pickI loved these funny essays about life as a Southerner in New York and those quirky sayings and behaviors that people don‘t always understand who weren‘t raised in the south. Well observed and hilarious. Great quick read!
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pickI loved these funny essays about life as a Southerner in New York and those quirky sayings and behaviors that people don‘t always understand who weren‘t raised in the south. Well observed and hilarious. Great quick read!
pickNeeded something to listen to that would #makemelol and this did! Quick collection of light short stories that is read by the author with her amazing Southern accent that can just drip with sarcasm. #booked2020 @Cinfhen @4thhouseontheleft @BarbaraTheBibliophage
so-soJia Tolentino is clearly a talented writer, but I felt like this essay collection was overlong and under-edited. It often felt like she spent more time rehashing and summarizing when she could have been using her research and observations as a foundation to make more new points of her own. Lots of love for this collection out there but for me it felt like a chore to finish.
This is fabulous. I don‘t know if I‘ll read every essay but I‘m enjoying it.
pickThis essay collection is fresh and sharp, lean and tight, moving deftly from autobiographical material to cultural commentary and back again. The author is smart and self-aware, and yet she doesn‘t take herself too seriously. She accepts herself as the walking talking contradiction that she is. And maybe that‘s the biggest takeaway of all — in today‘s world how can any of us be anything but? ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
I had to read and reread this paragraph before I finally realized that Trump is the precise personality that FB depends on to fuel its massive hellish empire. If Trump didn‘t exist in real life, FB would have had to create him.
‘It‘s very easy, under conditions of artificial but continually escalating obligation, to find yourself organizing your life around practices you find ridiculous and possibly indefensible. Women have known this intimately for a long time .... When you are a woman, the things you like get used against you. Or, alternatively, the things that get used against you have all been prefigured as things you should like.‘
FB‘s goal of showing people only what they were interested in seeing resulted within a decade in the end of solidarity. This choice, combined with the company‘s $ incentive to continually trigger heightened emotional responses in its users, ultimately solidified the current norm in newsmedia consumption: today we mostly consume news that corresponds with our ideological alignment, which has been FINE-TUNED TO MAKE US FEEL SELF-RIGHTEOUS & ALSO MAD
My first book haul of 2020, a late Christmas gift from my sister. I'm excited for these 😁
