Thread by @JayEllCee12, So I've been trying to read a lot more in my spare [...]

So I've been trying to read a lot more in my spare time this year, and have been getting through the actual library of books I've bought over the years, both in physical and Kindle format. So I thought I'd make a thread of all the books I've read so far!

This won't be updated frequently, as I'm a notoriously slow reader, and it takes me months to get through a book - and I won't include the books I've re-read (so the beginning of this year was re-reading Little Women and the Secret Garden)

These won't be reviews of the books, but I thought it would be fun to note somewhere what I'm currently reading!

So after the re-reads, I recently finished Robin by Dave Itzkoff: I didn't know a ton about his life before, and this book is so in-depth, it covers almost everything. The last few chapters were so hard to read

And now after reading some Kindle samples, I'm now reading Wishful Drinking by Carrie Fisher, and good God, where have her books been all my life

Oh no, I was supposed to update this with every book I've read, and I've actually read a lot since May! Let's do this

So I not only finished Wishful Drinking, but I also read Carrie Fisher's Shopaholic and The Princess Diarist - I loved these books!

Then I read Spectacles, Sue Perkins' autobiography, which had some very relatable stories in it, funny as expected

Then I read Stanley Kubrick: A Biography, and I wanted to read this because it was published before Kubrick's death in 1999, thought it would be interesting to read an opinion without the kind of legend status. It filled in a few gaps of my Kubrick knowledge

Then I read Disney War, which was insightful into Eisner's rise and fall, reminded me of Neal Gabler's Disney bio
And I read the Pixar Touch, which was kinda basic beginner's guide to Pixar biography - even with the explanation, I still have no idea how CGI animation works

Then I read the Jaws Log: the making of Jaws is one of my absolute favourite parts of film history, so I should have really read this sooner (and I didn't really learn anything new from it), but it was great to read anyway, no surprises there

Then I read a book called Animated Films, which highlights specific animated films from different styles, countries e.t.c. I knew we were deep into Amateur Hour when the author used female pronouns for Shrek 2 director, Kelly Asbury

Then I've recently read Amy Nicholson's wonderful Anatomy of an Actor book on Tom Cruise (spare me, I'm utterly fascinated by him as an actor only [and maybe his face, whatever]) - I learnt so much! Amy should write all the books on all the actors

And now I'm currently reading 2 very similar books: David Bowie Made Me Gay, and Breaking Down the Walls of Heartache, which are both about LGBT music history - they're kind of discussing the same people and same time period at the moment, but still, interesting to read!

OH my God, I thought I had updated this thread at the end of 2020, I was wrong! I've read a lot!

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