What I'm Reading

Despite or actually BECAUSE the eponymous hero of this book is possibly the most unlikable female character I've ever read, I couldn't put this book down. Elizabeth Taylor (not the movie star) has gone somewhat out of fashion but wowww, reading this book felt like reading about the Worst Version of Myself. We meet Angel at age 15, difficult and isolated, convinced she's going to be the next big thing in literature. And she actually manages to publish a book which the public loves while the critics pan. After this, she continues living her life exactly on her own obnoxious terms, ending with becoming an old lady wearing ragged ball gowns in a derelict mansion surrounded by Persian cats all the while thinking she is just unappreciated in her time. A bit TOO close to home there, Elizabeth. Read it, you'll be intrigued and irritated and sympathetic all in one paragraph. #bookstagram #mrmbookclub #120in2020 #elizabethtaylor