Gayitri Ramesh > Recent Status Updates

Intro page x : “More crucially, the kind of power being fetishized in popular culture on the cusp of the twenty-first century wasn’t the sort you accrue over a lifetime, in the manner of education or money or professional experience. It was all about youth, attention, and a willingness to be in on the joke, even if we were ultimately the punch line.”

rlly liking the different perspectives each chapter

“There’s so much he doesn’t know. So much I can’t tell him. And so much I never will.”
loving the thrill of this book so far

awwwweeee

awwwwwwwwweeeee

“When you think about it, there’s very little parents are able to keep from you once you progress to adulthood. There is nobody you know better than a person who spent thirty-plus years barring their hopes, fears, everything to you, in the way they tied your shoelaces, made you lunch, paid for your college.”

“Money was a difficult thing to hold up as one’s reason for living.”

hoping for nurse gaylord & jack jr

“Kerry Washington was Olivia Pope, the first Black female lead actor since Diahann Caroll in Julia in 1967.”

i am in fact on the edge of my seat waiting to learn more. 10/10 narrator

almost bawled my eyes out

“Only about 4 percent of actors in the Screen Actors Guild and American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) union make enough for Plan 1 health insurance and that’s $20,000 a year. That is our reality.”

I KNEW IT WAS A TRAP

“And I just didn’t want to see you get hurt.” this is sweet.. not everyone’s parents are their best friends, but it does seem that June was misunderstanding her mom (and likely still is). her mom telling her to explore other things does come off like she isn’t creative & doesn’t like June’s career, but she just wanted a safe, reliable future for her daughter, not unreasonable at all..

June did have some good ideas a few pages back… however she doesn’t want to explore them. the IP thing does sound up her alley, all she does is have to add onto an idea— something she’s done before lol

this page is hilarious

june 100% has some issues & perhaps some problems.

“We might even compare Geoff’s publication history to mine.”
i thought june’s first book was a flop tho.. unless of course she means the most recent one + it’s controversy? & later on the page she admits again her debut novel didn’t go well.. so not seeing the similarity other than they both were probably obsessed with Athena

“That I wrote The Last Front because I’ve studied the history, and because I care about the community.”
you didn’t tho

does June only text Eden’s Angels about criticism she’s getting orrrrr

ayy goodreads s/o

“Athena had always made a big deal about how her parents had immigrated to the States without speaking a word of English, but Mrs. Liu’s English sounds fine to me.”
thankfully we are NOT supposed to like the narrator. here is another example of why i don’t.