Welcome to Litsy!

Stories like this one are the reason I think a lot of people are invested in the lives of celebrities - and why we grieve them when they‘re gone. Klam celebrates that engagement with the lives of people we‘ve never met, but feel like we know, while also pointing out the occasional dark side of celebrity & our fascination with it. Overall though, I could NOT stop smiling. (And look, the time Kyle MacLachlan liked my Tweet was THE BEST DAY, okay?)

Yessssss, AJ, you totally did. 😂😂😂 (But also ohhhh, girl, that‘s so unfortunate. He‘s such a scumbag.) #thestarsinoureyes #julieklam #ajbrooks #ajlee

I like to think I‘d be perfectly calm and collected in being faced with Leo DiCaprio. Let‘s be honest, though, I‘d probably just pass out. (Although look, he‘s getting even more handsome as he gets older, and that‘s just not fair.) #thestarsinoureyes #julieklam #leonardodicaprio

I‘m only on page 17, and I‘ve probably laughed out loud at least 17 times. #thestarsinoureyes #julieklam

Well, while I‘m multitasking, might as well go for a hat trick, right? 😂 [And let‘s be honest, this is a thought process that plagues my daily life. “Oh my God, Chrissy Teigen was killing it on Twitter today...oh my God why do I care?” (The answer is because Chrissy Teigen is my queen. Whatever.)] The point is, I‘m totally one of those people, & while I should probably be ashamed, I like to think I like fun celebs. #thestarsinoureyes #julieklam

Evening (and weekend) plans

Loving this audiobook which is totally satisfying the People reading, celebrity watcher side of my personality.

I wanted and expected a lot more from this book -- something with social criticism, stats, psychology and-in depth introspection. It was fluffy and padded out
with quotes from people JK knows, many of whom were clearly extremely privileged -- they hadn't met these celebs randomly ont the street or at stage door but at mommy and daddy's parties or some such. It was clearly written/edited super fast -- there are mentions of very recent events.

Um, do we? I don't think we do. If I met Queen Elizabeth I'd be blown away. It'd be a huge privilege, and I'd never ask for a selfie. The way an American person thinks a British person feels is not always how an actual British person feels!

These two books were perfect presents for this girl who ushered in her birthday rewatching West Wing episodes... 🎈🍾🎁💕

3 hours left of our 16 hour drive today. Hoping to make a good dent in this book by @JulieKlam #whatimreadingnow

Eh. I can't say I was super impressed with what she had to say. It mostly seemed self-explanatory to me. But it was well-written and pretty fun to read. Though I will say that I skipped the "intermissions" entirely - I didn't think it was very interesting to read stories about pseudo-celebrities meeting bigger celebs.

On to the next book! I really love when authors tell us point blank why they are writing something

This was a quick enough read, and her interviews were fun (hey, Timothy Hutton), but it was a bit bland after recently having read Too Fat Too Slutty Too Loud. I had been hoping Klam would dig into WHY we feel compelled to feed the celebrity machine but it stayed pretty surface level, in my opinion. I would have liked an interview with an uber-celebrity (like an Emma Watson) to get into sudden-fame-in-the-social-media-world.

I hate to tell her this, but it's just a baseball diamond by a farmhouse and a cornfield. We used to have a lot of those in rural Iowa before every park and school got professional level ball fields. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

(The better celebrity sighting is Ashton and Mila downtown in IC at SpoCo. Or in the bookstore - we have a code to alert our kids lead ?)

Julie Klams' hysterical insiteful look at celebrity,why are we so so involved in their lives why did we mourn whenJenn&Brad broke up.Two people except for their celebrity most of us do not really know.Mixed in with Julie's real life stories this is a wonderful read.

This book has these fantastic intermissions that are "real people" encounters with celebrities. ?

Also, these are our new kitties: Lord Dresden Drizzleton and Sir Watney Swizzlestick of Little Kittyton. ? Can you guess which is which?

NEW @JulieKlam book!!!! ⭐️⭐️