2 for the price of 1!
Sep. 10th, 2025 06:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
isunshowerbecause i procrastinated a little too long about writing one book review, i now have two for you! i'm currently parked in one of my favourite coffee shops because tis the season (not enough time to go home between work and rehearsal season). i have an italian soda and my laptop and i feel like SUCH a twentysomething right now it's gorgeous.
anyway, first finish: Silent Spring, by Rachel Carson. I found out over the course of reading this that not everyone heard about this book in high school science classes, so for the uninitiated: it's a pop science book explaining, very systematically and accessibly, the harms caused to the environment by the pesticide industry. backlash resulting from the book led to a significantly more regulated (although still extremely harmful lmaooo) pesticide industry and the creation of the EPA. so this was an interesting one to read right now! considering the, you know, gestures at The Everything. kind of scary considering that, like--i don't actually think too hard about what's in the food i eat, and maybe i should...?
my second finish (completed on the subway less than two hours ago) is Win Me Something by Kyle Lucia Wu. It's about a biracial girl who becomes a live-in nanny for a rich white family in new york city. it's very vibey, plot doesn't really exist and the book mostly serves to highlight all the little tensions between willa's childhood and her present and between her life and the life of her employers over the course of her time working for them. It's a little self-explorationy but in a way that didn't totally resolve. I actually really enjoyed it though, I started it and thought "oh god this is going to be so literary and i'm going to hate it" but wound up tearing through it.
in other news, i've been going to swing dancing recently and have also... kind of sort of maybe started falling down the hockey rabbit hole. see previous posts about hockey rpf. i straight up care about hockey now and i'm going to watch my home team's first game of the season on tv if i can figure out how. i can't believe this is the kind of adult i grew up into.
anyway, first finish: Silent Spring, by Rachel Carson. I found out over the course of reading this that not everyone heard about this book in high school science classes, so for the uninitiated: it's a pop science book explaining, very systematically and accessibly, the harms caused to the environment by the pesticide industry. backlash resulting from the book led to a significantly more regulated (although still extremely harmful lmaooo) pesticide industry and the creation of the EPA. so this was an interesting one to read right now! considering the, you know, gestures at The Everything. kind of scary considering that, like--i don't actually think too hard about what's in the food i eat, and maybe i should...?
my second finish (completed on the subway less than two hours ago) is Win Me Something by Kyle Lucia Wu. It's about a biracial girl who becomes a live-in nanny for a rich white family in new york city. it's very vibey, plot doesn't really exist and the book mostly serves to highlight all the little tensions between willa's childhood and her present and between her life and the life of her employers over the course of her time working for them. It's a little self-explorationy but in a way that didn't totally resolve. I actually really enjoyed it though, I started it and thought "oh god this is going to be so literary and i'm going to hate it" but wound up tearing through it.
in other news, i've been going to swing dancing recently and have also... kind of sort of maybe started falling down the hockey rabbit hole. see previous posts about hockey rpf. i straight up care about hockey now and i'm going to watch my home team's first game of the season on tv if i can figure out how. i can't believe this is the kind of adult i grew up into.
