June Recommendations Roundup
What are all the badass women reading, watching, and listening to this month? Keep reading to find out!
Riley’s emotions are back - and they find themselves joined by new emotions that want to take over Riley's head! Inside Out 2 opened in theaters yesterday! You can watch the trailer here.
After New York City emptied out in March 2020, Glynnis MacNicol, aged forty-six, unmarried with no children, spent sixteen months alone in her tiny Manhattan apartment. The isolation was punishing. A year without touch. Women are warned of invisibility as they age, but this was an extreme loneliness no one can prepare you for. When the opportunity to sublet a friend’s apartment in Paris arose, MacNicol jumped on it. What follows is a decadent, joyful, unexpected journey into one woman’s pursuit of radical enjoyment. You can read more and get your copy here.
The four Jacobson children were raised to respect the value of a dollar. Their mother reused tea bags and refused to pay retail; their father taught them to budget before he taught them to ride a bike. And yet, now that they’re adults, their financial lives are in disarray. The siblings reunite when their newly widowed father puts their Jersey Shore beach house on the market. Packing up childhood memories isn’t easy, especially when there’s other drama brewing. When one of the siblings sees an ad for a Powerball drawing, he and his sisters go in on tickets while their brother Matthew passes. All hell breaks loose when one of the tickets is a winner and three of the four Jacobsons become overnight millionaires. Without their mother’s guidance, and with their father busy playing pickleball in a Florida retirement village, the once close-knit siblings search for comfort in shiny new toys instead of each other. It’s not long before the Jacobsons start to realize that they’ll never feel rich unless they can pull their family back together. You can read more and get your copy here.
After years of relentlessly racing up the professional ladder, Jennifer Romolini reached the kind of success many crave: a high-profile, C-suite dream job, a book well-received enough that reporters wanted to know the secrets to her success, and a gig traveling around the country giving speeches on “making it.” She had a handsome and clever husband, a precocious child. But beneath this polished surface was a powder keg of unresolved trauma and chronic overwork. It was all about to blow. Written with self-deprecation and wit, Ambition Monster is a gutsy and powerful look at workaholism and the addictive nature of achievement, the lingering effect of childhood trauma, and the failures of our modern rat race. Ambition Monster is a singular excavation of selfhood, an essential interrogation about the way we work, and an inspiring and affirming call to always bet on yourself. You can read more and get your copy here.
The twentieth century American department store: a palace of consumption where every wish could be met under one roof. In this hothouse atmosphere, three women rose to the top. In the 1930s, Hortense Odlum of Bonwit Teller came to her husband's department store as a housewife tasked with attracting more shoppers like herself and wound up running the company. Dorothy Shaver of Lord & Taylor championed American designers during World War II--before which US fashions were almost exclusively Parisian copies--becoming the first businesswoman to earn a $1 million salary. And in the 1960s Geraldine Stutz of Henri Bendel re-invented the look of the modern department store. In When Women Ran Fifth Avenue, journalist Julie Satow draws back the curtain on three visionaries who took great risks, forging new paths for the women who followed in their footsteps. This stylish account, rich with personal drama and trade secrets, captures the department store in all its glitz, decadence, and fun, and showcases the women who made that beautifully curated world go round. You can read more and get your copy here.
In this emotional and enveloping novel, Lisa Wingate traces the story of children abandoned by the law and the battle to see justice done, all while giving voice to the ‘lost’ children of American history. It’s a seamlessly crafted tale of tragedy, resilience, and triumph. You can read more and get your copy here.
Lots happening in page-to-screen news!
Keira Knighly has been tapped to star in the adaptation of The Woman in Cabin 10 – you can read about it here.
Laura Dern and Margaret Qualley will star in Forever, Interrupted, a limited series adaptation of the Taylor Jenkins Read novel. More here and…
Tomorrow, Tomorrow, Tomorrow is being adapted for the big screen! Read all about it here.
I’ll admit it – I’m intrigued by the idea of hosting a cookbook club meeting! Here’s where I’m getting ideas for the event!
Barbie releasing new role-model athlete line to encourage girls to stay in sports. You can check them out here!
And finally, at the risk of revealing too much about my age (!), can I say how excited I am to check out Andrew McCarthy’s Brat Pack documentary?! The Breakfast Club, Pretty in Pink, St. Elmo’s Fire…so many great memories tied to those shows! You can watch the Brats trailer here.