Finished reading: Can’t Buy Me Love by Jonathan Gould 📚

Finished reading: Vagabonding by Rolf Potts 📚 Definitely inspired to plan an extended break after reading this!

Currently reading: Essays by George Orwell 📚

Finished reading: Tune In by Mark Lewisohn 📚A must read for any Beatles fan. This history of the early, pre-fame years of the Fab Four is incredibly well researched. What strikes me most is how different The Beatles were even at this stage and the combination of personality and ambition that drew people to them.

Currently reading: Tune In by Mark Lewisohn 📚Reading the chapter on ‘the Boy’s’ first trip to Hamburg. Love this quote from Klaus Vormann about the effect Ringo had on the band “every time Ringo came near the Beatles it was happiness “.

Finished reading: Women After All: Sex, Evolution, and the End of Male Supremacy by Melvin Konner 📚

Finished reading the chapter “The Swish of the Curtain” from the Mark Lewisohn book “Tune In, The Beatles: All these Years Vol 1” today. The chapter details the early life and career of Brian Epstein. While Brian certainly had many triumphs in his short life, it is so sad to read about how tortured he felt about being gay and the shame that accompanied this. Even more sad to think of the innumerable others that must have felt the same throughout much of history. 📚 🎶