Reviews with content warning for Rape - Girls Can Kiss Now: Essays

I wasn’t always completely sure on this book. I do enjoy dissecting and intellectualising pop culture but I felt this could have gotten tedious. I really enjoyed the overarching path that the author took in the end. I felt like it added a lot of depth to the book. The writing was funny and engaging. I listened to it as an audio book and having it read by the author really added to my enjoyment of it.

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dizzzybrook's review against another edition

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funny lighthearted reflective fast-paced

3.5

As a queer millennial who grew up chronically online, obsessed with pop culture, music, horror movies, and experienced a lot of the same coming of age type of events that Jill Gutowitz writes about in this collection of essays.. I really enjoyed this. A lot of the lower reviews seem to be coming from Gen Z readers who were not familiar with many of the references or found Jill's writing to be a little "too millennial" but I don't entirely feel like Gen Z was the intended audience of these essays anyway. This book isn't perfect, but I found many of the essay to be deeply relatable, entertaining, and nostalgic. I don't typically read a lot of comedic books, but this worked for me and was a lot of fun

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khmarie's review against another edition

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funny reflective medium-paced

3.5

I went into this sort of blind and did not realize it’s actually basically a memoir, but I still enjoyed it

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emotional funny hopeful reflective fast-paced

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siebensommer's review against another edition

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funny reflective

3.0

i knew that i could never truly be seen by these boys, be respected by these boys, if they didn’t also want me. that was the power i needed to maintain over them.

some fun content and one gut wrenching chapter that comes without a warning in the middle of content about pop culture.
didn’t follow jg before and can only say - high key good for her!!

didn’t love that it felt like the essays didn’t really belong together in one book but were written as single works - meaning i got an explanation of how she met her friend three separate times e.g.

also still find it messed up to be ‘speculating’ abt a celebrity’s sexuality and posting theories as ‘proof’ that that celeb is lying about their personal life and to actually be thinking you are doing an okay thing. the reasoning that TS would greatly profit from coming out is a) not the point and b) maybe not true since she does still have loaaads of hyperchristian fans there and also does more than anything profit from heteronormativity in her fandom
not saying that i wouldn’t 100% love if she came out as a bi queen, just saying that making someone else’s sexuality your business and thinking you’re not as problematic as others who do that… think again pls

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funny hopeful lighthearted medium-paced

4.5

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