Girl, Unframed | 
so-soI loved Caletti‘s A Heart in a Body in the World & the conversation we had about it was one of the best ever in my book club. Unfortunately, I‘ve not enjoyed her subsequent books quite as much. In this one, Sydney is spending the summer with her Hollywood starlet mother. And her mother‘s sketchy boyfriend. I wish there was a better story to this YA story about body image, attraction, harassment and, art. Important topics, ok execution & story.
Happy to have a rainbow to guide me home & an #audiobook for company. 🌈🌧
We‘ll, it‘s been weeks since I‘ve posted on her again… 🙈 I don‘t know why I‘m finding it so hard to say active on here, but I‘m trying!
Listening to the tagged audiobook while I make some more press on nails for the Etsy shop! If you‘d like to see a specific book cover or bookish picture made into a set of nails, tag me in the photo, and I‘ll do my best to make it happen! ❤️🔥
Here‘s the link, if you‘re interested
https://etsy.me/3hZSZx2
pickAt 16, Sydney is suddenly aware that she‘s visible to men. This book covers it all: what it‘s like to be a woman living among men, the “rules” women follow whether they want to or not, and questions why the same choices elicit different reactions based on gender. This book argues that women have every right to be themselves and take up space in the world without being judged or objectified.
Such a wonderfully accurate description of what texting is like at the beginning of a relationship. Made me 😀
so-soGirl, Unframed is part mystery inspired by the murder of actress Lana Turner's boyfriend by her daughter in 1958, and part what happens to young women under the male gaze. Here Sydney is the daughter of actress Lila Shores, and has to deal with her mother's brutal but charming and connected (as in Mafia) boyfriend, Jake. Sydney is also falling in love for the first time, & dealing with all the sexism. Wish the book had focused more on the After.
pickA coming of age story that has an impending sense of doom right from the beginning. Sydney is spending the summer with her famous actress mother and has reservations about it. This book oozes tension and we are just waiting for the other shoe to drop. Sydney deals with what many women deal with-the uncomfortable looks, leers, and remarks from men. We see how Sydney tries to process and deal with these things and how they impact her.
