What I Loved This Week (65)
I'm all about Millenial malaise, a brilliant TV adaptation and Nutella this week
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as the host!📚What I Read and Loved
Green Dot: I started this as an audiobook while cleaning my house, and it grabbed me instantly. I might have cleaned for an extra hour just to avoid stopping. It took me back to when I was 24 and making questionable decisions. This novel is the epitome of millennial malaise humor, and I’m here for it.
At twenty-four, Hera is a clump of unmet potential. To her, the future is nothing but an exhausting thought exercise, one depressing hypothetical after another. She’s sharp in more ways than one, adrift in her own smug malaise, until her new job moderating the comments section of an online news outlet―a role even more mind-numbing than it sounds―introduces her to Arthur, a middle-aged journalist. Though she's preferred women to men for years now, she soon finds herself falling into an all-consuming affair with him. She is coming apart with want and loving every second of it! Well, except for the tiny hiccup that Arthur has a wife―and that she has no idea Hera exists.
📺 What I Watched and Loved
Queenie: If you read the book (or even if you didn’t), I urge you to watch Queenie. It’s a 30-min “dramedy” depicting Queenie’s life unraveling after breaking up with her boyfriend. The adaptation is brilliant! (Hulu)
The Long Shadow:This 7-episode limited series is a fictional account of the true crime story of the Yorkshire serial killer. I appreciated that the victims' stories were front and center, as well as the misogyny of the police officers (AMC+)
Hit Man If you aren’t smitten by Glenn Powell by now, let me tell you, you will! For an action rom-com, this one was pretty good (Netflix)
🛍️ What I Bought and Loved
New snack alert! I picked these up for a beach day last weekend, and let me tell you, I couldn’t stop. The wafers are firm, and the filling is pretty much Nutella. What’s not to love??
💕 Micro-Joy
I love June! It’s less hot than July and August, and I can still go to the beach without feeling like I’m dying of heat stroke (people from SoFlo, IYKYK). Reading (in the shade) at the beach with a steady breeze is everything!
✅ To do List
Best news ever! Practical Magic 2 is upon us
The best audiobooks for long haul listening
Summer camp movies to stream this summer
🐰 Rabbit Holes I Went Into
Pronatalists are nuts
Places in the world when you get more bang for your buck
In wealth: The rise of the executive butler
Normcore oral history deep dive
It’s roadtrip season and this is where you should head to this year
An statistical analysis on why people hate Nickelback so much! (I really don’t, do you?)
🧜🏼♀️ Articles and Bits I loved
When will USA get better about sunscreens (I had NO idea on what’s stopping it)
They spent everything they had on life coaching??
- shared a “if you love X then read Y stack”, focused summer romances
The obsession with morning routines - I am obsessed with mine tbh
The diminishing returns of having good taste
😄 Free Happiness
Struggling at the gym? Try a tutu
👋🏼 Classifieds
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Ooh very excited to watch Queenie — thank you for the rec!
I do so look forward to your newsletters. Also, Practical Magic 2? YES PLEASE!