I Love Shopping

by Ren Cook, Lauren Cook

Ren Cook’s I Love Shopping brings the specificities of relationships into relief, creating an expanse in which it is the things which assert that an orchid is different from a scientist or a ballerina are also the characteristics which underpin their commonality. Based in a fantastic world of speakers which could be anyone, Cook invites readers to place themselves inside the minds of the entire population of the world, be it an ancient rock, a child, a rose bush, honeysuckle, or the last of a particular type of orchid, eaten by a skunk in the night.

Genres: Poetry, Fiction

59 pages, ebook

First published February 19, 2019

About the author

This author also writes as Lauren Cook

Reviews

[Andre Aguiar]

Temos muitas maneiras de descrever e nomear as coisas que não entendemos. Às vezes, apenas ouvir o que alguém pensa já é religião suficiente para mim.

[Maya Campbell · Rating 5 out of 5]

LOVED THIS!!! I read it in riverside park while watching a little league game! I have been coveting this book for a long time and it was well worth the wait. Such a treat!

[W · Rating 4 out of 5]

Not as successful as sex goblin but whatever

[kari trail · Rating 5 out of 5]

“if you pick up an animal and put it down somewhere else it will just keep living its life in that new spot.”

is it the pink times new roman typesetting or lauren cook’s delightful silly sexy shocking writing that had me wooooowed? probably both! full of surprises and brilliant little lines around each corner.

yes i like this theory:
“my crazy idea is that evolutionarily there is some benefit to being materialistic because something developed in our brains to make us enjoy acquiring objects because of hunting and gathering... like it would be an evolutionary benefit to enjoy collecting objects because we have to collect food and feel attracted to food in the same way animals are.... so we like shopping because shopping replaced foraging... just a theory though.”

[Ky · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was so much more than I expected it to be.

[Hailey Skinner]

Some great one-liners here & some one-liners that made me blush, then bury my head in the sand, then hope my mom never picks this up thinking the cover is cute :-) <3

[Chanel Chapters]

The wind blows hard.

3.25 ⭐️

[katryna · Rating 5 out of 5]

5 STARS 5 STARS FOR EVERYONE THAT MAKES ME GO OOOOOOO AND OWWWWW AND WOOOOOAH AND WEEP I LOVE YOU LAUREN COOK

[Jon-Carlo · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very cool and pretty and awesome I love their clothes, stickers, and this was great too

[Natalie Wehrer · Rating 5 out of 5]

Sexy hot

[frogmiller · Rating 5 out of 5]

Beautiful stories, with unabashed honesty and detail that has left a profound impact on me. I first was introduced to this collection via an image of the "Here is my kinky roleplay" poem printed on a tshirt, that I probably found on twitter, in the same bright pink font style that characterizes each page. This led me to depop stores, Cook's instagram, and eventually, my adventure ended with an email chain between me and Cook, and being sent a full copy of the final google document. (for free!) I can't help but feel I have stumbled into a world not my own, and yet one that I thoroughly connect with, nonetheless.

[lia &#x1f429; · Rating 3 out of 5]

tricked me into reading poetry! cheeky bastard…

very corny at times pero lo cierto es que estaba muy ansiosa antes de empezarlo y me ayudó a aterrizar, es como si el libro fuera una serie de afirmaciones…. da la impresión de que estás leyendo los pensamientos de alguien pero son pensamientos interesantes y divertidos, un poco los que tendría un niño o alguien muy en paz consigo mismo

lo leí en el kindle y me da mucho fomo que la gente con la copia física lo leyó en times new roman rosa 🥲 also, no me cagó la intromisión de un panfleto sobre orquídeas en peligro de extinción o el intercambio de mensajes sobre avistamientos pastorales

[Natalie Marlin · Rating 4 out of 5]

A free associative whirlwind of human evolution, theological existentialism, interrogations into our interpersonal relationships, and what it takes for a being to survive and adapt across time. In a distinctly contemporary postmodern style, I Love Shopping transmutes the kind of questions we've been asking of our very existence for millennia into the bounds of our post-Internet absorption of information, where our longing text conversations rest just next to our obsessive Wikipedia crawls. Lauren Cook can make truly any subject captivating.

[Céu Isatto · Rating 5 out of 5]

Just. Incredible.

[Dante · Rating 3 out of 5]

"I wonder if heaven will have the skateboarders I kissed in middle school"

[Kiana · Rating 3 out of 5]

Picked up after the orchid section

[Aye Gomorrah · Rating 5 out of 5]

I read this outside and it is my new favorite book.

[wizard rooney · Rating 5 out of 5]

A major piece of rooney literature

[David Ste-Marie · Rating 5 out of 5]

Hehe

[Mitchell Nance · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fundamental

[anon · Rating 4 out of 5]

very fun i enjoyed

[Cassandra · Rating 4 out of 5]

The pink text was an EXCELLENT touch

[CMP · Rating 5 out of 5]

I thought about a reason to give this fewer than five stars and couldn't come up with one; honest, beautiful, funny; we get all three.

[Maisy Deanie Shrimp · Rating 4 out of 5]

Lauren Cook's writing style is so infectious. Everytime I read one of his books I feel like I'm even writing text messages in his voice.
Also I love it

[Joy Dunn · Rating 5 out of 5]

lol fun

[Elsie Coen]

no clue what to say about this. some lines i loved! some pages i did not care for

[Eunice · Rating 3 out of 5]

I was expecting Chris Kraus and this read more like a very philosophical instagram meme page.

Also, on page 24 there’s a grammatical error.