Girls' Night In - issue #273: amping up anticipation 🐚

Issue #273 - June 17, 2022
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Good morning!

What travel-adjacent, escapist content are you enjoying these days? Since we're headed to Florence and Tuscany this fall, reading a book set in the place we'll be visiting felt like a good way to psych myself up even further for our trip. Anticipation, after all, is a good thing.

After watching Stanley Tucci's show (twice!!) *and* Bobby and Giada's show (2 big personalities in Italy = good, delicious fun), I picked up Still Life by Sara Winman last week for another dose of anticipatory content. The book is set in 1944 against the backdrop of the war and follows the lives of an English soldier and a middle-aged art historian whose stories intimately connect. It's not a travelogue by any means, but after just a few pages in, I'm loving the transportive writing and descriptions of Italian hill towns.

If you, too, are itching for such content, the NYT Books section has a new series all about "reading your way through" different cities. The first centers on Paris, which seems like a very good place to start. ❤️

Until next week,
Alisha Ramos (@alisharamos)

P.S. This month, we're donating 1% of revenues to The Loveland Foundation, an organization we're proud to have supported over the years. The Loveland Foundation's Therapy Fund provides financial assistance to Black women and girls seeking therapy nationally. Thanks to you for making this possible.

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This Week's Recommendations

  1. WATCH: Fire Island on Hulu (Bowen Yang fans!). Then queue up co-star Joel Kim Booster's upcoming standup special on Netflix, out June 21st. Have yourself a perfect romance + comedy night.
  2. TRY: Wasting hours making weird AI-generated images and texting them to friends with this thing.  

  3. Andie's new swim collection will have you entering a sun-drenched state of mind, featuring fresh new patterns and colors that evoke the alluring and carefree vibes of Malibu. Shop the collection now: use code BEACHBOUND for 15% off your first order Sponsor 
     
  4. LISTEN: To this podcast episode on how to be an activist without burning out. A quote we love: “Joy is how we gather the energy to go back in, to do the work. Joy is how we remind ourselves what we're fighting for.”
  5. SNACK: On this highly drizzle-able hazelnut-chocolate spread that's made with olive oil, not palm oil. Right now, we're spooning it on walnuts. The end result kinda tastes like Pocky...and it's amazing.

  6. WEAR: These perfect strappy sandals for summer. (Here's an under $100 option.)

  7. TRY: This thing that everyone on the internet is suddenly doingmixing balsamic vinegar and club soda to make a “healthy Coke.” Worth a weekend experiment I guess?!

  8. GET EXCITED FOR: Dakota Johnson and Henry Golding starring in a Jane Austen adaptation? Consider us interested.
  9. LMNT is a tasty electrolyte drink mix with everything you need and nothing you don't. That means a science-backed electrolyte ratio with no sugar, no coloring, no artificial ingredients, or any other junk. GNI readers can get a free gift here with any purchase.  Sponsor 

  10. LISTEN: To an audiobook perfect for celebrating and/or commemorating Juneteenth.

  11. LISTEN: To this podcast rec from reader April: “I had to write in and recommend the literal only podcast I've ever cared about! Ghosthoney's Dream Machine is so soothing to listen to that all through season 1 it became a primary piece of my emotional regulation toolkit. I don't know how to describe it so I'll just include the link.” [Ed note: Here’s some background on um, who exactly Ghosthoney is, in case you, too, have the urge to Google. In summary: a TikTok artist whose brand is “gentle chaos.”]

  12. REMEMBER: What showing up daily actually means. 💗

  13. LAUGH: Sooooo about that whole Ryan Gosling-as-Ken-in-Greta Gerwig’s-adaptation-of-Barbie thing.

This Week's Reads

  1. On influencer creep. (Real Life Mag) — “The mark of influencer creep is the on-edge feeling that you have not done enough for social media platforms: that you can be more on trend, more authentic, more responsive — always more.”

  2. What Does the New Craze For Pet Portraits Say About the Times We Live In? (AIGA Eye on Design) — Suddenly itching to get a portrait of our pup... 🐶

  3. The Numbing Rise of I.P. TV  (The New Yorker) — A great recap of why content and media feels exhausting right now. “His eyes grow wide as he imagines how events that happened in a single day might spawn two TV shows and yet more podcasts. 'So if we found one story a day,' Firstman says, 'we can have eight hundred and seventy years of content every year.'”

  4. Therapists Should Build a New Cultural Competence: ‘Onlineness’ (Wired) — "Without an understanding of online life, the implied burden of explanation and proof would fall accidentally but onerously on the client, at least taking up more (expensive) session time than it should have."

  5. A helpful and downloadable PDF glossary about gender. (The Washington Post)

  6. The end of the millennial lifestyle subsidy. (The Atlantic) — "...if you woke up on a Casper mattress, worked out with a Peloton, Ubered to a WeWork, ordered on DoorDash for lunch, took a Lyft home, and ordered dinner through Postmates only to realize your partner had already started on a Blue Apron meal, your household had, in one day, interacted with eight unprofitable companies that collectively lost about $15 billion in one year." 🥲 

  7. Confessions of A Perpetually Single Woman (ELLE) — "One thing about being unhappily single in your thirties—besides the very real biological and social pressure to reproduce—is everybody thinks there must be a reason why."

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