Rose-Coloured Book Reviews
Plus Traylor Fan Fic, Bats, Female Ghosts, Lowercase Texts, the Case for Snoozing, and a Painting Bird 🌹📚🏈🦇👻😴🎨
Welcome to your mid-week quickie! This is your bonus, even-less-strings-attached newsletter to get you through the week.
What’s On My Mind
This is the only thing I’ve been thinking about:
Specifically, pages 240-241 and the acknowledgements. IYKYK.
Weekly Reads
The Woman In Me (Duh) 🌹
How Britney Spears Is Finally Taking Control of Her Own Story 📚
The best review I’ve seen so far. The below captures my thoughts exactly:
“The Woman in Me isn’t a great book. It skims where it should excavate, hitting all the topics its reader is hungry for, but fails to make a meal of most anecdotes. We learned more details about the conservatorship from the in-depth, credible reporting on it by the New York Times than from The Woman in Me. Spears is scant on stories from the studio. She opens up, but doesn’t linger. A fantastic profile or sit-down interview would have added texture to Britney’s story at this juncture. There are plenty of places she could go for softballs—Zane Lowe or Drew Barrymore would kill to have her. But she doesn’t have to. She says her piece in the book and shares to the extent she feels comfortable—and that’s all the public, or the media, is entitled to.”
Justin Timberlake Giving The Performance of His Career 🙄
I may have to steal this as my new My Side Piece tagline:
“If you are reading this newsletter, I hope you’re well, unless you are Justin Timberlake in which case I hope you are horrible.”
This Email Is About A Living Bat 🦇
A silly and sweet story about a bat in a playground.
“It’s remarkable how quickly people can move from, “I’m scared of that,” to, “We should kill it.”
NFL Boyfriends Are The Hottest New It Girl Accessory 🏈
Just another way Taylor is putting Travis on the map.
“It could be a natural progression of the girl’s girl summer, a sporty epilogue to the summer of the Barbie movie, and the rise of the lovable himbo. Or it could be the viral realization that the skinny, tattooed, pseudo-intellectual guy is actually kind of a d*ck”
Why Are There So Many Female Ghosts? 👻
It’s a man’s world, but a woman’s afterlife.
“For past women who may not have had the right to own property, represent themselves in court, or even keep their last names, a ghost story may be the most powerful means of being remembered.”
One-Liners
🏈 Offside: The Taylor and Travis fan fiction that’s causing Bad Blood.
🎧 In the zone. My fave Britney podcast is doing a super deep dive of the book.
🧠 Hmm. How do we create core memories?
😴 Zzzzz. The scientific defence for snoozing.
🆘 Red flag. “If a guy texts me in lowercase, I’m going to assume he’s been ran through.”
Serotonin Boost!
This rescued bird found a new life leading painting classes for people 🎨
Last Thought
