pop cultural curiosity

I love pop culture and I spend a great amount of time consuming it. Would be a shame not to recommend my favs to the world. 

2019 Hit list:

Books
  1. Trevor Noah - Born A Crime // I did absolutely not expect to be so blown away by this book, hands down the best book I've read this year. Trevor Noah does an amazing job at writing with humour and honesty about being born to a white Swiss father and a black Xhosa mother and being raised by a single mother in South Africa.
  2. Liv Strömquist - Fruit Of Knowledge // All her books and this one in particular might be soon on my all time favourites list because her humour combined with facts and knowledge are simply amazing.
  3. Carola Rackete - Hoffen Statt Handeln // I read this because I expected to learn more about Rackete herself and her experience with the Sea-Watch 3 incident, what I got was a well-informed account on climate justice, migration, global heating, globalisation and social movements and how it is all tied together and what we have to do now.
  4. Soraya Chemaly - Rage Becomes Her // Chemaly's book is about rage and gender and how they are intertwined and more so about how women can use their anger for positive social change. Must read!
  5. Georgia Hardstark & Karen Kilgariff - Stay Sexy And Don't Get Murdered // Love their podcast, love their life advice even more.
  6. Angie Thomas - The Hate U Give // Read it in one sitting until 5AM because I could not put it down. Heartbreaking novel about issues such as racism, racial profiling, police violence and class differences in the US. 
  7. Rupi Kaur - The Sun And Her Flowers // Her poems are everything.
Music:
  1. Milky Chance - Mind The Moon // Their third album has again managed to capture a slightly different tone than the last two and yet sound so unmistakably like Milky Chance that you immediately recognise them. 
  2. Charli XCX, Chris - Gone // Best song of this year.
  3. Mal Élevé - Planet // So timely, so necessary and just the most recent addition to Mal Élevé's great artistry.
  4. Glass Animals, Denzel Curry - Tokyo Drifting // Awesome comeback after the accident and subsequent long recovery of the drummer of Glass Animals.
Movies:
  1. Rafiki - Wanuri Kahiu
  2. Booksmart - Olivia Wilde
  3. Free Solo - Jimmy Chin & Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi
  4. Mario - Marcel Gisler

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All Time Favourites - A Mix List
  1. Call me by your name - André Aciman // Might be the most beautifully written love story of all times.
  2. Laurie Penny - Bitch Doctrine // Laurie Penny writes down what I think in a coherent and mind-blowing way with humour sprinkled on top, every book is a revelation. 
  3. Harry Potter (especially parts 3, 5, and 7) // I still wish sometimes it all were true.
  4. Kate Tempest - The Bricks That Built The Houses // The writing style of Tempest has me longing for her second book since I devoured this one ages ago.
  5. Janelle Monáe - Dirty Computer // Loved the album so much I have written my bachelor thesis about it.
  6. Christine and the Queens - Chaleur Humaine (or Chris) // Chris is an amazing innovative artist that dares boldness and changes the music industry.
  7. Hidden Figures - Theodore Melfi // Such important stories to tell, I am happy it was done perfectly.
  8. Grand Budapest Hotel - Wes Anderson // It is always a pleasure to see something done differently, something new. This movie is exactly that.
  9. Jenny Nordberg - The Hidden Girls Of Kabul // An outstanding piece of quality journalism.
  10. Naomi Alderman - The Power // Best fiction book.
  11. bell hooks - all about love // There is no greater book about love than this fine piece of literature by bell hooks.

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