I have never loved a book more in my life, and then I come onto Goodreads to log it and see there’s 19 REVIEWS???? how the fuck is this possible. This is literally the best book I’ve ever read and I feel so lucky to have found it. I will read it a million times in my life I just know it. Greta, you have done me so right. There’s something so validating about the voice of this author that makes me feel less alone for being the way I am and thinking the way I do. I just love it so much. How is this character exactly like me!!! So specifically relatable. Like a long zodiac reading that’s actually accurate. Ugh. So good.
“My Margiela flats came in the mail today. They fit me perfectly but they don't change me. I don't want to walk in the rain. It seems so boring, the distance between my house and CVS. There's too much time and nothing to fill it with except my thoughts and music but I'm tired of music.”
“Men get mad when you write about them and it's like... I'm cementing your name in history through all of time or until the cloud or wherever this is all stored stops working.”
most relatable (i have been there one time): “Then I tried to steal a book from Sovereign House but I didn't want any of them.”
A very personal account of life as a twenty something woman in modern society dealing with the onslaught of societal pressures, the strange political landscape and impact of the digital age. Reads as a series of continuous journal entries varying from food logs to introspective metaphors and reflections on grappling with one’s sense of self/identity, relationships and purpose.
I’ve always been terribly afraid of deep introspection—certain I wouldn’t like what I’d find. Thankfully, Greta has no such fear. She examines every corner of her emotional psyche and lays it bare on the page. By the end, I felt I knew her better than anyone.