Andreea’s Reviews > Famesick > Status Update

“It was a bit like the great Titanic debate—was there only room for Rose
on that floating door, or could she have made room for him on there, too? Who knows—neither of them could think. They were too fucking cold.”

This was an incredibly difficult part of the book to read. Medical neglect AND medical abuse? Uuuf girl 🫂

If I didn't have to wake up early tomorrow I would read until I finished it. The way she's explaining here the similarity between being famous and being sick, the circularity of both conditions, the sickening side effects of each new medication and public fix, is quite possibly the most clearheaded anyone has ever been. I see now that there are levels to introspection and Lena's at the “hyper advanced” one

“It was easy enough for the people around me to write it off as jealousy, but hatred feels like hatred, no matter who’s directing it at you.” 🚬

“But having just enough to maintain the sheen of cultural currency was the same, to any onlooker, as the currency itself. The Internet wasn’t dealing in nuance.”

“OCD is nothing if not a disease that envelops the family whole, as the sufferer ropes everyone they love into their obsessions and compulsions, checks and checks again, demands assurances no one can give”

“Given my demand for a Tim Riggins look-alike, when Adam Driver walked into the room—all ears and nose, gangly and pigeon-toed, lurching toward the audition chair like a reanimated corpse in a silent film —I was…confused. I tried to shake his hand, and he only grunted.” this is the funniest woman alive

This is compulsively readable

“For someone who had made a study of having the right language, I could never summon it when the subject was my own constantly fluctuating level of ease with the outside world.”

“When younger artists tell me about what seem like small triumphs—
getting accepted to a festival, getting a note of encouragement from an artist they love—I always try and remind them to celebrate these early wins. Those first experiences of creative acceptance are unparalleled, because you don’t know enough to worry.”