Glossy: Ambition, Beauty, and the Inside Story of Emily Weiss's Glossier
Marisa Meltzer
Baby's first audiobook and boy, was the narrator awful. Was an interesting enough look into the founder of Into The Gloss and Glossier, though nothing groundbreaking.
Everyone Is Lying to You
Jo Piazza
A murder mystery set in the world of tradwife influencers. I enjoyed the twist!
Mean Moms
Emma Rosenblum
Salacious, trashy fluff akin to reading celeb gossip. You'll figure out the villian easily, though you're going to root for no one.
One True Loves
Taylor Jenkins Reid
A poignant tale of love, loss, growth, and the human condition. Bring tissues!
Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism
Sarah Wynn-Williams
Boy, was Sarah trauma bonded to her job at Facebook! Seeing how Facebook powers the disinformation scheme made me want to scream.
Play Nice
Rachel Harris
September Book Of The Month Club Pick
The real horror was how insufferable this book was.
Women and Girls on the Autism Spectrum
Sarah Hendrickx with Jess Hendrickx
Incredibly affirming reading the lived experiences of other autistic women. I showed my husband the chapter on alexithymia because it spoke to me; I've always struggled in cognitive behavioral therapy because I cannot identify or describe my feelings.
Cultish
Amanda Montell
Cults are my special interest so Cultish was a big disappointment. I don't mind an irreverently written nonfiction book, but this was a stream of consciousness from a podcaster, not an academic who had something meaningful to say.
Heavenly Tyrant
Xiran Jay Zhao
This really suffered from second-book-of-a-trilogy syndrome.
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Coming back to drop a star because Zheng was such a negging, abusive piece of shit and everything about the forced relationship between him and Zeitan was uncomfortable. I do not like dubious consent in sexual relationships! (Zeitan spent most of the book as his hostage, that is not a situation where one
can consent to sex. The book tried to frame it in a way where she was making an empowered choice, but THAT IS NOT POSSIBLE.) This book was a huge step back from Iron Widow, which was earnest, but flawed.
I hate not finishing a series, so we'll see if book three can redeem itself any.
I hate not finishing a series, so we'll see if book three can redeem itself any.
Red City
Marie Lu
October Book Of The Month Club Pick
Interesting world building!
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Mentors becoming sexually involved with their barely legal mentees that they knew since they were children squicked me out. The star-crossed lovers angle was the weakest part of the book; the two leads shallow childhood friendship did not make for a convincing slow burn yearn. Nonetheless, the world itself has me curious enough to want to read whatever comes next.
