Sex & Rage

I thought I wouldn't enjoy this book because of the reviews, but I liked Jacaranda a lot, and I was rooting for her at the end.

Here are some quotes from the book that stood out to me while reading.

“The more someone liked her writing, the fewer clothes she felt she had on”

“Sometimes when you have had a little too much to drink, people who don't know how wonderful you are might get the wrong impression” — “You're fun when you're drunk. The life of the party”

“Jacaranda's face mirrored, over and over in the shop windows, how vulnerable and foreign she was.”

“Those skies had been done as well as they ever could be. All the art she'd ever done was but a thimbleful of color compared to one inch of this Matisse...Picasso had been through the sky, come out the other end, dug to China with a child's shovel, and sen opposite skies...while Matisse just sat at home. And somehow his skies were bluer.”

I want to be young (I'm still 25) and in California (I like staying in the PNW) I want to tried coke at parties (no interest at all) surrounded by hot people (this i don't mind).

When I told people I was reading Sex and Rage, people assumes it's sexual and violent lol. While actually the “sex and rage” just means full of vitality and confidence. I really like Eve Babitz's voice, despite whether or not I like the characters in her books. They can live their own decadent lives and I can just read about it instead of having to do it myself

“Expensive transient bursts of well-being” as an explanation for: drugs, travel, alcoholism, LA.