During my Christmas break I was concentrating on reading one book. Christmas actually really does feel like such a long time ago, that even thinking about when I read this book feel like it was ages ago.
Lena Dunham has kind of turned into an inspiration recently. When I first heard of Lena, it was when I was browsing through TV picks on Sky for something to watch. Girls, oh my god what a programme. It is about four best friends living in New York and trying to make a living through following their dreams. Lena plays a young writer called Hannah who filters through jobs and goes around having crazy sex, as well as battling through obsessive compulsive disorder. Girls is quite funnily one of my favourite TV programmes to watch, considering I am mainly a fan of The Big Theory, Ghost Whisperer and Supernatural.
I began to see myself in Hannah in Girls, this dreamer who wants to write and create something everyone would want to read. Who is stubborn and consistent in making their own voices to be heard, but also can be arrogant and won't hear what other have to say. It was only natural that after reading the credits, (am I the only one who does that?) I have found out that Lena Dunham was the girl behind Hannah and the whole entire show.
Give me a few months and Google research. I have found out that Lena has her own memoir out and is also total besties with Taylor Swift. She is also hugely outspoken on her social media accounts. Which by the way, most of you all should follow.
It only took one drunken night and I had purchased her book online and it had made it way to me via post. I am one of those guiltily drunken online shoppers, mainly this involves books. Although since the New Year I have stuck to my goal and have only purchased two books.
Now this memoir was a truly interesting read. It reminded me of Caitlin Moran book, How to Build a Girl. The type of book you should read during puberty or just after because, there would be some scenarios in there that would make you feel, "Yes, I have been there" or "Now I completely understand why I feel that way."
Lena writes in such an honest manner and also quite blunt, which makes it so much easier to understand. She expresses herself well and how she grew up in an open household. She tells us ways in which her mum is a feminist and how she is also.
Dunham had me laughing at page two and had me entertained throughout the book and also had me thinking very seriously as well.
Claire.
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