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Charli XCXs latest album is the template for hot-weather antics.
Big feelings, slutty outfits, and partying are all on the menu.
Of course not; that would be insane.
So without further ado:
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Look, theres a lot of tumult.
As a narrator, Jane is somehow clear-headed and self-deluded at the same time, the perfect brat POV.
Its a postcolonial takedown of Jane becoming a missionary in India will fix all my problems Eyre.
Thats only part of it.
(The other 30 percent is feeling out of place at school and a thirdspoilery thing.)
No amount of speech will bring the characters as close together as they want.
.Von dutch
From the No.
1 bitch of New Journalism,Slouching Towards Bethlehemis Didions ode to California.
If you recognized the Chateau Marmonts furniture, this book is for you.
Her writing romanticized everything, even meeting the Manson girls.
It also talks a lot about falling in love (again and again) in Italy.
.Rewind
Youd think this book about mother-daughter trauma would be for Apple, wouldnt you?
The same wounds wind through generations in this book.
Well, with less concern for pop superstardom.
Someone who challenged them, intimidated them, and comforted them in equal measure.
The book touches on topics like political activism, body image, and class.
(Side note: this rec is for the original version of Girl, so confusing.
The appropriate book for theLorde remixisBobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin, by Marion Meade.
.Apple
Many options, by everybody
There are too many books about generational trauma!
Too many stories, too many rotten apples.
You could go forOn Earth Were Briefly Gorgeous, by Ocean Vuong,if youre in an epistolary mood.
OrThe Namesake, by Jhumpa Lahiri, to honor Charlis Indian roots.
The possibilities are endless.
.B2b
Truly, an Eve Babitz book could work for almost every song onbrat.
The California hedonism of Von dutch bringsSlow Days Fast Companyto mind.
The new co-biography about Babitz and Didion is perfect Girl, so confusing material.
If you want good evidence for why exes shouldnt make a run at stay friends, readSex and Rage.
.Mean girls
You know we had to do it to them.
Shes everywhere, shes kind of annoying about it, and shesa lot darkerthan her ubiquity would hint at.
Its eerily similar vibes.
Haden-Guest makes Studio 54 sound like both the best and worst party in the world.
More important, it was a party no one was really capable of stopping.
You think the feds can stop a good time?
The story starts before Studio 54s founding and ends only with Steve Rubells death.
Its the little things, you know?
.Guess
Charli saved her sluttiest slut anthem for the deluxe edition.
Are you born a slut or are you made one?
Does it suck to be a slut, or does it in fact rock?
These are the questions that are left overanswered by the debut collection from Dopamine Press.
.Spring Breakers
Why are the pretty ones always insane?
Theres glamour and humor in casual cruelty.
