#Update: 13.08.2024

That’s It. That’s the blogpost!

August 2024:   (…enjoying some vacation days with less reading)

1. Trump’s Peace – Barak Ravid – REVIEW
2. #Election USA 2024 “…they’ve had enough.”
3. #Election USA 2024 –  Tim Walz VP candidiate
4. #Election USA 2024 – “The Look”
5. #Update: 01.08.2024
6. King: A Life – J. Eig (…almost finished 43/45 chapters!)
7. #UPDATE: 13.08.2024
8. Tidal Waters – Velia Vidal – REVIEW

NEW BOOKS

1. The Mirage – Dr. Jamal Al Suwaidi – NF
2. Cruelty is the Point – Adam Serwer (essays)
3. The Debt Trap – Josh Mitchell – NF
   
4. Tired of Winning – Jonathan Karl (audio) – NF
   
5. In Praise of Shadows – Junichiro Tanizaki (essays)
   
6. Between Eternities – Javier Maria (essays)
   
7. The Unreality of Memory – Elisa Gabbert (essays)
   
8. Leopoldstadt – Tom Stoppard (play)

Film challenge:

Finished     Feud: Capote vs The Swans      (8 episodes on Disney+) – Excellent!!

• Naomi Watts as Babe Paley  (Emmy nominaton best actress mini-series)
• Diane Lane as Slim Keith    (Emmy nomination best supporting actress mini-series)
• Chloë Sevigny as C. Z. Guest
• Calista Flockhart as Lee Radziwill
• Demi Moore as Ann Woodward
• Molly Ringwald as Joanne Carson
• Treat Williams as Bill Paley (Emmy nomination best supporting actor mini series)
• Joe Mantello as Jack Dunphy
• Russell Tovey as John O’Shea
• Tom Hollander as Truman Capote (Emmy nomination best actor mini series)

Acclaimed writer Truman Capote ruins his friendships with the Swans, a socialite group of New York City high society, by writing a thinly veiled fictionalized account of their scandalous and hedonistic lives in his (ultimately unfinished) novel, Answered Prayers. When Esquire publishes the chapter “La Côte Basque 1965”, after the restaurant of the same name frequented by the Swans and Capote himself,  several vow to ruin his life in revenge.