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Love Street: Pulp Romance for Modern Women
Visually arresting, irresistibly sexy, and ferociously funny, this faux 1980s pulp love magazine is the perfect beach read, coffee table accessory, or gift from the brain that brought you @theyellowhairedgirl. Dedicated to broken-hearted girls who will always love again . . . Have you ever hooked up with a homeless hottie who stole your heart, but then also your potato chips? Flaked out on friends and changed the course of your entire life after meeting the “perfect” guy before discovering his multiple undiagnosed anti-social personality disorders? Planned a What-Would-Dolly-Parton-Do day but then realized you have no hair spray and just ate raw cookie dough by yourself instead? If it’s happened to Leah Rachel, it can happen to you. Instagram’s insanely popular Yellow Haired Girl, unloads in this brutally funny and vibrantly illustrated book about love, fluids, resilience, pain, and owning the whole marvelous mess we call womanhood. Filled with quizzes, recipes for the lost, mad libs, puzzles, horoscopes, and raw personal essays, Love Street is packed with screw-it-all advice on sex, drugs, diets, dating, self-esteem, body image, friends, romance, masturbation, fashion, and crashing into love so fast and hard you’re as sure as your lost dignity it’s the real thing. This unique, eye-popping work of pulp art is both aspirational and cringingly relatable. This is for any woman who isn’t afraid to wear her heart on her sleeve, no matter how many times it’s been through the washer. Paper dolls included.
- GenresNonfiction
304 pages, Paperback
First published July 23, 2019
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August 7, 2019
I received this book for free as part of an Instagram tour (TLC Book Tours specifically) I did to promote the book.
I always love a good coffee table book and this one was perfect!
This book is a spoof on 80’s pulp love magazines. I loved the whole vibe of it. The photographs were amazing. The aesthetic was very retro Los Angeles meets millennial women.
I loved the antidotes that the author shared. Some of them were incredibly funny, like the first one, “George from the Beach!” Others were really insightful and relatable like “15 Reasons Why I Wore a Dress Like This” and “Ruby, Ruby, Ruby!”
The book also has some great one liners that accompany some of the pictures. My personal favorites were, “I wish I was full of donuts instead of anxiety” (pg. 72) and “One day we’ll look back on this period of unemployment and wish we had called it FREEDOM (pg. 2).
To complete the pulp love magazine experience, there’s a crossword puzzle, recipes, and horoscopes. If that wasn’t enough, there are even paper dolls included that depict women in various situations like new relationship and recently single. I thought the dolls were a very clever and fun touch.
Overall, this is the perfect coffee table book or gift for millennial women who love being in love.
I always love a good coffee table book and this one was perfect!
This book is a spoof on 80’s pulp love magazines. I loved the whole vibe of it. The photographs were amazing. The aesthetic was very retro Los Angeles meets millennial women.
I loved the antidotes that the author shared. Some of them were incredibly funny, like the first one, “George from the Beach!” Others were really insightful and relatable like “15 Reasons Why I Wore a Dress Like This” and “Ruby, Ruby, Ruby!”
The book also has some great one liners that accompany some of the pictures. My personal favorites were, “I wish I was full of donuts instead of anxiety” (pg. 72) and “One day we’ll look back on this period of unemployment and wish we had called it FREEDOM (pg. 2).
To complete the pulp love magazine experience, there’s a crossword puzzle, recipes, and horoscopes. If that wasn’t enough, there are even paper dolls included that depict women in various situations like new relationship and recently single. I thought the dolls were a very clever and fun touch.
Overall, this is the perfect coffee table book or gift for millennial women who love being in love.
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July 25, 2019Leah Rachel may still be finding her voice in the early stages of her career, but she’s quickly attaining the recognition she deserves. As the writer (and creator) of Chambers, Netflix’s recent horror series about a girl whose heart transplant goes awry, Rachel’s definitely got chops for writing scary stories, but her true writing interests lie elsewhere.
On her Instagram page @theyellowhairedgirl (named presumably for her Lichtenstein-esque avatar) Rachel pairs pulp magazine scenes with contemporary captions, illuminating women’s dating/working/existing woes. She continues that writing tradition in her first book, Love Street: Pulp Romance for Modern Women (William Morrow).
In Love Street, Rachel describes experiences she’s had and experiences that will be recognizable to many women. Being ghosted by a crush! Having unfulfilling sex! Getting crudely hit on by (male) family friends!
The latter example is poignantly described in a short list of the reasons why Rachel wore a particular dress to a wedding. There are fifteen solid reasons listed, including the blue color of the dress, which made Rachel feel “like a really pretty, unpretentious big-city Jew” and the fact that her ex was in attendance with his pregnant girlfriend.
You know what’s not a reason she wore that dress? So she’d be harassed: the account of this upsetting encounter is capped by her best friend’s father suggesting that if she didn’t want to be harassed, “Then why did you wear a dress like that?” Rachel highlights this with a strikethrough, one of many stylistic choices she makes in this book.
The rest of the review: https://booktrib.com/2019/07/take-a-s...
On her Instagram page @theyellowhairedgirl (named presumably for her Lichtenstein-esque avatar) Rachel pairs pulp magazine scenes with contemporary captions, illuminating women’s dating/working/existing woes. She continues that writing tradition in her first book, Love Street: Pulp Romance for Modern Women (William Morrow).
In Love Street, Rachel describes experiences she’s had and experiences that will be recognizable to many women. Being ghosted by a crush! Having unfulfilling sex! Getting crudely hit on by (male) family friends!
The latter example is poignantly described in a short list of the reasons why Rachel wore a particular dress to a wedding. There are fifteen solid reasons listed, including the blue color of the dress, which made Rachel feel “like a really pretty, unpretentious big-city Jew” and the fact that her ex was in attendance with his pregnant girlfriend.
You know what’s not a reason she wore that dress? So she’d be harassed: the account of this upsetting encounter is capped by her best friend’s father suggesting that if she didn’t want to be harassed, “Then why did you wear a dress like that?” Rachel highlights this with a strikethrough, one of many stylistic choices she makes in this book.
The rest of the review: https://booktrib.com/2019/07/take-a-s...
October 10, 2020
Hilarious. The author and I have nothing in common (other than being from the Midwest) and yet I found this so relatable. Brutally honest, crazy, and fun, this author owns the title of being the driver of the hot mess express and runs with it. It was like reading a trashy magazine for singles who can’t seem to get love right. A light, easy read, perfect for car trip, beach day, or cozy evening on the couch 💋
October 15, 2019
It cured me.
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December 12, 2021DNF @36%
January 2, 2020
The personal essays were interesting and the book feels very honest. But on the whole it's lacking something. Too many pictures that take up the whole page and not enough content.
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