5 Good Things Under $50: Books TBR
LIFE'S TOO SHORT TO SPEND TOO MUCH MONEY, SAID SOMEONE WHO WAS ON A REALLY TIGHT BUDGET. OF COURSE IT'S ALWAYS GOOD TO SAVE, JUST AS LONG AS YOU'RE SAVING UP FOR A FUTURE SPLURGE.
GIRLS GIRLS GIRLS by Shoshana von Blanckensee * $27.90 hardcover pre-order
A coming-of-age debut novel by queer Jewish author Shoshana von Blanckensee who is an oncology nurse by day in Northern California and a writer all of the time. The story starts in the summer of 1996 with bestfriends who are secretly dating on a road trip from Long Island, New York to San Francisco. It’s an exploration of love, coming out, survival and religion.
THIS IMMACULATE BODY by Emma Van Straaten * $20 hardcover
A story of obsession in the modern age. Alice cleans Tom’s flat every week, she finds herself spiraling deeper into infatuation. When they finally meet, the line between fantasy and reality become ever more blurred.
CULTURE CREEP by Alice Bolin * $26 hardcover
In seven stunning original essays, Alice Bolin turns her gaze to the myriad ways femininity is remixed and reconstructed by the pop culture of the computer age. The unlikely, often insidious forces that drive our popular obsessions are brilliantly cataloged, contextualized, and questioned in a kaleidoscopic style imitating the internet itself.
THE AGE OF INNOCENCE by Edith Wharton * $15.99 (check for sale price)
Edith Wharton’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Age of Innocence, is both a poignant story of frustrated love and an extraordinarily vivid, satirical record of a vanished world. As the scion of one of New York’s leading families, Newland Archer has been born into a life of sumptuous privilege and strict duty. But the arrival of the Countess Olenska, a free spirit who breathes clouds of European sophistication, makes him question the path on which his upbringing has set him. As his fascination with her grows, he discovers just how hard it is to escape the bonds of the society that has shaped him.
EVENINGS & WEEKENDS by Oisin McKenna * $15 hardcover
As Saturday night approaches, a set of friends’ lives are set to change forever. Temperatures in London are soaring and the weekend is about to begin…Strikingly heartfelt, sexually charged, and disarmingly comic, Oisín McKenna’s debut is a mesmerizing dive into the soul of a city and a searing look at what it takes to build a life there.
