social commentary on fangirls' lasting impact on internet culture; author is a tech & culture writer for The Atlantic
Everything I Need I Get from You
on my TBR (to be read)
Renowned journalist Nell Frizzell explores what happens when a woman begins to ask herself: should I have a baby? We have descriptors for many periods of life―adolescence, menopause, mid-life crisis, quarter-life crisis―but there is a period of profo...
Autofiction. Emily Segal, artist and trend forecaster in her 20s, tries to tell the future by reading the present. Literature finds commercial form in the shape of eXe, a mysterious and well-funded internet start-up that offers her a job. A conceptua...
memoir of an anthropologist who marries rich, moves to the Upper East Side and “goes native”, performing upperclass rites and rituals like securing a Birkin and enrolling her kids in elite primary schools - a fun read, not rock solid research or anal...
Primates of Park Avenue: A Memoir
Interesting read by 90's travel icon Rick Steves; reads almost like a memoir as Rick explains his “vanilla” approach to travel as a means to get “middle of the road” Americans to think outside the US. Lighthearted & nostalgic for those of us who ...
Travel as a Political Act (Rick Steves)
my only cookbook LOL, I love it tho
Cook This Book: Techniques and Recipes
Sociologist & former model “goes native” in a study of pretty privilege, power structures and status in the nightclubs of NYC and Miami. Good balance of storytelling & academic insight (but nothing close to dense theory or a textbook). Fun re...
Very Important People: Status and Beauty
a good book to skim for us sensitive girlies <3
The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive
beautiful edition of one of my FAVORITE classic lit books - gothic romance <3
Frankenstein (Penguin Clothbound Classics)
another all-time FAVORITE dark, gothic classic lit (in my favorite cover art lol)
