Are you feeling anxious? Are you feeling like you might do something crazy? Not like, call-out-of-work-to-watch-Netflix crazy, or start-an-Etsy-business crazy, but like, try to murder your husband because he's taken a lover and you appear like a Normal Well-Adjusted Incredibly Patient and Privileged White Lady crazy? THEN HAVE I GOT A BOOK FOR YOU. Gone Girl (by Gillian Flynn) has re-inspired and entire genre of "psychological thrillers" in which some incredibly rich, impossibly posh white bitch either thinks her husband is cheating, or wants you to believe her husband is cheating, or finds her husband cheating, and then she may or may not unravel and kill him instead of just taking the kids and moving in with her sister. This narrative is impossibly boring. And yet, I binge-listened to another book with the same plot, The Silent Wife, by ASA Harrison. Is this story compelling? No. Is it ground-breaking? No. Is it well written? Not really. Jodi Brett, alleged...
You Are a Badass At Making Money by Jen Sincero So I've been listening to You Are A Badass At Making Money by Jen Sincero and the thing that I'm most struck by is that it's completely fucking woowoo. This is like, spend $85,000 going to some fucking life coaching bullshit. This is like if you just want money just think about money and it'll come to you bullshit. This is like encouraging people to get sucked in by pyramid schemes and Ponzi schemes and make completely irresponsible decisions bullshit. This advice is advice that works for white ladies that have a safety net. This advice is advice that works for people who have something to lose, but don't really have something to lose. When she's talking about going from living in a garage to earning six or seven figures, she doesn't have anyone else relying on her. She isn't responsible for taking care of anyone. She isn't in a relationship, she doesn't have children, she doesn't do e...