I truly had the best time recording this week‘s episode of my book podcast: a conversation with author Iman Hariri-Kia (A HUNDRED OTHER GIRLS), in which she makes her case for The Clique as empowering social commentary. Technically, we‘re covering book three, but our chat extends to the whole series and touches on matters of pop culture, insecurity, mean girls, class, and more. 💋 link to listen in my bio!
pickOkay this is really light but I enjoyed it so much and flew through it.. exactly what I needed. Would love to read something in the same vein; if you‘ve read this and have any comparison recommendations, send them my way!
pickVery entertaining. Shallow, but fun, and not poorly written.
pick3 ⭐️ - Light pick. This was a short, fast read and, overall fun, so I‘m more willing to look past some of its faults.
I don‘t really follow celebrity gossip (I still see it, but don‘t seek it out on purpose), but I was curious about this debut book by the anonymous Instagram figure deuxmoi.
I wasn‘t expecting some impressive biting satire, but I was a bit underwhelmed by a fairly straightforward workplace novel with minor romance elements.
Chapter 10: today we start the chapters about Virginia Woolf and Katherine Mansfield, who had a crazy #lovehate relationship. Lots of jealousy and backstabbing, while simultaneously working together! #chasteandunchaste #gossip #stolenideas #backstabbing #notstraighteningeachotherscrown #skipthepassive #totallyaggressive #pemberlittens
panThe MC overhears some gossip at her son‘s school and repeats it, setting in motion a sequence of events. TBH I thought the plot was preposterous. For one, without giving anything away, the MC moves back to the town where she lived as a teenager and seems to know no one who lives there. Also, not to be indelicate, but too many mentions of excrement that seemed gratuitous. Again, you can find tons of books that are better
#Gossip is one of the most popular #hobbies in Jane Austen‘s books, sometimes engaged in over #embroidery. Whether it‘s who has moved from #city to #country, the cost of #conveyances and #houses, or whose #children are #dancing with whom at #balls, many a #friendship includes making sport of one‘s neighbours.
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When Thomas Moore stayed in London for the first time in April 1799, he wrote to his mother: ‘… if I had indulged in going out often… there is scarce a night that I should not be at some female #gossip party, to drink tea, play a little crambo [a rhyming game], and eat a sandwich.‘
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