands of the court. It's not a way to live. But on the other hand she is our Queen of Pop, our royalty. Please read this book just to understand what a day is like for this woman.

Ahh!!! And we are finished! So those are my top 10 books at the moment and of all time. Please check them out. The best place to purchase these is at www.amazon.com and you won't be disappointed. I promise you.

Peace & Love
S

Can You Get Me a Green Doll, Darling?

So the last time I wrote was about 2-3 weeks ago and I am soo sorry for that but please excuse me for that. I, 1st off, have a horrible time with the holidays(not much of a holiday girl. for some reason just always brings me down), and I am trying to get all my shit together for my move to Cali in 14 days. Trouble with the winter blues, time change, and packing has just left me exhausted. Soo exhausted that I had slept most of December away really hahahaha. Very excited for the New Year though! I feel really good vibes......for not only me but all of us. I just feel it!

I've been a tad OCD the past few days so instead of sleeping the 17 hours of the day that it is dark out, I actually gathered my bills, changed my address, transferred my car, and picked up the rest of my storage from a girlfriends house. Ohh and what I found was just wonderful! 3 whole boxes full of books, DVD's, and yes......every magazine from when Britney was having her meltdown in '06/'07. Talk about fun stuff to go through!!! Why I saved the magazines, I truly don't know but I NEVER do anything without a reason so they will go in the box with my other important magazines and Rolling Stones. I collect a lot of Michael Jackson and Nirvana/Kurt Cobain as well as almost every Rolling Stone Britney Spears has been on. And as for collecting, that IT. I don't collect anything else......besides maybe a couple of my cocktail dresses that will be vintage couture one day. I mean I wish I could say I collected Balenciaga bags, but nope.....just old Rolling Stones and People magazines haha. I enjoy them though so that's what matters. After the stack of week by week Britney breakdown, I started to unload my books and I was like the BIGGEST dork on the planet. I literally couldn't stop smiling. If you know me, you will know that reading and writing are 2 of my biggest loves and seeing my huge collection of books really got me high on life.

I have a particular genre that I usually lean towards and that is the Biography/Auto-Biography genre. I find it fascinating to read about how people got where they are, their struggles, and the passion that they had for their work. I do have a handful of favorite Fictional pieces as well. Below is a list I have composed of my favorites. If you have a wild imagination and really really can get into the character or person, then you are like me. When I find a piece I am to the point of obsession with, I almost transform into that character. Not to sound too nuts(even though I think I'm past that point), but when reading it literally takes me out of my realm of reality and into anothers. I suggest all these books to the highest degree. Boys-I'm sorry but a lot of these are ballet books. But more like crazy ballerinas so believe me you really might enjoy! And this is just a handful I'm writing down so if you need more, don't fret I got you covered.

MUST READS

Dancing on my Grave- by Gelsey Kirkland

*One of my top favs for various reasons. Let's just start off that I read this book while in the beginning of 9th grade for the 1st time. I have now read it over 100 times. And every time it still fascinates me. Gelsey is one of NYCB's Balanchine ballerinas. While there she was anorexic, obsessive compulsive, and had a great case of perfectionism. Later, with ABT, she had many of affairs with Baryshnikov, living off one apple a day, and a spiraling out of control cocaine addiction. All while being the most Prima of the Ballerina's in the world.

Valley of the Dolls- by Jacqueline Susann

*I'm sure most of you have at least heard of this spectacular book if not haven't already read it. But hello! it's Valley of the Dolls!!! It's to die. Takes place in I believe the late 50's early '60's. The story is of 3 women who move to NYC to live and go for their dreams and as soon as they all get what they want, everything becomes disastrous. The call pills, in the book, "dolls". "hand me 2 red dolls darling won't you?) And as they all get by there days on uppers and downers in amounts that Elvis must have taken, breakdowns, psych wards, and fame appear and disappear quickly.

Less Than Zero- Bret Easton Ellis

I got this at the bookshop in college one after noon while I was supposed to be buying History and Economic books. After the 1st page I knew this book was going to be astonishing. I skipped classes to stay home and read this book. It is about a bunch of rich brats returning from their 1st semester of college to L.A. where they all grew up. Drugs, sex, scandal, and anything you could ever want. This is actually my favorite book EVER........hands down.

American Psycho- Bret Easton Ellis

Yes.....every book that Bret has written I have read and I die for. American Psycho is no different. I actually read the book before I saw the movie and although nothing compares with Christian Bales performance of Patrick Bateman but I must say nothing gets better than the book. I'm sure many of you know, Bateman, is an psychotic character that you kind of actually end up liking. "I have all the characteristics of a human being: blood, flesh, skin, hair; but not a single, clear, identifiable emotion, except for greed and disgust. Something horrible is happening inside of me and I don't know why. My nightly bloodlust has overflown into my days. I feel lethal, on the verge of frenzy. I think my mask of sanity is about to slip."-Patrick Bateman

Off Balance- Suzanne Gordon

This book is a intense look inside the crazy world of Ballet. Suzanne takes you into the depths of despair of what is soo beautiful is actually very very ugly. The competitiveness, the strive to be the best of the best of the best, body image, drugs, and the stage mothers who are there every minute watching their own daughters or sons die over an art that is so complex that nobody can make it perfect. Who will make it out alive?

White Oleander- Janet Fitch

I read this way before the movie came out and it is my second favorite book right behind Less than Zero. I actually because so infatuated with this book that at times I would read the same page over 4 times to make the masterpiece last longer. The main characters name is Astrid. Her mother goes to jail but is a very free spirit. Astrid is thrown into California's foster care and goes through hell and back. This book will move you. This book will leave you for years wanting more. I can't put into words how much I care for this story.

OKAY..........well that was only 6, so tomorrow i will do another 6. I hope you enjoy the miniature synopsis's and they make you want to go pick them up at the library or on Amazon tomorrow. Have a FABULOUS NYE.

Peace&Happy New Year

S